Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)
The sole national news agency in Mozambique, producing news in Portuguese and English on Mozambican politics, economics and society.
November 8
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Mozambique: AMG Mining Secures Graphite Concession
The Dutch based company AMG (Advanced Metallurgical Group) announced on Wednesday that it has been granted a fifteen year mining concession for an open pit graphite mine and... Read more »
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Mozambique: CCT Calls for Constitutional Amendment
The Consultative Labour Commission (CCT), the tripartite negotiating body between the Mozambican government, the trade unions, and the employers’ associations, is calling for... Read more »
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Mozambique: Vale Revises Coal Export Forecast Downwards
The Brazilian mining giant Vale has revised downwards its forecast of the production and export of coal from its open cast mine at Moatize, in the western province of Tete. Read more »
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Mozambique: Bill On Penitentiary Service Passed
The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Thursday passed the first reading of a government bill overhauling the Mozambican prison service. Read more »
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Mozambique: Government Claims Food Security Improvement
Food security in Mozambique has greatly improved in recent years, Agriculture Minister Jose Pacheco claimed in Maputo on Thursday. Read more »
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Mozambique: Number of Foreign Workers Increases Slightly
In the first nine months of this year, 11,821 foreign citizens came to Mozambique legitimately seeking work, according to a Wednesday press release from the Ministry of Labour. Read more »
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Mozambique: Brigadier Golds Announces Significant Reserves
The Toronto based mining company Brigadier Gold on Tuesday announced that it has received the results of samples taken from its mining concession at Tsiquire in the district of... Read more »
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Mozambique: Argentine Business Mission Visits Nation
A group of 28 potential investors from small and medium Argentine companies met in Maputo on Tuesday with about 60 Mozambican business people to discuss possible partnerships and... Read more »
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Mozambique: Guebuza Calls On Justice System to Guarantee Rights
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Wednesday called on the bodies that administer justice to guarantee that citizens can enjoy their constitutionally guaranteed rights and... Read more »
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Mozambique: Government Protects Two Archipelagos
The Mozambican government has declared two small archipelagos, rich in marine wild life, as areas of environmental protection. Read more »
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Mozambique: CNE Chairman Did Not Attend Frelimo Congress
Mozambique’s National Elections Commission (CNE) has categorically denied claims that its chairperson, Joao Leopoldo da Costa, attended the Tenth Congress of the ruling... Read more »
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Mozambique: Government Briefs Assembly On Contingency Plan
The Mozambican government’s Contingency Plan for the 2012-2013 rainy and cyclone season envisages three possible scenarios, in which the number of people at risk from natural... Read more »
November 7
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Mozambique: Maritime Identification System for Nation's Navy
The United States government on Monday offered the Mozambican Defence Ministry a Maritime Automatic Identification System (AIS), making it possible to identify ships using the... Read more »
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Mozambique: Contacts Under Way for Building a Refinery
The Mozambican government’s Institute for the Management of State Holdings (IGEPE) is in contact with potential investors interested in building an oil refinery in... Read more »
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Mozambique: Guebuza Stresses Role of Value Chains
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Monday stressed the importance of partnerships between the public and private sectors in stimulating the value chains of goods and priority... Read more »
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Mozambique: Inflation Remains Low
Inflation in Mozambique remained low in October, with prices rising by just 0.33 per cent during the month, as measured by the consumer price indices in three largest cities,... Read more »
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Mozambique: Portuguese Companies Failing to Rehabilitate Main Road
The Mozambican government has threatened to take measures, up to and including the cancellation of their contract, against Portuguese companies that have proved incapable of... Read more »
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Mozambique: Some Montepuez Residents Resist Spraying
Some residents in Montepuez district, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado are refusing to spray their homes against mosquitoes, or to use chlorine to purify water,... Read more »
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Mozambique: Maritime Identification System for Nation's Navy
The United States government on Monday offered the Mozambican Defence Ministry a Maritime Automatic Identification System (AIS), making it possible to identify ships using the... Read more »
November 5
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Mozambique: State to Participate in Special Economic Zones
The Mozambican state plans to participate in all large development projects to be implemented in the Accelerated Development Economic Zones. Read more »
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Mozambique: Swine Fever Outbreak in Maputo Province
Following an outbreak of African swine fever, the agricultural authorities in Maputo province have banned the movement of pigs in the province, unless they have been inspected by... Read more »
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Mozambique: Long Prison Terms for Officials Accused of Theft
The Sofala Provincial Court in central Mozambique has sentenced two senior officials in Cheringoma district to 21 and 17 years imprisonment for the theft of state funds. Read more »
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Mozambique: Law On Public Probity Takes Effect in Ten Days
Mozambique’s Ministry of the Public Service and the Attorney-General’s Office are undertaking a national campaign to raise awareness of the Law on Public Probity, which... Read more »
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Mozambique: Clear Connection Between HIV and Malaria Deaths
Researchers from Mahidol University in Bangkok, working on data from the central Mozambican city of Beira, have shown that people infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS are... Read more »
November 3
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Mozambique: Anadarko Gas Project Could Double Country's GDP
The Texas-based Anadarko Petroleum Corporation has revealed that it could be looking at producing 50 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas per annum from its concession in the... Read more »
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