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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/ 25 February 2008
Prudent fiscal and monetary policies during 2007 have kept inflation under control in Mozambique, the International Monetary Fund said in a statement on Monday. ”We congratulate the Mozambican authorities on their strong commitment to sound economic policies and for an impressive economic track record over the last years.
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/ 21 February 2008
Inefficiency at one of the border posts between South Africa and Mozambique is a key constraint to accelerated growth of trade and investment between the two countries, the Maputo Corridor Links Initiative (MCLI) said on Thursday. MCLI chief operating officer Barbara Mommen said delays in the movement of cargo through the Lebombo/Ressano Garcia border post was costly
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/ 18 February 2008
An intense tropical cyclone is threatening to strike already flood-hit Mozambique on Tuesday, the country’s National Meteorological Institute (Inam) said on Monday. Inam said in a statement Cyclone Ivan, a category-four storm, had strengthened over the Indian Ocean and was likely to cause damage when it reached the coast.
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/ 12 February 2008
Thousands of Mozambicans have clashed with police in another wave of protests over the rising cost of living in the booming but impoverished Southern African nation, state-owned radio reported. Maputo was rocked by street demonstrations last week that saw angry crowds loot shops, destroy vehicles and burn electricity poles.
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/ 8 February 2008
The rapid spread of HIV/Aids is posing a huge threat to Mozambique’s future growth and the sustainability of its poverty-reduction programmes, according to a World Bank report. The report, published in January, noted that the high costs of procuring medicines and caring for those with the disease was plunging most families further into poverty.
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/ 7 February 2008
The Mozambican government announced on Wednesday that it was scrapping a planned increase in bus fares as the death toll from riots sparked by the price hikes rose to three. Calm had returned to the streets of Maputo on Thursday after the riots, which residents said were the most serious since 1975.
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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.
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/ 1 February 2008
Mozambique’s poverty-alleviation programme this week received a boost following the approval of a further -million loan by the World Bank. ”The council of executive directors of the World Bank has approved a credit for the International Development Association to the value of -million,” the bank said in Maputo on Friday.
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/ 29 January 2008
At least 15 000 children under the age of five have been displaced by the torrential floods in Mozambique, a global agency working with children said on Wednesday. ”In most disasters, including these floods, children tend to suffer the most,” said Unicef spokesperson Thierry Delvigne-Jean.
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/ 29 January 2008
After rain comes sunshine — if you’re willing to seize the chance of a new life. Mozambique is trying to convince tens of thousands of people in low-lying areas who fall victim each year to floods during the summer rainy season to permanently resettle on higher ground.
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/ 24 January 2008
Southern Africa must improve its warning systems in order to minimise the impact of the flooding that has displaced tens of thousands of people in the region since December, a senior official has warned. Tomaz Salomao, executive secretary of the 14-nation Southern African Development Community, was speaking after a tour of flood-hit districts.
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/ 22 January 2008
The United Nations World Food Programme has begun flying in food and shelter to thousands of victims of heavy flooding in Mozambique, the agency said on Tuesday. More than two tonnes of mosquito nets, tents and plastic sheeting were flown in by helicopter on Monday to the Mutarara region, while the first deliveries of food were expected to be made on Tuesday.
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/ 19 January 2008
Thousands of people in Mozambique were still trapped in their homes by rising flood waters on Friday as heavy rains continued to pound Southern Africa, heightening fears of a particularly severe flood season. In Zambia, a Care worker said water levels in the south were twice as high as the same time last year.
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/ 17 January 2008
Floods in Southern Africa have killed about 45 people in a growing humanitarian crisis that has engulfed the region and brought renewed appeals for Western financial help. Heavy rains have caused rivers in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi to burst, killing three people in Malawi since Friday and forcing hundreds of others to flee.
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/ 14 January 2008
Several people have died while 70 000 others were displaced by floods in central Mozambique and the situation is expected to worsen till mid-February, the National Institute of Natural Disaster Management said on Monday.
The United Nations said on Monday it will take urgent measures to help victims of deadly floods in central Mozambique that have driven thousands from their homes. The floods, fed by heavy rains from Zambia and Zimbabwe, have killed six people and cut major transport links to neighbouring countries.
