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As the Constitutional Council considers the results of the 28 October general elections, and the appeal against them by the former rebel movement Renamo, one of the issues it will have to consider is the curious case of polling stations that declared a turnout of 95 per cent, 100 percent or more.
Failure rates in this year's examinations in central Maputo secondary schools are over 80 per cent, and in some classes reached 100 per cent, according to a report on the independent television station STV.
Mozambican Health Minister Ivo Garrido on Tuesday warned African countries not to neglect the problems of regulation and control of the sale of medicines on the continent.
Mozambique's former rebel movement Renamo has accused the ruling Frelimo party and the Mozambican police of conspiring to kidnap or assassinate its leader, Afonso Dhlakama.
Four people lost their lives when the Mozambican police opened fire on a mob destroying a cholera treatment centre in the northern province of Cabo Delgado earlier this month, according to a report in the Beira daily paper "Diario de Mozambique".
Mozambique's National Union of Building, Timber and Mine Workers (SINTICIM) has accused the General Inspectorate of Labour (IGT) of bungling its investigation into the deaths of two workers on a Maputo building site in October.
The number of people living in Mozambique's most populous province, Nampula, has now reached almost four million, according to the detailed data from the 2007 census .
As expected, the Standing Commission of the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Monday reiterated its decision to deprive nine parliamentary deputies of their seats because they fought the October general election on the ticket of the Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM).
The former financial director of the Mozambican Airports Company (ADM), Hermenegildo Mavale, on Monday told the Maputo City Court that the former ADM chairman, Diodino Cambaza, on trial for swindling the company out of the equivalent of two million US dollars, ran the business on the basis of verbal instructions.
Mozambique's National Elections Commission (CNE) has done "little or nothing" to investigate the malpractice that occurred during the 28 October general elections, accuses the Electoral Observatory (OE), the largest and most credible group of Mozambican election observers.
AS the 2010 Africa Nations Cup draw conducted in Angola Friday pitched the Super Eagles against defending champions, Egypt, Mozambique and Benin Republic in Group C, Chief Coach Shaibu Amodu and ex captainof the team, Sunday Oliseh have warned on the toughness of the opposition expected at the event.
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Monday called on African air companies to work together to overcome the current international financial crisis.
Mozambique has decided to pull out of a project to establish a shipping route from landlocked Malawi to the Indian Ocean, along the Shire and Zambezi rivers.
Graca Machel, the widow of the first Mozambican, President Samora Machel, and her husband, the former South African President Nelson Mandela, were named in Stockholm on Friday the winners of the prize for children's rights.
A former member of the Beira Municipal Assembly has defected from the ruling Frelimo Party to the Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM) - but Frelimo has dismissed him as "a swindler".
Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, is suffering from arthrosis, according to medical sources in the northern city of Nampula.
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.
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 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.
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.
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".
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Thursday swore into office Lucia do Amaral and Irene Afonso as Assistant Attorney-Generals.
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.
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