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Growing support for the MDM could deflect attention from the old

New kid may shake up Mozambique’s party politics

Tired of the fighting between Renamo and Frelimo, voters could turn to the Mozambique Democratic Movement on October 15.

Mozambique: New president, same old guises?

Incoming president Filipe Nyusi says he seeks continuity, but he is unlikely to dance to Armando Guebuza’s tune.

Duats for urban and rural areas differ slightly.

The do’s and don’ts of land rights in Mozambique

Legal frameworks protect the land rights of communities in Mozambique, while duats allow their holders to use land for authorised purposes.

Polarised Mozambican media at the state’s mercy

Public mouthpieces favour Frelimo but the others root largely for the opposition parties.

A statue of Mozambique’s first president

Mozambique’s port of slums

Most of the citizens in capital city Maputo don’t have access to basic municipal services, and malnutrition is rife.

By investing in people

For policy, suffer the little children of Mozambique

Mozambique needs to invest in its children if the resource curse is to be transformed into a mineral wealth dividend.

The land provided to Senolia S* on her resettlement to Cateme was reclaimed by its original cultivators. She rented a plot of rocky

Mozambique’s mining boom damns the poorest

The Mozambican mining industry has joined the list of resource curses that hit the country’s poorer citizens.

More than 360 rhino have been killed by poachers in South Africa since the beginning of this year.

New wildlife commission targets rhino horn syndicates

A new international justice commission based in The Hague is to deal with criminals who smuggle rhino horns through Mozambique.