April 30

• Concession Awarded for Construction of Matutuine Port

  AIM

  Mozambican Prime Minister Alberto Vaquina on 18 April announced that the government has already awarded the concession for the construction of a deep water port at Techobanine, in... Read more »

• President Warns Against Divisions Over Gas

  AIM

  Mozambican President Armando Guebuza appealed on 18 April for Mozambicans to understand the scale of the natural gas discoveries in the northern province of Cabo Delgado and to... Read more »

• Mozambique Supports Development of Small Scale Fishing

  AIM

  Mozambique is committed to the development of small scale fishing and aquaculture because it considers this to be a strategic vector for developing food security and contributing... Read more »

• Power Supply to Eskom Returns to Normal

  AIM

  Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB), the company that operates the Cahora Bassa dam and power station on the Zambezi River, has fully restored the supply of energy to the South... Read more »

• BP to Invest 87 Million Dollars in Mozambique

  AIM

  The British hydrocarbon company BP announced on 23 April that it will invest about 87 million US dollars in Mozambique over the next five years. Read more »

• ENI Increases Estimated Gas Reserves

  AIM

  The Italian energy company ENI has announced that it has increased the estimated reserves of natural gas in the Rovuma Basin, off the coast of the northern Mozambican province of... Read more »

• Delays in Road Building Projects

  AIM

  The Deputy Minister of Public Works and Housing, Francisco Pereira, has blamed delays in planning and hiring contractors, along with weak national capacity for the failure to fully... Read more »

• Sugar Exports Reach Record Levels

  AIM

  The Mozambican sugar industry in 2012 exported 243,583 tonnes of brown sugar worth 126 million US dollars. This represents a 23 per cent increase on the 198,181 tonnes exported in... Read more »

• Peasants Complain of Difficulties in Selling Cash Crops

  AIM

  Armando Guebuza about difficulties in marketing their cash crops, namely cotton and jatropha. Read more »

• Funding Available for Gas Pipeline Viability Study

  AIM

  Mozambique's National Hydrocarbon Company (ENH) has declared that five million US dollars are now guaranteed, to be invested by the end of the year, in a viability study for a gas... Read more »

April 25

• Communities Discuss Innovations in Small-scale Farming [press release]

  Greenpeace

  Responding to a recent spate of industrial palm oil projects in Cameroon, Greenpeace Africa is working with a Cameroonian NGO to show how small-scale farming projects are a better... Read more »

• 'Mozambique Week'

  AIM

  The event "Mozambique Week" , organized by the African Excellence Centre, will be held from April 29 to May 3 in Mauritius. Read more »

• Vale Clarified Compensation Process in Moatize

  AIM

  Vale clarified that the compensation process, which took place between 2010 and 2012, was directed to the brick factories in the area of Moatize coal mine under the resettlement... Read more »

April 24

• Journalists Team to Attend Meeting in Mozambique

  ANGOP

  The National journalists will represent the country in the first congress of journalists of Portuguese language, on April 24, in Maputo, Mozambique, an official source has... Read more »

April 23

• Human Rights Reports - Mozambique [document]

  State Department

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• Minister Pitra Neto Expected in Maputo

  ANGOP

  the Angolan Minister of Labour and Social Security, António Pitra Neto, is expected on Wednesday in Maputo (Mozambique), where he will attend CPLP's Labour and Social... Read more »

April 22

• Government Announces New Minimum Wages

  AIM

  The Mozambican government on 16 April approved the new minimum wages negotiated earlier in the month in the Labour Consultative Commission (CCT), the tripartite body between the... Read more »

• G8 to Invest 380 Million Dollars in Mozambican Agriculture

  AIM

  The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, an initiative of the G8 group of the most industrialised countries in the world, plans to invest 380 million US dollars in... Read more »

• President Will Not Let Natural Resources Overshadow Agriculture

  AIM

  Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on 12 April reaffirmed that the discovery of vast natural resources such a coal and natural gas will not shift the government’s attention... Read more »

• National Investment Bank Inaugurated

  AIM

  Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on 15 April in Maputo inaugurated the National Investment Bank (BNI) which is to finance large scale development projects. Read more »

• Brazil to Fund Maputo Water Supply Project

  AIM

  The Bank of Brazil is shortly expected to enter into an agreement with the government of Mozambique to finance the construction of the Moamba Major dam that will provide drinking... Read more »

• Italy Pledges Further Support

  AIM

  Italian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Staffan De Mistura, has pledged to increase his government’s financial support for the Mozambican state budget. The offer came... Read more »

• IFC May Increase Investments in Mozambique

  AIM

  The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the member of the World Bank Group that focuses on the private sector in developing countries, is considering increasing its... Read more »

• Metical Appreciates Against Rand

  AIM

  According to the central bank, the Bank of Mozambique, during March the Mozambican currency, the metical, appreciated by 2.98 per cent against the South African rand to 3.26... Read more »

• Australian Mining Company Finds Metal Deposits

  AIM

  The Australian mining company Metals of Africa has announced that it has found deposits of lead, zinc, silver and copper at its Rio Mazoe base metals project in the western... Read more »