Mozambique’s government is considering a proposal by a group of United States businessmen to build a ,3-billion oil refinery in the Southern African country. The proposed refinery at Nacala would be the first of its kind in Mozambique, which has relied entirely on imports of oil products.
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/ 19 February 2007
Mozambique’s national disaster agency, already struggling to get food and clean water to thousands of victims of flooding, warned on Monday the worst could be yet to come as the rainy season gets under way. Paulo Zucula, the country’s top disaster official, said there was only one helicopter working to bring relief supplies to people stranded in isolated evacuation centres.
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/ 13 February 2007
The United Nations’ World Food Programme started handing out food aid on Tuesday to about 6 000 flood-hit Mozambicans and said their needs could become more desperate. Officials said the flooding of the Zambezi river had compounded food woes in the Southern African country where thousands were already in need of aid.
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/ 23 January 2007
Flooding has killed at least 44 people and forced thousands of others in Angola and Mozambique to flee their homes, officials in the Southern African nations said on Tuesday. Most of the deaths occurred in and around Angola’s capital, Luanda, which was pelted by torrential rains last week.
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/ 20 January 2007
Foreign powers cannot "impose" political or economic solutions on Zimbabwe even though the deepening crisis in the African nation threatens to destabilise its neighbours, a senior Mozambique official said on Friday. "Each time you try to impose a solution from the outside, the results most of the time are not what we like," said Henrique Banze, Mozambique’s Deputy Foreign Minister.