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More than 500 000 people in two provinces of Mozambique would need food aid until next year, according to a special report released on Tuesday by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation and the World Food Programme. The report said that the 515 000 people were from 43 districts of the southern and central regions […]

Mozambique’s Transport Minister Tomas Salomao said 106 deaths have been confirmed in a train wreck outside the capital Maputo on Saturday, revising downward an earlier death toll of 150.

Jane Flanagan |Chimoio, Mozambique Home for Johan and Kirsty Fourie is a leaking tent, two hours’ drive down a potholed dirt track in war-ravaged Mozambique. They have no electricity, their toilet is a hole in the ground and their water supply is a walk away in a field pitted by landmines. Even this, they say, […]

RUSSIA plans to cancel more than half of Mozambique’s debt according to an agreement signed between the two countries, the Mozambique News Agency reported on Wednesday. According to the agreement, the forgiven debt would be earmarked for poverty alleviation programs in this southern African country – one of the nation’s poorest countries. Some $300-million of […]

A new political party was announced Tuesday led by a former medical doctor turned politician. The Congress of United Democrats founded by Antonio Palange who was formerly served as a deputy in parliament. “My party joins other political parties in an effort to bring democracy in our country”, Palange told reporters. Palange formerly served as […]

A CHOLERA epidemic in eight of Mozambique’s 11 provinces had infected 11 527 people and killed 159, health officials said. The epidemic began in August in the central Zambezia province, where more than half the deaths had been recorded, Avertino Barreto, the deputy national director of health, told state radio on Wednesday. In the town […]

Maputo | Tuesday AS forecasters warned of possible heavy rainfall, the government in Mozambique said it was pre-positioning food supplies as part of a 24-million-dollar program aimed at avoiding a repeat of the flooding disaster which killed some 700 people in 2000. The scheme, funded by both the government and foreign donors, will place basic […]

The organisation representing members of Mozambique’s ailing cashew nut processing industry wants the World Bank to help it out of difficulties it claims were caused by the Bank’s liberalisation policy.

Following in the footsteps of Uganda, Mozambique is now being heralded as a "star pupil" of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).