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.
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/ 21 January 2010
The head of Mozambique’s national football association said coach Mart Nooij will be fired after the team failed to reach the Afcon quarterfinals.
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/ 14 January 2010
Key southern African leaders gathered in Maputo, Mozambique on Thursday for a special summit on the political crises in Zimbabwe and Madagascar.
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/ 14 January 2010
Key Southern African leaders will hold a special summit on Thursday to discuss the crisis in Madagascar and the power-sharing government in Zimbabwe.
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/ 12 January 2010
A member of Mozambique’s Parliament says most of the main opposition party’s politicians boycotted a swearing-in ceremony.
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/ 7 December 2009
Mozambique’s Constitutional Council has dismissed allegations by opposition party Renamo of voting rigging in elections which the ruling Frelimo won.
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/ 17 November 2009
Mozambique’s main opposition party, Renamo, on Tuesday rejected the election victory of President Armando Guebuza, saying a fresh poll must be held.
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/ 11 November 2009
Mozambique’s President Armando Guebuza won a landslide re-election with 75% of the vote, election officials said on Wednesday.
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/ 6 November 2009
Mozambique’s ruling party has taken more than two-thirds of the seats in parliament since 1975, writes Henrik Lomholt Rasmussen.
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/ 31 October 2009
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza’s party on Friday held a firm lead in parliamentary poll results in the country’s fourth democratic elections.
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/ 30 October 2009
Support for Frelimo, Mozambique’s ruling party since independence in 1975, was the issue when about 9,5-million voters went to the polls on Wednesday.
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/ 29 October 2009
Mozambique’s ruling party enjoyed a firm lead in early election returns on Thursday, local media said.
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/ 29 October 2009
Voting ended on Wednesday in Mozambique’s fourth democratic election, with the ruling party set to cement its 34-year rule.
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/ 28 October 2009
Mozambicans voted in presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections on Wednesday, with President Armando Guebuza expected to retain power.
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/ 28 October 2009
Mozambique’s effort to become the first of the world’s major mine-contaminated countries to be declared mine-free is faltering on the home straight.
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/ 28 October 2009
Voting began in Mozambique’s elections on Wednesday, with President Armando Guebuza expected to retain power.
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/ 27 October 2009
As Mozambique heads to the polls on Wednesday, the ruling party looks set for an easy victory over an opposition battered by a recent split.
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/ 26 October 2009
After South Africa, Malawi and Botswana the 2009 Southern Africa election express rolls into the region’s rising star, Mozambique, this week.
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/ 25 October 2009
Mozambique’s political parties prepared their final push for votes on Sunday, the last day of campaigning for Wednesday’s elections.
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/ 23 October 2009
New evidence suggests that a South African business has muscled into the plundering of diamond fields in eastern Zimbabwe.