Outgoing President Filipe Nyusi’s Frelimo party has held power since independence from Portugal in 1975
The Mozambican capital urgently needs adaptation strategies to deal with climate change-related issues
Armando Guebuza gave evidence in a corruption trial that has transfixed the nation
A new report by the International Crisis Group examines the ongoing insurgency in northern Mozambique and looks at what needs to be done to stop it. The group’s Horn of Africa researcher, Meron Elias, answers key questions about the conflict
A humanitarian crisis looms as a violent insurgency continues to sweep over northern Mozambique. As many flee to safety, the question remains: who, or what, fuels the fire?
Impunity for the perpetrators has analysts worried that the trend of kidnapping businesspeople in Mozambique may grow
One of Mozambique’s most senior journalists escaped a kidnapping attempt in Maputo on New Year’s Eve. Matias Guente, the executive editor of Canal de Moçambique, was accosted in the afternoon of December 31 by three men while in the capital’s Alto Maé area, right behind the headquarters of the Mozambique Defence Armed Forces. The men […]
The leaders of Renamo and Frelimo hail the ‘new era’ ending clashes between the two since 2013
Dimitri Tsafendas, the man who killed the architect of apartheid, was an enigmatic ‘revolutionary’ with a ‘deep social conscience’
Border-hopping Fifi the Raiblaster and Mr Freddy experience the lows and highs that disparate audiences can bring
The capital city of Mozambique is steeped in history, cool music, vibey clubs, great seafood and local beer
Despite the country’s emerging debt debacle, its gas reserves are cooking.
It is within easy reach of many South Africans and offers a fantastic other kind of experience.
Infrastructure is abysmal in Maputo, toilets stink, events start late but the cultural scene is lively and diverse, writes Mercedes Sayagues.
Less than two decades ago, Maputo was war-torn and struggling to survive. Today it is one of Southern Africa’s hippest cities.
Mara Kardas-Nelson ate and drank and walked her way through a gloriously hot, sticky and beautifully unhurried mess.
The SADC summit in Maputo, Mozambique, this month will consider approving the regional infrastructure development master plan.
Mozambique’s long-cherished special place for weddings has had a respectable makeover and the capital’s residents are overjoyed.
Mozambicans see Mohamed Bachir Suleman’s glitzy shopping mall as a symbol of a modern future for their impoverished country.
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/ 23 December 2010
South Africans and Mozambicans, gathered in Maputo to give feedback on a pilot exchange programme of volunteers between the two countries.
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/ 22 November 2010
The only place in the world where the East German flag still flies is on the streets of Maputo.
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/ 16 November 2010
Mozambican NGOs have reported mining giant BHP Billiton to the JSE’s Socially Responsible Investment Index for it’s planned pollution.
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/ 7 September 2010
Deadly protests that paralysed Mozambique’s capital last week were spurred by an SMS in Maputo, signalling the power of new technology.
Mozambican police on Monday deployed across impoverished neighbourhoods in Maputo to prevent fresh protests over food prices.
It has been a summer of record temperatures — Japan had its hottest summer on record, as did South Florida and New York.
Demonstrators blocked roads with burning tyres and looted shops in Maputo on Thursday as riots sparked by soaring bread prices entered a second day.
Police in Maputo opened fire on stone-throwing mobs protesting against rising prices food and other resources on Wednesday, killing seven people.
At least two children have been shot dead in clashes between police and rioters in and around Maputo on Wednesday in rallies over rising prices.
Maputo is awash with glimpses of decaying colonial grandeur, observes <b>David Smith</b> during a recent visit.
In life, as in art, it is hard to beat those brilliantly lit shafts of emotion that shine through the fog of daily stuff and nonsense.
A bomb blast near the South African Airways office in Maputo was aimed at the wife and children of a Pakistani businessman, a media report said.
An explosion damaged a building in which South African Airways offices are located in Maputo, Mozambique, on Tuesday.