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Representatives of the four companies that are bidding for the lease on the Moatize coal mines in the western Mozambican province of Tete met with the Mozambican government on Friday.

The Mozambican government is planning to privatise the management of the country's four fishing ports, in Maputo, Beira, Quelimane, and Angoche, reports Monday's issue of the daily paper "Noticias".

High levels of political violence, repressive legislation, and the ruling party's abuse of the publicly-owned media are some of the factors that call into question the possibility of free and fair parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe next year.

Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano on Thursday inaugurated an electricity sub-station in the town of Cuamba, which brings power from the Cahora Bassa dam on the Zambezi to the northernmost province of Niassa.

More than 300 students of the Engineering Faculty at the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) in Maputo, Mozambique's largest university, embarked on a strike on Thursday in protest against what they describe as the misapplication of academic regulations.

The Mozambican government has just sold off the derelict textile company Textil do Pungue, in the central province of Sofala, to a group of Mauritian investors, according to a Sunday report on Mozambican Television (TVM).

Since the new mayor of Maputo, Eneas Comiche, was sworn into office in February, the City Council has embargoed, or even ordered the demolition, of 20 buildings, that were being constructed in violation of the Council's norms.

The government of the northern Mozambican province of Niassa is concerned over what it should do about the five tonnes of ivory it has in stock.

The Mozambican and Tanzanian police have decided to step up joint patrols of the Rovuma river, which forms the border between the two countries, in a bid to check drug trafficking, illegal migration, and other illicit activities, reports Thursday's iss

Mozambique largest treatment programme is changing the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS.

Without investment in new energy projects, Mozambique is in danger of running into an electricity shortage as from 2007, the chairman of the publicly-owned electricity company, EDM, Vicente Veloso, has warned.

The largest AIDS treatment programme in Mozambique, that funded by the Italian NGO, the Sant'Egidio Community, claims a spectacular success rate, with 95 per cent of its patients still alive, and enjoying a good quality of life.

On the top floor of the Maputo Central Hospital is the most modern laboratory of any public health service in Africa.

The Brazilian mining giant, the Vale do Rio Doce Company (CVRD), reiterated on Tuesday its interest in operating the coal mines at Moatize, in the western Mozambican province of Tete.

Afonso Dhlakama, the leader of Mozambique's former rebel movement Renamo, has demanded that the voter registration, which took place between 28 June and 15 July, be repeated.

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The Construction and Town Planning Directorate (DCU) of Maputo City Council has slapped an embargo on the building of a shopping centre by the MBS group in the central part of the city...

The Mozambican Ministry of Public Works on Monday announced the creation of a Zambezi Bridge Project Office, within the National Road Administration (ANE), to take control of the building of a new bridge over the river linking Sofala and Zambezia province

The Mozambican police arrested in Maputo last week two Liberian citizens, a man and woman, who were swindling people by selling them magical boxes that could allegedly transform worthless scraps of paper into US dollar bills, reports Monday's issue of

The Mozambican government is now allocating a little more than six per cent of its annual budget to agriculture, as part of implementing the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), which is itself part of the New Partnership for A