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/ 27 January 2008
At least 1 600 families have refused to abandon their flooded homes in the central Sofala province district of Machanga. Radio Mozambique said that authorities in the district — which is located near the Save River — had reported that the affected families were refusing to be relocated to higher ground.
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/ 24 January 2008
Southern Africa must improve its warning systems in order to minimise the impact of the flooding that has displaced tens of thousands of people in the region since December, a senior official has warned. Tomaz Salomao, executive secretary of the 14-nation Southern African Development Community, was speaking after a tour of flood-hit districts.
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/ 22 January 2008
The United Nations World Food Programme has begun flying in food and shelter to thousands of victims of heavy flooding in Mozambique, the agency said on Tuesday. More than two tonnes of mosquito nets, tents and plastic sheeting were flown in by helicopter on Monday to the Mutarara region, while the first deliveries of food were expected to be made on Tuesday.
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/ 19 January 2008
Thousands of people in Mozambique were still trapped in their homes by rising flood waters on Friday as heavy rains continued to pound Southern Africa, heightening fears of a particularly severe flood season. In Zambia, a Care worker said water levels in the south were twice as high as the same time last year.
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/ 17 January 2008
Floods in Southern Africa have killed about 45 people in a growing humanitarian crisis that has engulfed the region and brought renewed appeals for Western financial help. Heavy rains have caused rivers in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi to burst, killing three people in Malawi since Friday and forcing hundreds of others to flee.
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/ 14 January 2008
Several people have died while 70Â 000 others were displaced by floods in central Mozambique and the situation is expected to worsen till mid-February, the National Institute of Natural Disaster Management said on Monday.
The United Nations said on Monday it will take urgent measures to help victims of deadly floods in central Mozambique that have driven thousands from their homes. The floods, fed by heavy rains from Zambia and Zimbabwe, have killed six people and cut major transport links to neighbouring countries.
At least 1 000 families have had no communication with the outside world since last Thursday after their homes became isolated by rising water levels in the flood-hit province of Mozambican Manica, state radio reported on Wednesday. Manica provincial governor Maurice Viera said that intense rains had resulted in the displacement of more than 900 families.
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/ 21 December 2007
Water levels in the Pungue, Save and Buzi rivers were rising at alarming levels after intensive rain hit Mozambique’s central provinces and neighbouring Zimbabwe, state media reported on Friday. Extensive portions of soil from fields had been washed away and most parts were flooded.
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/ 14 December 2007
More than 50% of Mozambique’s national budget for 2008 will be made up of a financial injection from foreign donors, the Friday edition of Daily Investor Intelligence reported. Manuel Chang, Finance Minister, said that 56% of the 89-billion meticais (about ,5-billion) will be secured from international donors.
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/ 27 November 2007
Mozambique on Tuesday formally took over from Portugal the control of Cahora Bassa hydroelectric dam, Africa’s second most important after that of Aswan in Egypt. ”The control of the dam signifies for us the elimination of the last vestiges of European colonialism in Africa,” Mozambican President Armando Guebuza said before a crowd of 10 000 people.
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/ 27 November 2007
Health authorities in the central Zambezia province in Mozambique were on high alert after the deaths last week of two people out of more than 20 reported cases of cholera, the daily Noticias reported on Tuesday. In October this year health authorities reported the death of two people in the same province while another six were hospitalised in the same district.
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/ 25 November 2007
Mozambique will finally take control this week of the biggest dam in sub-Saharan Africa, which had remained in Portuguese hands for more than three decades after the former colonial power’s departure. ”We are finally going to be able to use the dam to satisfy the energy needs of our country,” said President Armando Guebuza.
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/ 19 November 2007
The eldest son of former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano has died while under investigation for possible involvement in the 2000 murder of a journalist, state radio reported on Monday. Nympine Chissano (37) was found dead on Monday in his home in the capital Maputo.
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/ 9 November 2007
Mozambique is among Southern and East African countries that will benefit from new, -million energy projects. The United Nations Environment Programme said in a press release issued on Thursday that the projects will use tea and sugar residues to generate energy.
