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.
Mozambique’s business sector is currently feeling the consequences of HIV/Aids through the increased absence of workers.
In Maputo, Bayano Valy finds a range of explanations for the attacks on foreigners in South Africa.
The spread of HIV in Mozambique has hit the economy and is heightening poverty, the United Nations chief representative in the country said on Friday.
Mozambique has received nearly 20Â 000 citizens fleeing South Africa, said Deputy Foreign Minister Henrique Banze, adding that the government there had set up three reception centres around the capital Maputo. He denied reports that the Mozambican government had declared a state of emergency.
Mozambican authorities have ordered tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes in the Limpopo River valley near Kruger National Park after one of the floodgates on a dam on the river broke. The breakage, which occurred despite recent repairs on the dam, comes as it fills to unseasonally high levels.
Mozambique said on Friday it had beefed up security at South Africa’s embassy in Maputo to prevent any retaliation over the xenophobic violence that has engulfed Johannesburg townships. ”We are taking measures to prevent retaliatory action by furious Mozambicans,” police spokesperson Arnaldo Chefo said.
Mother-of-two Nyasha, desperate to put food on the table for her family back home in Zimbabwe, turned to sex work in neighbouring Mozambique after being told that it was a surefire way of earning United States dollars. "The money is little, but if I save it properly I will be able to send groceries that will sustain my family for some days," said the 23-year-old.
Mozambique’s power utility Cahora Bassa Hydro Electric (HCB) plans to boost power output from the Cahora Bassa Dam by up to 1 000 megawatts in order to meet local and regional power demands. A new study will seek to evaluate the dam’s potential to increase output, said HCB CEO Paulo Muxanga on Saturday.
The African Development Bank (ADB) has lent -million to fund Eskom’s multibillion-dollar expansion project, and to help the power-starved country achieve 6% economic growth from 2010, the bank said on Wednesday. Eskom is battling to shore up electricity supplies due an economic boom that has boosted demand.
Africa’s economy will grow by 6% this year and next, an acceleration from 2007, owing to high oil prices and demand for commodities, research from the African Development Bank (ADB) showed on Monday. The joint research was released ahead of the ADB’s annual meeting, which starts in Maputo, Mozambique, on Wednesday.
Zimbabwe has paid back 000 in arrears to the African Development Bank (ADB), despite vast economic problems at home, as part of efforts to meet commitments to donors, the bank said on Monday. ”Zimbabwe has in all paid 000 to the bank group despite numerous economic challenges,” the bank said.
Taurai Chimombe queues up patiently for the chance to land a job as a mineworker in Mozambique — a far cry from his dreams of running his own business back home in his Zimbabwean homeland. ”As long as I’ve got a contract I will be here,” says the 24-year-old.
Mozambican police on Wednesday denied recent accusations by Amnesty International of having a ”mandate to kill” in regard to policing the country. Police spokesperson First Deputy Police Commissioner Carlos Rungo said that accusations of the police killing and torturing citizens with near total impunity were completely untrue.