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Recent reports of political skirmishes between the ruling FRELIMO party and the main opposition, RENAMO, ahead of Mozambique's general elections in December, are a cause for concern, say analysts with the Electoral Institute of Southern Africa (EISA).

One of the mouthpieces of the Zimbabwean government, the state-owned "Herald" newspaper, has published a vicious personal attack against prominent Mozambican journalist Fernando Goncalves, editor of the independent weekly "Savana".

Millions of dollars in aid are expected to be pumped into Mozambique's new national AIDS strategy this year - a move that may mark a turning point in Mozambique's battle against HIV/AIDS.

Mozambican Health Minister Francisco Songane on Saturday said he knew nothing about any decision by the Brazilian government to renege on its promise to build a pharmaceutical plant in Mozambique to manufacture the anti- retroviral drugs that prolong the

The bodies of 99 Tanzanian soldiers who died fighting Rhodesian and apartheid aggression in Mozambique are being returned to their homeland, and the task of collecting the bodies from their temporary resting places in Mozambican cemeteries begins on Satur

The Mozambican foreign minister, Leonardo Simão, today in Grand Baie (Mauritius), highlighted the fact that the peace being enjoyed in Angola is contributing to improve regional integration.

The price of day-old chicks rose in Maputo from 12,000 meticais (about 50 US cents) to 15,000 as from Thursday as a result of the ban imposed on the import of poultry products from neighbouring South Africa because of an outbreak of bird flu in that count

ZIMBABWEAN-OWNED company - Benyka SociedePesqueira LDA - is battling to get more than US$12 million compensation from the Mozambican Ministry of Fisheries following the cancellation of their fishery project licence without notification four years ago.

Armed members of Mozambique's former rebel movement Renamo have murdered three policemen in the town of Inhaminga, in the central province of Sofala.

Holland has announced that it will grant about two million euros (2.4 million US dollars) to finance pilot investment projects undertaken by small and medium companies in Mozambique.

Trans-African Concessions (TRAC), the company that runs the motorway between Maputo and the South African town of Witbank, plans to increase its tolls again, for the second time in less than a year.

THE Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco) intends to inject a further US$500 000 into its cotton project in Mozambique for the 2004/2005 season.

Mozambican poultry farmers and importers of chicks and eggs for breeding are considering importing these goods from Europe following the ban imposed this week on the import of South African poultry produce because of an outbreak of bird flu in that countr

Mozambique's ambassador to Angola, Antonio Montoso, manifestededly admired with the northern Malanje province's touristic resources, whose highest reference are the Kalandula Waterfalls.

What was once the largest textile factory in Mozambique, Textafrica in the central city of Chimoio, has been stripped of all its machinery, reports Wednesday's issue of the independent newsheet "Mediafax".

"We have a right to know that the institutions of state power are not in the hands of bandits !", declared prominent Mozambican economist Roberto Tibana on Wednesday...

Striking students from the engineering faculty of the Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique's largest university, went back to classes on Monday.

The German government on Tuesday pledged to channel aid of 7.5 million euros (about nine million US dollars) in direct support to the Mozambican state budget.

The Mozambican livestock authorities have imposed a ban on imports of poultry products from South Africa because of an outbreak of bird flu, notified in at least two ostrich farms in the Cape region, two weeks ago, reports Tuesday's issue of the daily

The current record prices of crude oil on the world market will not have any immediate impact on fuel prices in Mozambique, the deputy national director of energy, Iolanda Cintura, told AIM on Tuesday.