Mozambique News

THE 15-day deadline set by the Sadc organ on politics, defence and security to kick-start negotiations to end the impasse over the outstanding issues of the global political agreement lapses today with no indications as to when the talks will commence.

The mainstream MDC on Friday launched a stinging attack on negotiators from the MDC-M, branding their counterparts as a mischievious and insincerea for delaying talks to resolve the outstanding issues in the unity government.

Fresh negotiations to deal with the so-called outstanding issues in the unity government are expected to begin in earnest this weekend nearly two weeks after the Southern African Development Community Troika directed at its meeting in Mozambique that Zimbabwe resolves its niggling issues within 30 days.

Maputo - Four of Mozambique's provinces - Cabo Delgado, Niassa and Nampula in the north and central Zambezia - have been declared free of landmines, the government said.

The Mozambican government and the publicly owned National Hydrocarbon Company on Thursday signed two contracts under which ENH is granted concessions to distribute and market natural gas in the northern part of Inhambane province, and in Maputo city and the adjacent district of Marracuene.

Manuel Tome said mopping out corruption is an ongoing effort and something that cannot be achieved overnight.

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Mozambique's main opposition party says the ruling party stuffed ballot boxes and expelled opposition monitors from polling stations to help it win the country's Oct.

Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, on Monday appealed against the results of the 28 October general elections, won by the ruling Frelimo Party with about three quarters of the votes.

The dancer called police to his home because he feared he was being robbed, only to end up being killed by the officers from whom he had sought help, Amnesty International said, offering one example of deadly police violence in Mozambique.

THE young dealer in a cap fiddles with his BlackBerry. As he reaches for a beer, I see the stone he's holding.

Since independence from Portugal in 1975, Mozambique has been battered by civil war, economic mismanagement and famine.

Maputo, Nov 13 Mozambique National Election Commission officially announced President Armando Guebuza winner of the October 28 general elections.

Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, has continued its long tradition of rejecting the results of Mozambican general elections.

Brazil has plans to invest 300 million dollars to develop infrastructure in Mozambique, where the Latin American giant is a big investor in coal and biofuels, a Mozambican newspaper reported Thursday.

Vendors selling to passengers at the Savane train station. The rebuilt Sena Railway has brought new life to the Mozambican communities it serves As the locomotive rolls into Savane, a colorful palette of vendors converges on the station to sell sandwiches, soft drinks, fruit and other articles to passengers.

Mozambican port managers have denied claims by Malawi that the current shortage of fuel in that country is due to congestion in the Mozambican ports of Nacala and Beira.

The two diesel fired back-up power stations that can provide Maputo with electricity in the event of interruption to the normal power supply are being converted to run on natural gas, according to a report in Monday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias". The publicly owned electricity company, EDM, has signed a memorandum of intentions with the ...

Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, has once again threatened an "incendiary revolution", because of the alleged "theft of votes" in last week's general elections.