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The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, has set up structures, to cover both deputies and parliamentary staff, to address the problem of HIV/AIDS.

Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Mozambique's former rebel movement Renamo, has pledged that the country will not slip back to war.

Those who brought Mozambique's two privatised banks, the BCM and Austral, to ruin in 2000-2001 have nothing to fear from the World Bank.

THE Beira-Mutare-Harare oil pipeline is now fully operational after being under-utilised for two years, a development that is expected to result in the reduction of import costs, the oil industry said yesterday.

Mozambique's Minister of Industry and Trade, Carlos Morgado, on Wednesday urged the national business class and the country's public and private institutions, to take an active part in implementing the National Quality Policy, in order to stimulate

Different tariffs and market structures in Africa's major trading blocs have hindered trade between Kenya and Mozambique.

The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Tuesday unanimously approved a new Family law that sweeps away the male chauvinism inherent in the Civil Code inherited from Portuguese colonial rule.

Despite the sharp rise in the cost of crude oil on international markets, prices for most refined fuels remain unchanged in Mozambique.

The Electoral Administration Technical Secretariat (STAE), the electoral branch of the Mozambican civil service, is to request the support of South Africa in terms of air transport to distribute and collect electoral materials during the forthcoming presi

The Mozambican government, the trade unions and the employers' organisations agreed on Monday, at a meeting of their tripartite consultative forum (CCT), that the promotion of employment and poverty relief are directly linked to the need to promote fur

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) approved a set of electoral guidelines at its summit in Mauritius earlier this week that, if taken seriously, will make it difficult for any government in the region to rig elections.

At least 30 members of Mozambique's former rebel movement Renamo will face court cases arising from last week's disturbances in the district of Cheringoma, in the central province of Sofala.

The Mozambican animal health department in Maputo province has launched a campaign to vaccinate more than 66,000 head of cattle against foot-and-mouth disease in the districts of Magude and Moamba, reports Friday's issue of the daily paper "Noticias

The head of the parliamentary group of Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party, Manuel Tome, said in Maputo on Thursday that, although the former rebel movement Renamo is threatening to return to war, if it loses the December general elections, in reality th

MOZAMBIQUE is considering banning Zimbabwe-bound fuel tankers passing through its borders as they are damaging that country's roads and posing an environmental hazard.

Budgetary uncertainties may make it impossible to expand the school network in the central Mozambican province of Sofala next year.

The Mozambican police have called on opposition RENAMO security guards to disarm, police spokesperson Nataniel Macamo told IRIN after a reported gun battle in the central town of Inhaminga.

A group of 15 armed men, believed to be members of the self-styled "Presidential Guard" of Mozambique's former rebel movement Renamo, on Tuesday attacked a vehicle belong to a building company in the central district of Cheringoma.

Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano declared on Tuesday that the fundamental premise for the construction and consolidation of democracy is the participation of citizens in the life of the nation.

The Construction and Town Planning Directorate (DCU) of Maputo City Council has proposed a provisional lifting of the embargo on the building of a shopping centre in the centre of the city, reports Wednesday's issue of the daily paper "Noticias".