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The claim that biofuels are a threat to food security comes from multinational oil companies, who fear that biofuels are a threat to their business, alleged Jose Bellini, coordinator for agrobusiness of the Brazilian Agriculture and Livestock Research company, EMBRAPA, in Maputo on Thursday.
The Southern African Railways Association (SARA) held its 29th board meeting in Maputo on Friday, bringing together railway managers from across the southern African region.
The World Bank has provided a 110 million US dollar credit to Mozambique as direct budget support, under an agreement signed in Maputo on Friday by Planning and Cooperation Minister Aiuba Cuereneia and the World Bank representative in Maputo, Luiz Tavares.
Mozambique is the biggest beneficiary of the ProAfrica programme, a research initiative of the Brazilian government, involving scientists from various African countries.
The Political Commission of Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, began an extraordinary session in the northern city of Nampula on Thursday to define the party's future after its crushing defeat in the general and provincial elections of 28 October.
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Thursday swore into office Lucia do Amaral and Irene Afonso as Assistant Attorney-Generals.
The supposedly mysterious disease that has been claiming victims in Tsangano district, in the western Mozambican province of Tete, has been identified as typhoid fever, reports Friday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias".
The former chairperson of the Mozambican Airport Company (ADM), Diodino Cambaza, on Thursday admitted that irregularities had occurred while he was running the company, but tried to shift the blame onto the shoulders of successive financial directors.
Mozambican Brazilian, and Southern African business people are meeting for two days in Maputo to look into investment opportunities for producing biofuels, particularly ethanol, from sugar cane in Mozambique.
The Mozambican government and the publicly owned National Hydrocarbon Company (ENH) 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.
Mozambican Education Minister Aires Aly said in Maputo on Wednesday that though there are still problems of access of children to school, the main challenge to the country, at national level, is about the quality of education.
Mozambique's former Transport Minister, Antonio Munguambe, on Wednesday admitted that he had requested a large loan from the publicly owned airports company, ADM, to pay school fees for his children studying in South Africa.
"Hunger is the lack of rain." ("A fome é a falta de chuva"): these are the words of a local farmer from Chicualacuala, a small town situated in the South-west of Mozambique, when asked about the causes of food insecurity in the country.
European Union election observers noted "numerous irregularities" during the count at polling stations during Mozambique's general and provincial elections of 28 October - but the EU mission estimates that this malpractice did not significantly affect the results.
The vast majority of the economically active Mozambican population works in the primary sector, according to the definitive results from the 2007 population census, published in Maputo on Wednesday.
The Mozambican resident population, as counted in the national census held in August 2007, was 20,226,296.
The gross birth rate in Mozambique is 42.2 per 1,000 inhabitants, according to the definitive results of the 2007 census, released in Maputo n Wednesday.
Deolinda Matos, the first of the five accused to testify in the major corruption trial concerning the publicly owned Mozambique Airpoerts Company (ADM), on Tuesday adopted the Nuremburg defence - everything she had done, she claimed, was on the orders of her superiors.
The Mozambican government approved on Tuesday the "National Good Service Programme" (PNBS), costed at 6.5 million meticais (238,500 US dollars), aimed at improving the provision of services.
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Wednesday declared that reliable statistics "illuminate and guide our acts of planning and intervention, based on solid knowledge of our socio-demographic reality".
The Mozambican Engineering Laboratory (LEM) opened in Maputo on Monday a course on security of dams, with the participation of 40 people, including managers of dams, professionals from consultancy companies, teachers and students from various universities.
Mozambique is ranked joint 130th out of 180 countries in this year's edition of the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), published on Tuesday by the anti-corruption NGO, Transparency International (TI).
The Mozambican government has decided to demolish the current Ministry of Agriculture next year, according to the Ministry's permanent secretary, Daniel Clemente, cited in Tuesday's issue of the independent daily "O Pais".
The trail began in Maputo on Monday of former Transport Minister Antonio Munguambe, the former chairperson of the Mozambican Airport Company (ADM), Diodino Cambaza, and three others, who are facing corruption charges involving the theft of over 54.4 million meticais (about two million US dollars, at current exchange rates) from ADM between 2005 and 2008.
The first phase of a pharmaceutical plant to produce anti-retroviral drugs in Mozambique will begin before the end of this year, according to the Brazilian Minister of Development Industry and Foreign Trade, Miguel Jorge.
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