At least 1 000 families have had no communication with the outside world since last Thursday after their homes became isolated by rising water levels in the flood-hit province of Mozambican Manica, state radio reported on Wednesday. Manica provincial governor Maurice Viera said that intense rains had resulted in the displacement of more than 900 families.
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/ 14 December 2007
More than 50% of Mozambique’s national budget for 2008 will be made up of a financial injection from foreign donors, the Friday edition of Daily Investor Intelligence reported. Manuel Chang, Finance Minister, said that 56% of the 89-billion meticais (about ,5-billion) will be secured from international donors.
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/ 27 November 2007
Mozambique on Tuesday formally took over from Portugal the control of Cahora Bassa hydroelectric dam, Africa’s second most important after that of Aswan in Egypt. ”The control of the dam signifies for us the elimination of the last vestiges of European colonialism in Africa,” Mozambican President Armando Guebuza said before a crowd of 10 000 people.
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/ 27 November 2007
Health authorities in the central Zambezia province in Mozambique were on high alert after the deaths last week of two people out of more than 20 reported cases of cholera, the daily Noticias reported on Tuesday. In October this year health authorities reported the death of two people in the same province while another six were hospitalised in the same district.
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/ 25 November 2007
Mozambique will finally take control this week of the biggest dam in sub-Saharan Africa, which had remained in Portuguese hands for more than three decades after the former colonial power’s departure. ”We are finally going to be able to use the dam to satisfy the energy needs of our country,” said President Armando Guebuza.
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/ 19 November 2007
The eldest son of former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano has died while under investigation for possible involvement in the 2000 murder of a journalist, state radio reported on Monday. Nympine Chissano (37) was found dead on Monday in his home in the capital Maputo.
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/ 9 November 2007
Mozambique is among Southern and East African countries that will benefit from new, -million energy projects. The United Nations Environment Programme said in a press release issued on Thursday that the projects will use tea and sugar residues to generate energy.
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/ 30 October 2007
A teenage girl fights back tears as she recalls how the teacher she had regarded as her mentor demanded sexual favours after class at her Mozambican high school. "This teacher, who had been very kind to me and had told me that I was very intelligent, asked me to come round to his home so he could give me a book," says 16-year-old Regina.
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/ 26 October 2007
The Mozambican government set itself a new five-year target on Friday to remove all the landmines that still litter the country, 15 years after its long-running civil war. Luis Mondlane, a senior official in the national demining institute, said the government would need about -million to fund a new programme to get rid of all unexploded ordnance by 2012.
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/ 22 October 2007
The Mozambican national railways company continues to lose steel from its lines. Radio Mozambique reported on Monday that the Xai Xai-to-Manjacaze railway line had been stripped of railway line steel and safety clips worth more than -million since the beginning of the year.
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/ 19 October 2007
Mozambican authorities need to continue to seek the truth on who killed Samora Machel, the country’s first president, almost 21 years ago. The call was made by Feliciano Gundana, Minister for the Affairs of Former Combatants on Friday when he was speaking on Radio Mozambique’s Café da Manha.
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/ 27 September 2007
Mozambique will not attend the forthcoming European Union-African Union summit if Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is excluded, Radio Mozambique reported on Wednesday. Mugabe is barred from travelling to most European countries in terms of sanctions imposed on the Southern African country.
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/ 24 September 2007
A -million diesel and petrol pipeline linking the Mozambican capital, Maputo, with neighbouring South Africa will be in operation by the end of 2009, an official with the company overseeing the project said on Monday. ”We will start building it in mid-2008 and it will be ready by 2009,” said an executive with pipeline firm Petroline.
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/ 24 September 2007
Southern African nations on Monday lined up behind Robert Mugabe in a row over whether the Zimbabwean President would be invited to a European Union-Africa summit in December, saying they would boycott the event if he was banned. The meeting in Lisbon would be the first in seven years.
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/ 20 September 2007
Demining in Mozambique will soon get a boost with the arrival of more specially trained rats, local reports said on Thursday. Radio Mozambique said the international demining company Apopo will soon receive an additional 15 demining rats to add to its current furry workforce of 25.