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At 15, Mateus Alice's world fell apart. A bright and dedicated student from the city of Beira in Mozambique, he was told that a prized scholarship he had won to study in the United Kingdom had been given to someone else.
Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, on Monday appealed against the results of the 28 October general elections, won by the ruling Frelimo Party with about three quarters of the votes.
A multimedia mobile unit is now on the road in the northern Mozambican province of Niassa with the task of making communities aware of AIDS and how to prevent the disease,
In Mozambique's first elections for provincial assemblies, held simultaneously with the general elections on 28 October, the detailed results show that the ruling Frelimo Party won in 137 of the 141 district constituencies.
Mozambican motorists will pay the real market price of the fuel they consume, when the current fuel subsidy terminates, Prime Minister Luisa Diogo has warned.
The curtain fell today on the 6th and final day of group B qualifiers for the combined 2010 World Cup/African Cup of Nations as Tunisia lost 1-0 against Mozambique in Maputo. On its part Nigeria beat Kenya 3-2 in a cliff hanger.
The fate of Nigeria qualifying for the first World Cup on African soil which has been hanging precariously on a balance since after the needless draw against the Mambas of Mozambique in Maputo on will be known today.
When, on Wednesday, the President of the National Elections Commission (CNE), Joao Leopoldo da Costa, announced the results of the Mozambican general elections held on 28 October, he admitted that serious malpractice had occurred.
The governments of Mozambique, Norway and Iceland have pledged to renew their cooperation in fisheries for the period 2009-2013, seeking to improve and make sustainable the exploitation of Mozambican fisheries resources.
The Danish Development Agency (DANIDA) has pledged about six million Euros (8.9 million US dollars) to rehabilitate the airport of Quelimane, capital of the central Mozambican province of Zambezia.
Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, has continued its long tradition of rejecting the results of Mozambican general elections.
China is sending its farming expertise to Mozambique in a drive to increase the African country's agricultural productivity.
Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party will have an overwhelming majority of seats in the incoming parliament, according to the results of the 28 October general elections, officially announced in Maputo on Wednesday by the National Elections Commission (CNE).
Mozambique is almost ready for the elections. Seven helicopters are making the last material deliveries to the polling posts. The police are stationed to secure peace during the elections. The observer groups too, are geared up for their important role.
The fourth general election in Mozambique will take place on Wednesday 28 October 2009.
The 15 year old child allegedly coerced by her school director into voting for the ruling Frelimo Party during the general elections of 28 October is named Maria Armando Edmaster, and the incident supposedly took place in the district of Nhamatanda, in the central province of Sofala, according to a report in the Beira daily paper, "Diario de Mocambique".
Another cholera treatment centre in northern Mozambique has been vandalised by a group of people who believe that these centres spread cholera rather than cure it.
The Confederation of Free and Independent Unions of Mozambique (CONSILMO), the smaller of Mozambique's two trade union federations, has protested at the derisory fine imposed on a building company responsible for the deaths of two of its workers.
Brazil has pledged to make 300 million US dollars available to finance rehabilitation work on the central Mozambican port of Beira and the airport at Nacala in the north of the country.
The Central Committee Secretary for Mobilisation and Propaganda of Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party, Edson Macuacua, declared on Wednesday that the main winners of the 28 October general elections were the Mozambican people "who knew how to make the right choice".
The Tunisian national football team has left Djerba on Wednesday morning heading for Maputo where it will play against Mozambique on November 14, 2009 at the combined World Cup and African Cup of Nations Group B last day qualifier.
The incumbent, President Armando Guebuza, has won the Mozambican 2009 elections in a landslide, obtaining three quarters of the votes, according to official results.
The final results in the 28 October general elections, announced on Wednesday by Mozambique's National Elections Commission (CNE), are as follows (the order of candidates is as they appeared on the ballot paper):
The chairperson of Mozambique's National Elections Commission (CNE), Joao Leopoldo da Costa, on Wednesday admitted that the general elections of 28 October were marred by the deliberate invalidation of votes by polling station staff.
Mozambique's National Elections Commission (CNE) on Wednesday announced the final results from the 28 October general elections, confirming an overwhelming victory for incumbent president Armando Guebuza and the ruling Frelimo Party.
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