East Africa: Marine-Based 'Blue Economies' Offer Massive Potential

Developing ocean-based resources in areas such as fisheries, aquaculture, coastal tourism, transport and ports, mining and energy, could generate U.S. $20.8 billion a year for the… Read more »

Southern Africa: Cyclone Kenneth Strengthening as it Heads for Coast

Cyclone Kenneth - which is approaching the southern coast of Tanzania and northern coast of Mozambique - has been upgraded to an intense tropical cyclone by Meteo France, the… Read more »

Southern Africa: 1.6 Million Children Still Need Urgent Assistance After Cyclone Idai

Just over a month after Cyclone Idai tore through Southern Africa bringing devastating floods, UNICEF says the needs in Mozambique remain massive, with 1 million children in need… Read more »

Southern Africa: How Cyclone Idai is Playing Out

Cyclone Idai has caused widespread devastation across south-east Africa. We've listed some key facts on the situation. Read more »

Mozambique: Crowdfunding Campaign Launched to Help Flood Victims

A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to support the victims of floods that have left dozens dead and thousands displaced. Tropical cyclone Idai battered Mozambique's coastal… Read more »

Africa: Exciting Breakthrough for TB Prevention Announced by Pan-African Health Organization

Ten million people around the world became sick with tuberculosis (TB) in 2017. The World Health Organization calls it "the world's deadliest curable disease". Read more »

Mozambique: Debt Scandal - Former President's Son Arrested

The son of Mozambique's former president Armando Guebuza has been arrested in a legal crackdown on suspects linked to a $2-billion government debt scandal, AFP reports. Read more »

Mozambique: Frelimo Wants Chang Back, But Opposition Smells A Rat

Mozambique has asked for the extradition of former finance minister Manuel Chang, who is detained in South Africa on U.S. charges over a corruption scandal in his home country,… Read more »

Southern Africa: Africa's Revolutions Have Brought Disappointment - But Hope Remains

When I immigrated to the United States from South Africa towards the end of the 1960's I was totally unaware of the wars of liberation against Portuguese colonialism that had begun… Read more »

Mozambique: Debt-Ridden Govt Still Financing Gas Stations

The Filipe Nyusi Nyusi-led government continues financing fuel stations in Mozambique to ensure availability of petrol, diesel, cooking gas and oil, Verdade reports. Read more »

Africa: These Young Africans Were Just Recognised for Making a Difference

You may know who Millie Bobby Brown is from her role in the American TV series Stranger Things, but do you know who Kherann Yao, Deasy Helena Muzima, Detty Dione Datto, Lebohang… Read more »

Mozambique: Central Bank Governor Blames Cyber-Attack for Banking Crisis

The governor of the Mozambican central bank, Rogério Zandamela, has told parliament that a Portuguese software company, Bizfirst, carried out "cyber-attacks" on the… Read more »

Africa: Africans Live A Decade Longer Than in 1990, But...

The level of human development in Sub-Saharan Africa, judged by how long people live for, how well they are educated and how much they earn, has improved by more than a third in… Read more »

Mozambique: Water Restrictions Stay Put for Maputo

Mozambique authorities have announced a return to water restrictions of 2017 due to the scarcity of water in the Pequenos Libombos reservoir, Verdade Online reports. Read more »

Southern Africa: Rethinking Belonging Could Foster a More Humane Understanding of Migration

World Social Justice Day is this year marked by the theme: “Workers on the move: the quest for social justice”. Read more »

Southern Africa: Graca Machel Urges Better Nutrition for Mothers, Children

One of every four children under five years old in southern Africa suffers from stunted growth in that they are too short for their age, often as a result of inadequate nutrition. Read more »

Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa Faces Challenging Economic Outlook - World Bank

Sub-Saharan Africa's economies are experiencing a modest recovery, with gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the region expected to rise to 2.4 percent in 2017 from 1.3 percent… Read more »

Mozambique: Time for Rising Nation to Soar

Twenty years ago, in 1997, President Joaquim Chissano arrived in Washington DC to attend the Corporate Council on Africa's First Biennial U.S.-Africa Business Summit. He came as… Read more »

Africa: Changing Perceptions on Display at U.S.-Africa Business Summit in DC

"We must change the lenses with which we look at Africa from the traditional development mindset to an investment mindset," Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development… Read more »

Mozambique: 15 Things You Need to Know About #SamoraMachel

1. Samora Machel was born on September 29, 1933 Read more »

Mozambique: Quake Shakes Central Province

An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale was recorded late on Thursday, September 22, in the southern province of Manica, in central Mozambique, according to Verdade.co.mz. Read more »

Africa: Indian PM Modi's African Safari

Nearly nine months ago the third India-Africa Forum Summit, and the first that included all African states, was held with much fanfare in Delhi. Read more »

Africa: Thirty Nations Cut 'Multidimensional' Poverty in 'Runaway Success'

According to a new analysis from the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative at the University of Oxford, 30 of 35 sub-Saharan African countries analysed for changes to… Read more »

Mozambique: Govt Takes First Step to Repairing IMF Ties

The Mozambican government has made an “extensive disclosure of information” to the International Monetary Fund in recent days, after earlier hiding from the IMF more… Read more »

Southern Africa: Historic Slave Shipwreck Found Off South African Coast

Researchers have announced the discovery of the wreck of a Portuguese slave ship in which an estimated 200 Mozambicans died when the ship sank just off Cape Town more than two… Read more »