Mozambique News Archives

Mozambique's incumbent president looks set to serve a second term of office as partial results of the country's presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections are announced.

Mozambique's ruling party enjoyed a firm lead in early election returns on Thursday, the day after the Southern African country went to the polls in its fourth democratic elections, local media said.

Mozambicans voted today in elections reported to have had a massive youth turnout.

As Mozambique heads to the polls on Wednesday, the country's ruling party looks set for an easy victory over an opposition that has been battered by a recent split and bruised by a series of election losses.

Mozambique's opposition leader of three decades says he won't seek the presidency again if defeated in elections on Wednesday, which are likely to be won by the ruling party credited with one of Africa's biggest success stories.

The Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Political Military Affairs will provide $2 million in new assistance to help Mozambique safeguard its citizens from abandoned landmines and unexploded munitions remaining from decades of conflict.

With Mozambique's opposition divided by a recent split, getting out the vote is seen as crucial in a race where turnout will be the measure of satisfaction for incumbent President Armando Guebuza and Frelimo, which has governed Mozambique since independence in 1975.

After South Africa, Malawi and Botswana the 2009 southern Africa election express rolls into the region's rising star, Mozambique, this week.

By Charles Mangwiro Maputo - Mozambique President Armando Guebuza looks set to win re-election this week, with splits within the opposition ranks precluding any serious challenge to the millionaire businessman and his ruling Frelimo party.

The candidates' faces are plastered along the soaring facade of the Grande Hotel, their smiles competing with a backdrop of graffiti, mould and peeling paint.

The district of Zumbo, in the western Mozambican province of Tete, will soon start receiving electricity from neighbouring Zambia under an agreement reached between the two countries.

Official campaigning ends Sunday ahead of Mozambique's general election scheduled for Wednesday.

Angola is integrating the troika of observers of Mozambique's general elections of the Organ for Political, Defence and Security Cooperation of the Southern African Development Community , under the presidency of Zambia.

ZIMBABWE'S Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, paid a surprise visit to President Jacob Zuma in Cape Town to ask for renewed support for the country's failing peace drive.

The Electoral Institute of Southern Africa is sending 24 observers to the Mozambican general and provincial elections scheduled for 28 October.

Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will take his worsening standoff with President Robert Mugabe to regional leaders this week, as Mugabe's party vows to plough ahead with government business despite a Movement for Democratic Change boycott.

An unspecified number of investors have submitted applications to the government's Investment Promotion Centre to build cement factories in Mozambique.

Mozambique's National Elections Commission stands accused of falsifying the parliamentary lists of a minor political party so that it can stand in the forthcoming general election in the central province of Sofala.

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Light or water? That's a choice Southern Africa could face in a few years if current plans to build more large dams on the Zambezi proceed.

Mozambique plans to build a $500 million railway line by 2015 to ship coal from its Moatize mines to the deep water port of Nacala, a government minister said on Sunday.

Sporadic acts of violence have continued to mar the Mozambican election campaign ahead of the presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections scheduled for 28 October.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on Madagascar's leaders to quickly conclude talks on a transitional government following progress made under United Nations-backed mediation in the crisis that led to the President's ouster earlier this year.

By Wendy Jasson da Costa The SA Airlink plane crash in Durban on September 24 brought back chilling memories for textile industry boss Walter Simeoni, who had a near-death experience in a similar plane in 2006.

The African Union called on Madagascar's feuding leaders on Tuesday to resume negotiations and establish a consensus government aimed at ending months of instability on the Indian Ocean island.

Mozambican President Armando Guebuza has pledged if he wins this year's presidential election, he will make no attempt to amend the Constitution so that he could stand for a third term of office.

The European Union has sent 24 long-term election observers to Mozambique, who were on Sunday deployed to the country's provinces where they will follow the current election campaign, the voting and the count.

The new mayor of the northern Mozambican city of Nacala, elected in February, Chale Ossufo, has accused the previous municipal government of leaving a ruinous series of debts which he must now deal with.

A group of tiny political parties have demanded that the international community impose "immediate and unconditional sanctions against the Mozambican government" because they have been excluded from competing in some or all of the constituencies in the forthcoming parliamentary elections.