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/ 29 January 2004
The cholera death toll in Mozambique’s capital, Maputo, since Christmas has risen to 20, health authorities said on Thursday. Deputy national health director Avertino Barreto said about 250 people were being treated daily for the waterborne disease at the Mavalane hospital in the east coast port city.
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/ 13 January 2004
White Zimbabwean commercial farmers have created more than 4 000 jobs in neighbouring Mozambique, where they settled after being ousted from their land back home, a regional governor said on Tuesday. He said there are about 100 Zimbabwean farmers in the fertile districts of Manica province.
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/ 30 December 2003
A sudden storm with winds gusting up to 75kph killed a child, injured 78 people and displaced hundreds of families in the southern Mozambique town of Moamba, state radio reported on Monday. The storm lasted barely 10 minutes on Saturday afternoon, but razed hundreds of flimsy homes.
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/ 13 December 2003
Twenty people went on trial on Friday accused of participating in the 1996 theft of -million from the Mozambique Commercial Bank. The accused include former branch manager Vicente Ramaya, businessman Ayob Abdul Satar and his brother Momade Assife, already in jail for their part in the killing of journalist Carlos Cardoso.
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/ 19 November 2003
Local polling in Mozambique started slowly on Wednesday as voters queued to cast their ballots in the first municipal elections contested by a former rebel group. The Mozambique National Resistance (Renamo) party is participating in local elections for the first time since independence from Portugal in 1975.
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/ 18 November 2003
Mozambicans cast their vote in municipal elections on Wednesday ahead of what is expected to be a tight presidential race next year, but opposition parties say their voters are under-represented since polling will take place mainly in cities.
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/ 5 November 2003
For months, 13-year-old Percilia wandered the streets of Maputo, surviving off scraps of food she begged from strangers or salvaged from garbage cans. Like thousands of other children here, Percilia and her young sister were left to fend for themselves when their parents and older sister died of Aids-related complications.
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/ 3 September 2003
Mozambican children are being smuggled across the border and forced to work as sex slaves in neighbouring South Africa, says a spokesperson for the Southern African Regional Police Chiefs Co-operation Organisation.
The trafficking of children, in effect child slavery, is more widespread in Africa than previously realised, a new study by Unicef has found. Poverty has been the driving force in child slavery, but Aids is also taking its toll.
The head of Mozambique’s state-run election body has said he and his staff have been receiving death threats ahead of local elections due in November.
A Singapore-registered tanker laden with crude oil was in trouble on Friday between Mozambique and Madagascar, say shipping officials.
The one-year-old African Union has rolled up its sleeves, determined to show the world it has the muscle to settle Africa’s crippling disputes.
Libyan leader Moammer Gadaffi told African heads of state at the closing of an African Union (AU) summit in Maputo that Aids was a ”peaceful virus”.
Several hundred journalists covering a summit of the African Union in Maputo were seething Thursday after being barred from the conference venue and cut off from the heads of state and ministers.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan spearheaded calls for peace on the continent at the opening of an African Union (AU) summit in Maputo Thursday, but warned that a rocky road lay ahead.
Leaders in the volatile Great Lakes region lack the political will to bring peace to the region, a European Union (EU) envoy said on the second day of the African Union heads of state summit in Maputo on Friday.
African Union leaders got a wake up call at their summit in Mozambique this week from a cash-strapped member who is muzzled because it is behind on its dues.
South African President Thabo Mbeki sought to inject urgency into the building of the African Union (AU) as the fledgling organisation kicked off its second summit in the Mozambican capital Maputo on Thursday.
Madagascar back in the AU fold
Madagascar, barred from the African Union (AU) inauguration summit last year because of doubts over the legitimacy of its president, has been re-admitted, AU president Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday.
West African nations have agreed to form a peacekeeping force for war-torn Liberia and will send a first contingent in the next two weeks, Ghana’s foreign minister said on Wednesday by telephone from Maputo.
Heads of state opening talks at the African Union (AU) summit on Wednesday night will focus on ways to implement an ambitious plan for the economic recovery of Africa.
Foreign ministers of the African Union (AU) adopted on Tuesday a far-reaching draft protocol on women’s rights, but Egypt and Libya attached reservations.
South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the outgoing chairperson of the African Union’s (AU) executive council on Sunday told her successor, Mozambique’s Leonard Simao, that the Pan African Parliament and the continent’s regional economic blocks were key to the continent’s development prospects.
Southern African nations are entering the modern information age by hammering out policies to coordinate the growth of information and communications technologies (ICT) in their countries.
The Mozambican government has adopted a new strategy to combat the spread of Aids, now focusing on care as well as prevention, Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi said on Friday.
The number two of a former Mozambique rebel movement is to form a political party to contest next year’s presidential and parliamentary elections, the ex peace negotiator said on Friday
Most babies in Mozambique are still denied their ”membership card” to society, because they are not registered at birth, the United Nations’ Children’s Fund, Unicef, said on Monday.
Several Mozambicans, who have never faced trial, have been jailed in the capital’s top security prison for more than four years, prison management said on Wednesday.
A woman claimed on Sunday she was beaten by ten men armed with sticks because she did not stand to attention when their political party’s flag was raised.