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Mozambique and Malaysia have decided to relaunch bilateral cooperation, and, as the first step, each country is to appoint an honorary consul in the other.

The Maputo municipal police, in coordination with the City Council's transport and traffic directorate, have impounded over 60 privately owned minibus taxis this week, for irregularities either in the vehicle or in the drivers' documents, reports Fr

The United States embassy in Maputo has offered small sums of money to religious and other organisations to run activities related to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

An agreement on diverting the waters of the Zambezi river is about to be signed in Malaysia on Saturday, although there has been no public discussion on the matter in Mozambique, a country whose vital interests could be seriously affected by any significa

Mozambique is facing a grain deficit of about 430,000 tonnes for the period 2004-2005, despite an 11 per cent growth in overall grain production in the 2004 harvest, reads the report from the country's agricultural authorities on the food stocks for ne

Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano arrived on Wednesday at the Malaysian resort of Langkawi to participate in the 2004 International Smart Partnership Dialogue, due to begin on Thursday.

Several hundred people attended, on Tuesday night, the launch of a biography of one of the more controversial figures in recent Mozambican history, Uria Simango, the first deputy president of the country's liberation movement, Frelimo.

The Mozambican government plans to spend about 700,000 US dollars on research programmes on how to reduce vulnerability to floods.

The total rehabilitation of the 3.8 kilometre bridge linking Mozambique Island, the former colonial capital, to the mainland of the northern province of Nampula is estimated at nine million US dollars, according to a report in Tuesday's issue of the Ma

The Mozambican Education Ministry has admitted that it does not know how many teachers it is employing, and thus fears that it might be paying the same person more than once.

Mozambique's Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy on Tuesday announced slight rises in the prices of most liquid fuels, taking effect immediately.

Recent HIV/AIDS figures for Mozambique show that prevalence rates among the adult population have increased by more than 1 percent to nearly 15 percent.

The total rehabilitation of the 3.8 kilometre bridge linking Mozambique Island, the former colonial capital, to the mainland of the northern province of Nampula is estimated at nine million US dollars, according to a report in Tuesday's issue of the Mapu

AIDS has now become one of the main causes of death in Mozambique, and, if the epidemic continues unchecked, by 2010 one in every three deaths in the country will be caused by AIDS.

Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano declared in Cotonou on Friday that he wants to see closer relationships between the parliaments of Mozambique and Benin, through exchanges of information, experiences and delegations.

The Maputo-based Association of Informal Sector Workers (ASSOTSI) has complained against a decision taken by Agriculture Minister Helder Muteia to tighten control over the import of frozen chickens, reports Monday's issue of the daily paper "Noticia

A new air company, Air Corridor, will start operations in Mozambique as from August, its commercial director, Cesar Mahumane, told AIM on Monday.

The Mozambican government, irritated at the apparently interminable negotiations with Portugal over the future of the Cahora Bassa dam on the Zambezi...

Mozambicans resident in Portugal hope that the decision of the National Elections Commission (CNE) to register Mozambicans in the diaspora as voters will finally lead to them being able to vote in the country's general elections, scheduled for 1-2 Dece

The Mozambican police have arrested at least seven informal market vendors in Maputo, accused of involvement in the illegal sale of primary school text books intended for free distribution, reports Friday's issue of the daily paper "Noticias".