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.
Mozambique and Tanzania opened a bridge that will allow the first road traffic between the countries, it was reported on Thursday.
Efforts to demine Mozambique have dragged on for years, but a recent cash injection means it may be free of old explosives by 2014.
The war in Mozambique may have ended 18 years ago, but its legacy lives on in the classrooms of rural schools in Zambezia province.
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.
Sean Christie headed to Mozambique to follow up rumours of Portuguese sabotage. What he found was an impressive clean up of Beira’s disused sewers.
About 130 000 people are to be evacuated in flood-prone Mozambique because of rising waters in three main rivers, state media said on Wednesday.