Maputo, Mozambique News

According to AllAfrica.com Vodacom Mozambique has introduced the mobile money transfer service M-PESA, as popularised by its Vodafone-owned sister company Safaricom in Kenya.

Raising chickens has become so fashionable among some urban Americans that there's now a market for chicken diapers , as we reported this month.

A girl carries a bucket of water on her head while families displaced by the floods wait to be registered under a large tree in Baue resettlement centre, in Mutarrara, Tete Province, in this photograph released by UNICEF on January 21, 2008.

UN secretary Ban Ki-moon has emphasized the importance of countries stepping up their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals MDGs before their 2015 deadline .

Maputo - Mozambique doctors went on strike Monday demanding higher pay and accusing the government of reneging on a January promise to double their wages, the medics association said.

A FASHION show and fun walk put more than A 2,600 into the coffers of a children's heart charity.

The Mozambican government has approved a bill to increase the number of municipalities in the country from 43 to 53, Mozambiqan news agency AIM reported.

Vale SA, the world's biggest iron-ore producer, said it restarted coal transport from its Moatize mine in Mozambique 's northwestern Tete province today.

Commencing May 11, with the Oued Ziz , the weekly service will be operated with the following rotation: Tangier, Casablanca, Agadir and returning to Tangier.

British Airways inaugurated services on the 430-kilometre route from Johannesburg to the capital of Mozambique, Maputo , on 6 May.

POUND, bawbee or Scottie which should an independent Scotland go for? Iain Gray looks at the surreal side of currency, with a warning that the colour of our banknotes does matter Alex Salmond is hardly the first politician to get into currency trouble.

An International Monetary Fund team visited Mozambique during April 24 to May 8, 2013 to conduct the 2013 Article IV consultation and the sixth and last review under the three-year Policy Support Instrument that was approved in June 2010 .

"It has been a great pleasure for me to visit Mozambique as First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF.

The annual general meeting in Dubai of DP World, the company that holds the concession to operate the container terminal at Maputo Port in Mozambique, has heard that in 2012 the company made a profit worldwide of $749 million.

The Bank of Brazil is to enter into an agreement with the government of Mozambique to finance the construction of the Moamba Major dam that will provide drinking water for the Maputo metropolis.

TRADER passenger traffic between Nairobi and Maputo, Mozambique has forced Kenya Airways to add an extra flight on the route bringing the number of weekly flights to the destination to four.

It also reveals the scale of what some have called Beijing's escalating soft-power "charm offensive" to secure political and economic clout on the continent.

Less than two decades ago, Maputo was war-torn and struggling to survive. Today it is one of Southern Africa's hippest cities.

Brazil's President Lula da Silva talks his Mozambique counterpart Armando Guebuza, during his last visit to Africa as head of state in Maputo, November 9, 2010.

Coal of Africa Limited expects to resume coal exports through the Matola terminal in Maputo from next month, after damage to the railway line serving the Mozambican port cut off access in February.