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/ 23 October 2009
Mozambique may be poised for elections, but democracy in the country is wasting away, says a political scientist at Eduardo Mondlane University.
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/ 23 October 2009
Professor Chrissie Rey heads a Thrip-funded research project aimed at putting cassava on the map as Africa’s leading subsistence and commercial crop.
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/ 15 October 2009
Daviz Simango, founder of the new political party MDM, has shaken up the traditional two-horse race for Mozambique’s elections in two weeks’ time.
A new study has revealed that Mozambique could supply electricity to a greater percentage of its own population by producing biomass-fired energy
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/ 23 September 2009
Climate change caused the deaths of 10 people in Sierra Leone.
Madagascar’s leaders resumed talks on Tuesday to pick a transitional government mandated with steering the country towards fresh elections.
Madagascar’s rivals will tackle the core of the country’s political deadlock on Thursday as crisis talks resume, a source said.
Drivers in Mozambique faced short supply at petrol stations on Wednesday as price negotiations failed to resolve a deepening fuel crisis.
Mozambique will reimburse petrol station owners for some of the losses suffered on imported fuel, it was reported on Friday.
Mozambique has placed its ports of entry on high alert and officials are looking out for any incidences of swine flu.
Southern African countries have been hit by the worst floods in years, killing more than 100 people and displacing thousands.
Twelve Mozambican prisoners who died in custody this week after being arrested for rioting died of suffocation, officials said on Thursday.
At least 120 people have died from cholera throughout Mozambique since January, Ministry of Health spokesperson Leonardo Chavane said on
Wednesday.
A few steps from a market, two lanterns swung from a pagoda which promises friendship between China and Mozambique will outlast ”heaven and earth”.
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/ 6 February 2009
How one woman’s stilettos got a shocking makeover at a traffic light, as witnessed and described by Skand Felicio.
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/ 23 January 2009
Many Zimbabwean women cross into Mozambique to escape the crisis in their home country, but a growing number turn to commercial sex to survive.
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/ 14 January 2009
Floods in Mozambique have claimed at least 25 lives since December, officials said in reports on Wednesday.
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/ 12 January 2009
Authorities in Mozambique say torrential rains have killed 19 people in the past few days and worse flooding may lie ahead.
At least 10 people have been killed in the heavy rains battering Mozambique since December, the daily paper Noticias reported on Tuesday
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/ 8 December 2008
The man behind the murder in 2000 of prominent Mozambican investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso escaped for the third time from custody on Sunday.
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/ 12 November 2008
The number of deaths from cholera in the central Mozambican rural district of Guru has risen to 53, it was reported on Wednesday.
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/ 6 November 2008
It is already too late to reverse the damage humans have done to the environment, says Mozambican scientist Filipe Lucio.
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/ 3 November 2008
About 40 people ahave died from cholera in Mozambique’s Manica province, amd nine people have died from an outbreak in Harare.
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/ 31 October 2008
Sasol started drilling for hydrocarbons in blocks 16 and 19 offshore Mozambique in partnership with Malaysia’s Petronas earlier this month.
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/ 16 October 2008
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva arrived on Thursday in Mozambique to launch a project to make antiretrovirals in the country.
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/ 12 October 2008
Graca Machel appealed to Mozambique’s schools on Saturday to take more action to prevent children being kidnapped and sold into prostitution.
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/ 22 September 2008
A group of South Africans who were killed in a plane crash in the Mozambican city of Beira were in the country to identify business opportunities.
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/ 14 September 2008
Mozambique’s ruling Frelimo party on Sunday re-nominated sitting President Armando Guebuza as its candidate for the 2009 presidential election.
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/ 5 September 2008
Fires killed at least 32 people and injured hundreds more in blazes that devoured large swathes of arable land in Mozambique, state media said.
Mozambican activists lack the power to intervene on behalf of the most vulnerable, says a report. Bayano Valy investigates.
The Mozambican government is to suspend temporarily customs duties and value-added tax on all imported fuel products.
Mozambican organisations have welcomed the country’s creation of laws to protect victims, but say it is too early to measure their effectiveness.