The Aids pandemic has taken a particularly heavy toll on Southern African countries — not least Mozambique. According to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids latest statistics indicate that about 13% of the country’s 19-million-strong population is infected with HIV.
Vodacom Mozambique, a subsidiary of South African mobile services provider Vodacom, last week reached the 100 000 customer milestone after commencing commercial operations in one of Africa’s most promising economies in December last year.
At an average of 2,5% of gross domestic product, levels of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows into Africa are not as low as generally believed, especially relative to Africa’s market size compared with the rest of the world, according to the World Bank’s Alan Gelb. But South Africa in particular has recently recorded FDI flows that are well below their potential.
Nigeria plans to launch software that would help catch people who send scam letters via e-mail, known as the 419 advance fee fraud, a meeting on the sidelines of Africa’s World Economic Forum has heard. The new technology, which would identify key words used in the e-mails, is likely to be made available to internet service providers and government departments.
South Africa on Thursday called for a tough stance on corruption, a key barrier to economic growth in Africa, proposing a name-and-shame campaign against big companies involved in the practice. ”Clearly, corruption is a very big issue,” South Africa’s Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel said at the World Economic Forum for Africa.
African governments will work with big business to launch projects that will shore up the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) continental economic rescue plan, Mozambique’s President Joaquim Chissano said on Tuesday at the opening of a three-day World Economic Forum for Africa conference.
Botswana ranks as Africa’s top competitive economy, ahead of other powerhouses such as South Africa and Nigeria, according to a survey by the World Economic Forum released on Wednesday at the opening of a three-day conference on business in Africa in the Mozambican capital of Maputo.
The World Economic Forum conference on Africa was due to open on Wednesday in Mozambique to work out how a homegrown economic rescue plan could turn the world’s poorest continent into a global player. A focal point is the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad), an amibtious plan to pull the continent out of poverty by encouraging investment and embracing good governance and financial transparency.
Mozambique said on Friday it is stepping up a prevention campaign against malaria, the country’s third-biggest killer after cholera and Aids, by encouraging the use of mosquito nets and looking at new treatments. Malaria killed 3 200 people in Mozambique last year out of a total of 4,5-million cases.
The Roman Catholic Church in Mozambique’s northern Nampula region on Thursday insisted its claims of a human organ-trafficking network operating in the province and targeting children were true. The church demanded a continued probe to bring the alleged criminals to book.
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/ 15 February 2004
South Africa’s Deputy President Jacob Zuma promised Mozambicans on Saturday that the truth about an air crash that claimed the life of their communist leader Samora Machel in 1986 would be uncovered. Machel died when the plane he was travelling in crashed in northern South Africa on October 19 1986.
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/ 29 January 2004
The cholera death toll in Mozambique’s capital, Maputo, since Christmas has risen to 20, health authorities said on Thursday. Deputy national health director Avertino Barreto said about 250 people were being treated daily for the waterborne disease at the Mavalane hospital in the east coast port city.
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/ 13 January 2004
White Zimbabwean commercial farmers have created more than 4 000 jobs in neighbouring Mozambique, where they settled after being ousted from their land back home, a regional governor said on Tuesday. He said there are about 100 Zimbabwean farmers in the fertile districts of Manica province.
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/ 30 December 2003
A sudden storm with winds gusting up to 75kph killed a child, injured 78 people and displaced hundreds of families in the southern Mozambique town of Moamba, state radio reported on Monday. The storm lasted barely 10 minutes on Saturday afternoon, but razed hundreds of flimsy homes.
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/ 19 November 2003
Local polling in Mozambique started slowly on Wednesday as voters queued to cast their ballots in the first municipal elections contested by a former rebel group. The Mozambique National Resistance (Renamo) party is participating in local elections for the first time since independence from Portugal in 1975.
Heads of state opening talks at the African Union (AU) summit on Wednesday night will focus on ways to implement an ambitious plan for the economic recovery of Africa.
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/ 12 December 2002
Dozens of armed police on Thursday stormed Mozambique’s Parliament to try to restore order after opposition lawmakers brought business to a halt for the second day running.
South African Airways (SAA) and Mozambique’s national carrier Linhas Aereas de Mocambique (LAM) have signed a code-sharing agreement that will allow joint bookings and extend each airline’s reach on the continent.
White beaches, blue skies, waving palm fronds, coloured fish — Quilalea could be any South Sea Island which Europeans dream of as they ponder another day with bad weather.
The leaders of three southern African countries are due to sign a treaty that will bring into existence the world’s largest game park, the 95 000-square-kilometre, cross-border Great Limpopo National Park.
Singing, ululations, drumbeats and dancing heralded the establishment of one of the world’s biggest cross-border conservation areas on Monday, signed into existence by the presidents of South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Clean natural gas should start flowing from Mozambique’s gas fields in late 2003 and is expected to seriously re-arrange neighbouring South Africa’s energy mix as many industries switch from dirty coal.
Barry Streek The people of the remote Richtersveld area near the Namibian border have lost the first round of their long legal battle to reclaim their land. The people of Richtersveld instituted an action in the Land Claims Court against the state diamond company Alexkor and the government in terms of the Restitution of Land […]
Roshila Pillay The government has yet to formulate and implement legislation to prevent the trafficking of women and children, despite being a signatory to a United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime, which includes a protocol on trafficking in people. South Africa first ratified a UN convention in trafficking and prostitution in 1951. This week […]
There was motive for the then South African government to kill Mozambique’s Samora Machel, and there is plenty of evidence to back up these claims.