Maputo, Mozambique News

The low level conflict between Mozambique's former civil war foes escalated recently, but now there is fresh hope of peace in the East African country.

Uganda is one of the Common market for Eastern and Southern African member countries with low value added produce, according to government.

This is a Mozambican saying that was used by Graca Michel, member of International Panel of Elders and a former Mozambican minister of education , to illustrate the point that Africa cannot rely on outside help to achieve food security .

Africa Cup of Nations third round, second leg qualifying fixtures this weekend : Saturday At Blantyre Malawi v Benin 1230 GMT At Victoria Seychelles v Sierra Leone 1230 GMT At Kigali Rwanda v Congo Brazzaville 1300 GMT At Bissau Guinea-Bissau v Botswana 1600 GMT At Nouakchott Mauritania v Uganda 1700 GMT Sunday At Maputo Mozambique v Tanzania 1300 ... (more)

Delta International Property Holdings, the first JSE-listed property fund to offer investors direct access to high growth opportunities elsewhere in Africa, is targeting properties in Ghana and Nigeria in its "next wave" of acquisitions.

From the Paris Descartes University and European Georges Pompidou Hospital, Paris, France; the Centre Hospitalier Territorial de Nouvelle CalA©donie, New Caledonia; Maputo Heart Institute, Maputo, Mozambique; and Heart Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.

A Mozambique child awaits treatment for malaria at the Manhica Hospital, near the capital Maputo.

A Thai-Mozambican consortium has set a 2018 target to commission a $4.5 billion coal export railway and port terminal project in central Mozambique, but the depressed global coal prices outlook made the timing "tough", the company's president said.

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi became the first Italian head of government to visit Mozambique at the start of an African tour aimed at bolstering trade ties with the continent.

We are not alone. Here is a news item about Mozambique: "Mozambican civil society organisations on 16 June praised President Armando Guebuza for exercising his veto against bills passed by the Assembly of the Republic which would have increased the pension rights and other privileges of former parliamentary deputies and former heads of state.

Jul 3, 2014--Regus, the global workspace provider, has opened its first business centre in Mozambique, at Edificio Millennium Park in Maputo.

Afonso Dhlakama, the Mozambique National Resistance president, described the recent arrest of his spokesman Antonio Muchanga as a provocation by President Armando Guebuza but even so, he promised that he will not retaliate by force.

The Maputo City Law Court on Wednesday confirmed the detention of Antonio Muchanga, spokesperson for Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the former rebel movement Renamo.

The National Statistics Institute announced on Thursday that the rate of inflation in Mozambique in June, as measured by the consumer price indices for the three largest cities , was negative, at minus 0.52 per cent.

More sub-Saharan Africans are living in extreme poverty now than in 1990, says a UN report, warning the region will miss most of its development goals.

The spokesman for the Office of the President of Renamo, Antnio Muchanga, was detained in the early afternoon of Monday July 7th, outside the Presidency of the Republic of Mozambique, moments after leaving the State Council meeting, a body of which he is a member.

The Maputo Southern Sun Hotel in Mozambique is run by Tsogo Sun. SABMiller will dispose of its 39.6 percent stake, worth R11.7 billion, in the hotel group.

Maternal mortality rates have not made much improvement in Mozambique since 2003, according to the 2011 Demographic and Health Survey .

Between June 30th and July 2nd the annual Conference "Ease of Doing Business Initiative - EDBI", was held in Maputo, Mozambique.

Mozambique's Minister of Fisheries, Victor Borges, on Thursday laid the first stone for the construction of the new Maputo fish market.