A tropical cyclone hit northern and central Mozambique on Saturday, destroying homes and cutting power lines, state media reported. Cyclone Jokwe lashed central Mozambique before hitting the northern coastal province of Nampula, travelling with winds of up to 130km/h, Radio Mozambique said. No casualties have been reported and the extent of the damage is not yet known.
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/ 6 February 2008
Mozambican authorities warned on Tuesday that flooding will worsen in Southern Africa when a major dam on its borders opens its floodgates and Namibia counts the toll of floods in its northern areas. The Kariba Dam, on Mozambique’s border with Zambia and Zimbabwe, is expected have at least one of its floodgates opened on Monday.
A court on Thursday denied parental rights to the father of a girl who became a symbol of Mozambican hope after being born in a tree during the devastating floods of 2000. The Chibuto District Court ruled that her father, Salvador Mabuiango, had cheated her by selling off goods donated to her after her birth.
The death toll from blasts at a military armoury in Mozambique’s capital Maputo triggered by high temperatures had risen to 72, Health Minister Ivo Paulo Garido said on Friday. The blasts began on Thursday. President Armando Guebuza called off a visit to South Africa on Friday because of the disaster.
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/ 12 February 2007
Soldiers and relief workers using helicopters and canoes have evacuated about 60 000 people from the flooded Zambezi River Valley in central Mozambique, where more than 100 000 others are at risk, officials said on Monday.
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/ 18 January 2007
Torrential rains have destroyed more than 1 000 houses, leaving more than 6 000 people homeless in northern Mozambique, officials said on Thursday. A statement by the government’s relief agency said 13 classrooms have also been swept away by the rain, and a further 150 houses are at risk of collapse.
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/ 2 November 2006
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Wednesday hailed Portugal’s transfer of control of a huge hydroelectric plant to its former colony as the end of ”the final redoubt of foreign domination”. Guebuza signed an agreement with Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates late on Tuesday to buy 82% of shares in the Cahora Bassa dam on the Zambezi river.
Storms and flooding have killed at least 13 people in the central Mozambique province of Sofala since torrential rains hit Southern Africa last week, state-run radio reported on Tuesday. Eight of the victims were struck by lightning and five drowned in floods unleashed by the storms, Radio Mozambique reported.
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/ 2 December 2005
A man accused of masterminding the killing of Mozambique’s leading investigative journalist went on trial on Thursday after twice escaping from jail. Anibal Dos Santos Junior, known here as Anibazinho, was convicted in 2003 of murdering Carlos Cardoso and sentenced to 28 years in prison.
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/ 30 October 2005
Mozambique’s livestock authorities announced a ban on Saturday on poultry imports from several European countries that have reported cases of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. A ban already in place on imports from Asia will be extended to cover several countries in Europe.