Mozambique: Changes Electoral Law Despite Renamo Demonstration

The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Wednesday altered the country's electoral law, despite a noisy demonstration by opposition deputies who claimed that the… Read more »

Mozambique: Thousands Bid Final Farewell to Pascoal Mocumbi

Thousands of Mozambicans on Tuesday bid their final farewell to former Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi, who died on Saturday, after a lengthy illness. Read more »

Africa: Proposes Greater Cooperation Between Security Council and African Union

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi believes that greater coordination between the United Nations Security Council and the African Union can help control the spread of terrorism in… Read more »

Mozambique: Mozambique Sends Fuel to Malawi

The Mozambican government is sending aid of 40,000 litres of fuel to Malawi, in response to the appeal launched by Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera, following the passage of… Read more »

Mozambique: Claims Death Squad Is Attacking Renamo Members

Ossufo Momade, leader of Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, on Monday claimed that demobilised Renamo guerrillas are being harassed, threatened and even murdered in the… Read more »

Mozambique: Zambezia Classes Resume Next Week

The schools affected by Cyclone Freddy in the central Mozambican province of Zambezia will gradually resume classes as from next week, according to Deputy Education Minister Manuel… Read more »

Mozambique: Scale Importers Suspend Trips to South Africa

The Mozambican Association of small scale importers, known as "mukheristas', has decided to suspend trips to South Africa to prevent possible violence against Mozambican trucks… Read more »

Mozambique: Exxonmobil Consortium Wants to Update Onshore Gas Project

The US oil and gas company ExxonMobil says that the consortium it heads, in Area Four of the Rovuma Basin, off the coast of the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, wants… Read more »

Mozambique: Companies Owe Over 62.6 Million Dollars of Contributions to Social Security

Over 68,000 companies owe more than four billion meticais of contributions (62.5 million US dollars, at the current exchange rate) to Mozambique's National Social Security… Read more »

Mozambique: - Over 4,000 Voter Registration Posts Approved

Mozambique's National Elections Commission (CNE) has approved the creation of 4,292 voter registration posts ahead of the municipal elections scheduled for 11 October. Read more »

Mozambique: ENI Completes Rovuma Basin Sale to Exxonmobil

The Italian energy company ENI announced on Wednesday that it has completed the sale of half of its holding in Area Four of the Rovuma Basin, off the coast of the northern… Read more »

Mozambique: Cahora Bassa Not Cause of Cheap South African Power

Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Pedro Couto, on 26 November denied a claim by Renamo that electricity is cheaper in South Africa than in Mozambique because power from the… Read more »

Mozambique: Cahora Bassa Not the Cause of Cheap South African Power

Mozambique's minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Pedro Couto, on Thursday denied a claim by the former rebel movement Renamo that electricity is cheaper in South Africa than… Read more »

Mozambique: Business Licence Issued in a Single Day

Commercial licences for small businesses in Mozambique are to be issued in a single day and place, according to a decree on "simplified licensing" approved by the… Read more »

Mozambique: IMF 'Fully Confident' in Government

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is "fully confident" that the Mozambican government is dealing appropriately with the crisis in passenger transport in Maputo. Read more »

Mozambique: 'We Negotiated With Portugal, Not Eurostat' - Guebuza

Mozambican President Armando Guebuza has reiterated that, when, in November 2005, the Mozambican government signed a memorandum of understanding over the future of the Cahora Bassa… Read more »

Mozambique: President Demands Conclusion of Cahora Bassa Dam Transfer From Portugal

Mozambican President Armando Guebuza has demanded that the agreement on transferring majority ownership of the Cahora Bassa dam on the Zambezi river from Portugal to Mozambique be… Read more »

Mozambique: Programme to Promote National Innovators Launched

The Mozambican Science and Technology Ministry launched on Wednesday, in both Maputo and the northern city of Nampula, the National Programme to promote innovators, with the aim of… Read more »

Africa: Climate Change a Deadly Threat to Africa

A prominent British non-governmental organisation, Christian Aid, has given an apocalyptic warning that climate change could lead to an additional 182 million people dying of… Read more »

Mozambique: Cardoso Murder: I Didn't Do It, Claims Anibalzinho

Anibal dos Santos Junior ("Anibalzinho"), the man accused of recruiting the death squad that murdered Mozambique's top investigative journalist in 2000, on Thursday said… Read more »

Mozambique: Cardoso Murder: Fifth Anniversary

Hundreds of friends, colleagues and admirers of murdered Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso joined his widow, Nina Berg, in a ceremony an Tuesday evening marking the fifth… Read more »