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/ 29 November 2010
Rapid growth in the war-torn Mozambican region is testimony to the power of foreign direct investment.
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/ 25 November 2010
South African farmers are eager to invest in Mozambique and provide affordable food, farmers said at an agricultural conference.
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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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/ 16 November 2010
A group of Brazilian businesses on a visit to Mozambique have pledged to invest up to $500-million in the country.
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/ 7 November 2010
Waving his index finger into the balmy heat, the taxi driver barely pauses while driving through the hub of international diamond dealers.
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/ 29 October 2010
President Jacob Zuma on Friday vowed to strengthen regional efforts to crack down on rhino poaching, including calling in Interpol.
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/ 25 September 2010
BHP Billiton is complicating public access to documents about a planned filter shutdown at its Mozambican aluminium smelter, an activist has alleged.
Vodacom group subsidiary Vodacom Mozambique suspended its clients’ SMSing capabilities under orders of the Mozambican government.
Troops fire on citizens protesting against the cost of essentials and a lack of accountability.
Mozambique will reverse an increase in the price of bread that sparked deadly rioting last week, and restore some subsidies for electricity and water.
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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.
Mozambique police kept a close watch over the capital Maputo on Saturday after three days of riots over food and fuel price hikes.
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/ 4 September 2010
After violence in Africa and protests in Egypt, Serbia and Pakistan, the United Nations are to urge action on the rising cost of food.
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/ 3 September 2010
Calm returned to the capital of Mozambique on Friday following two days of protests over food and fuel prices that left seven people dead.
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.
The South African government has closed its embassy in Mozambique following violent riots in the capital Maputo.
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.
A company has discovered offshore oil deposits in Mozambique, but studies are still under way to determine if they are commercially viable.
Since its civil war ended in 1992, the country has spent billions of dollars to build and repair roads, enlarge harbours and rehabilitate railways.
Almost 12% of the Mozambican population is living with HIV/Aids, a government survey released on Monday said.
Mohamed Bachir Suleman is beginning to feel the consequences being on the US Treasury Department’s list of drug barons, the so-called Kingpin Act.
Mozambican newspaper <i>Canalmoz</i> on Wednesday retracted a story about human trafficking at the Komatipoort border.
Mozambican police authorities on Tuesday denied a news report that about 20 trafficked minors had been discovered on the border with South Africa.
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.
Mozambique had a mixed World Cup vibe hours before kick-off in SA on Friday. A few cars bore the colours of the SA flag, and some wore Bafana jerseys.
Mozambican police on Tuesday emphatically denied the existence of terrorist training camps in the country following claims published in a newspaper.
South African transport officials will brief their SADC counterparts on transport arrangements for the World Cup during talks in Mozambique.
A crime wave against foreign tourists in Mozambique has raised concerns about security at its normally idyllic Indian Ocean resorts.