Mozambique is seeking funding to build a toll road to link its southern tourist province of Inhambane with South Africa and Zimbabwe, a government official said on Tuesday.
Angry villagers in Mozambique have killed a dozen people suspected of being witches after a killing spree by man-eating lions, police said on Monday.
A senior member of Mozambique’s ruling party has been placed in 10-day quarantine after returning home from China, the country worst-hit by the Sars epidemic.
Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano has dismissed recent allegations that he played a role in the death of the country’s first president, killed in a plane crash 17 years ago.
Mozambique’s parliament on Friday ratified the International Labour Organisation’s Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention.
Mozambique’s economy grew by eight percent in 2002, despite a severe drought that ravaged southern and central districts of the country, President Joaquim Chissano said on Thursday.
Visibly traumatised, Antonio Manuel (10) goes to Mahele primary school, a remote part of Maputo province, where the Mozambican capital, Maputo, is situated. Manuel, a shy boy, uses both his hands to hold a pencil as he writes in the exercise book.
Zimbabwean truck drivers who frequent prostitutes when they work in neighbouring Mozambique are at high risk of catching the deadly virus that causes Aids because they are ”forced” to have unprotected sex, state television reported Friday.
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/ 13 February 2003
A Maputo judge refused Wednesday to grant a retrial to a man he tried and convicted in absentia for his part in the murder of Mozambican investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso.
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/ 5 February 2003
The Maputo City Court was due to deliver its verdict on January 31 in the case of the six men accused of murdering Mozambique’s foremost investigative journalist, Carlos Cardoso, in November 2000. Carlitos Rashid and Manuel Fernandes, have confessed to their part in the murder.
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/ 2 February 2003
Mozambicans have hailed a court here for sentencing six men to long jail terms for murdering a top investigative reporter, saying the verdict will restore confidence in the country’s judicial system.
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/ 31 January 2003
A court in Mozambique on Friday sentenced six men accused of murdering a prominent investigative journalist to between 23 and 28 years in prison.
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/ 14 January 2003
A Mozambican judge said he would give a verdict on January 31 in the high profile murder trial of the country’s top investigative journalist, state radio said on Tuesday.
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/ 13 December 2002
At the heart of the trial of six men charged with murdering Mozambican investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso are seven cheques signed by businessman Nyimpine Chissano, the eldest son of President Joaquim Chissano.
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/ 12 December 2002
Dozens of armed police on Thursday stormed Mozambique’s Parliament to try to restore order after opposition lawmakers brought business to a halt for the second day running.
Small opposition parties in Mozambique have complained that they are being deliberately squeezed from parliament by the country’s two major political forces.
THE Mozambique government on Wednesday announced it had approved a new minerals exploration project in southern Mozambique.
Zimbabwe Foreign Minister Stan Mudenge said on Thursday the government wants Britain to compensate white farmers in the southern African country for land seized under a contentious land reform programme.
The leaders of three southern African countries are due to sign a treaty that will bring into existence the world’s largest game park, the 95 000-square-kilometre, cross-border Great Limpopo National Park.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi arrived in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, by road from neighbouring Swaziland on Sunday, on the third stage of a journey through southern Africa.
At least 48 people have died in a fresh outbreak of cholera that has infected about 3 000 people in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province.
Mozambique needs more than 70 000 tons of food aid for over half a million people affected by drought in the south and centre of the country, authorities said Thursday.
South African Airways (SAA) and Mozambique’s national carrier Linhas Aereas de Mocambique (LAM) have signed a code-sharing agreement that will allow joint bookings and extend each airline’s reach on the continent.
Mozambique is seeking a buyer for a 51% stake in the national airline Linhas Aereas de Mocambique (LAM), a government official said on Monday.
The Mozambique government plans to scout inside Europe for investors in a giant hydro-electrical dam it wants to build, a cabinet minister said Thursday.
Authorities in Mozambique and Zimbabwe have launched a probe into claims by provincial authorities that Zimbabwean commercial and peasant farmers were seizing arable land along the border with Mozambique.
Mozambique, suffering from a withering hunger crisis, may reject future food donations that contain genetically modified corn.
At least 195 people were killed when a train overturned outside the Mozambican capital, where hospitals were scrambling to find doctors and blood supplies to treat the more than 160 injured.
The man charged with killing Mozambican investigative reporter Carlos Cardoso told a court on Monday that the murder was ordered by the eldest son of President Joaquim Chissano.
A high-profile, -million banking scam in Mozambique has landed 17 bank employees and prominent businessmen in court, six years after the crime took place.
The worst rail disaster in Mozambique’s history occurred after a railroad worker unsuccessfully used four large stones to keep a packed passenger train from sliding down a hill.
The European Union on Thursday signed an agreement with the Southern African Development Community at a meeting here, granting 101-million euros to the region over the next five years.