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/ 30 October 2007
A teenage girl fights back tears as she recalls how the teacher she had regarded as her mentor demanded sexual favours after class at her Mozambican high school. "This teacher, who had been very kind to me and had told me that I was very intelligent, asked me to come round to his home so he could give me a book," says 16-year-old Regina.
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/ 29 October 2007
A pride of lions is causing panic in the rural district of Barue in Mozambique, official radio reported on Monday. An environmental inspector from a government department was injured by one of the lions killed in a government approved operation last week.
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/ 26 October 2007
The Mozambican government set itself a new five-year target on Friday to remove all the landmines that still litter the country, 15 years after its long-running civil war. Luis Mondlane, a senior official in the national demining institute, said the government would need about -million to fund a new programme to get rid of all unexploded ordnance by 2012.
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/ 22 October 2007
The Mozambican national railways company continues to lose steel from its lines. Radio Mozambique reported on Monday that the Xai Xai-to-Manjacaze railway line had been stripped of railway line steel and safety clips worth more than -million since the beginning of the year.
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/ 19 October 2007
Mozambican authorities need to continue to seek the truth on who killed Samora Machel, the country’s first president, almost 21 years ago. The call was made by Feliciano Gundana, Minister for the Affairs of Former Combatants on Friday when he was speaking on Radio Mozambique’s Café da Manha.
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/ 19 October 2007
Mozambique’s President Armando Guebuza will officially open the country’s second biggest investment project on Friday. Radio Mozambique said in a report that Guebuza would open the -million Moma heavy sands project located in the Moma district of Nampula.
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/ 27 September 2007
Mozambique will not attend the forthcoming European Union-African Union summit if Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is excluded, Radio Mozambique reported on Wednesday. Mugabe is barred from travelling to most European countries in terms of sanctions imposed on the Southern African country.
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/ 24 September 2007
A -million diesel and petrol pipeline linking the Mozambican capital, Maputo, with neighbouring South Africa will be in operation by the end of 2009, an official with the company overseeing the project said on Monday. ”We will start building it in mid-2008 and it will be ready by 2009,” said an executive with pipeline firm Petroline.
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/ 24 September 2007
Southern African nations on Monday lined up behind Robert Mugabe in a row over whether the Zimbabwean President would be invited to a European Union-Africa summit in December, saying they would boycott the event if he was banned. The meeting in Lisbon would be the first in seven years.
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/ 20 September 2007
Demining in Mozambique will soon get a boost with the arrival of more specially trained rats, local reports said on Thursday. Radio Mozambique said the international demining company Apopo will soon receive an additional 15 demining rats to add to its current furry workforce of 25.
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/ 13 September 2007
At least 440 sites are still heavily infested by landmines near residential districts in three Mozambican provinces, a non-governmental organisation working with the disabled said on Thursday. Demining agency Handicap International said the sites were in Inhambane and central provinces of Manica and Sofala.
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/ 13 September 2007
A Mozambican man was arrested in the central province of Manica after he was found in possession of human flesh barely two weeks after he was released from prison where he served time for similar charges. The man told police officers that he was unable to live without eating human flesh.
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/ 6 September 2007
Missing soccer player Nando Matola has been reported to have died in a car accident, according to a report on Mozambique state radio on Thursday. It was reported that Matola, a Mozambican national who played for the Black Leopards in South Africa, was accompanied by his wife and three children when their car veered off the road and hit a tree.
The state-owned Mozambican Petroleum Company on Thursday unveiled a -million biofuels project aimed at easing an energy crunch in the fast-growing Southern African nation. A senior official said it will lead to a maximum annual production of 226-million litres of ethanol and biodiesel seven years after start-up.
More than 85 000 people in the central Mozambican province of Sofala are facing food shortages because of floods and drought that hit that part of the country earlier this year. The national secretariat on food security and nutrition said the number could increase to more than 100 000 by the end of October.
Six children from the same family were killed when a landmine left over from Mozambique’s civil war exploded in the Southern African country, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday. The children found the landmine while playing on Thursday in a field behind their home, the ministry said.
International Monetary Fund (IMF) director general Rodrigo Rato on Monday expressed the organisation’s commitment to triple the voting rights of African nations in the organisation. ”We are conscious of the fact that current voting rights of African countries are insufficient and not representative enough,” Rato said.