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The World Bank has made available 954 million meticais (about 40,000 US dollars) to finance 14 projects, submitted by the same number of Mozambican NGOs, who are undertaking activities against the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Maputo city.

Mozambique has invested about 20 million US dollars in 61 projects in a bid to ensure sustainable management of natural resources by local communities.

The spokesperson for Mozambique's National Elections Commission (CNE), Filipe Mandlate, said on Thursday that political party monitoring cannot be made a condition for registering Mozambicans living abroad as voters.

The Mozambican Ministry of Health is hoping to have some 8,000 HIV-positive people on anti-AIDS treatment by the end of 2004.

The Mozambican Criminal Investigation Police (PIC) have arrested four senior officers of the customs service in the western province of Tete in connection with the disappearance of seven 100 kilo bags of tablets of the illegal drug mandrax, reports Thursd

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has given its final approval of a three-year arrangement under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) for Mozambique in an amount equivalent to SDR 11.36 million (about US$16.6 million

Prospection for natural gas at Savane, in the central Mozambican province of Sofala has concluded that there are not enough reserves of gas there to justify its industrial exploitation, reports Wednesday's issue of the daily paper "Noticias".

Currently about 3,300 HIV-positive people in Mozambique are undergoing treatment with anti-retroviral drugs, which prolong the lives of those infected with HIV.

A group of private minibus taxi owners, operating between Maputo city and the suburb of Machava-Socimol, in the municipality of Matola, went on strike on Monday morning to protest against what they described as lack of security in that area, and extortion

The Mozambicans who worked in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the 1980s want an "independent commission" to mediate in their dispute with the Mozambican government.

The Maputo Provincial Elections Commission (CPE) has described voter registration in the province as "positive", with the registration brigades meeting over 70 per cent of their target in the first 14 days of the 18 day period.

A group of private minibus taxi owners, operating between Maputo city and the suburb of Machava-Socimol, in the municipality of Matola, went on strike on Monday morning to protest against what they described as lack of security in that area, and extortion

The number of recorded crimes in Mozambique rose by four per cent in 2003, according to statistics presented at last week's meeting of the police consultative council, and reported in Monday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias".

The water supply company Aguas de Mocambique has reached an agreement with Maputo condominiums on how water used in the common areas of condominiums should be paid for - but the electricity company, EDM, is still refusing to enter into any dialogue with r

The Mozambican police in the southern province of Gaza have seized five tones of sugar, smuggled from neighbouring Zimbabwe, reports Monday's issue of the daily paper "Noticias".

The Mozambican Health Ministry fought a battle with the US government over the use of funding to combat the AIDS epidemic - and won.

The Mozambican Health Ministry fought a battle with the US government over the use of funding to combat the AIDS epidemic - and won.

Mozambique's Minister of Industry and Trade, Carlos Morgado, has warned that new technological processes should not be introduced into Mozambican society without guaranteeing their sustainability.

Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano on Thursday bade farewell to the residents of the district of Chiure, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, saying that this would be the last time he addressed them as president of the country, because a new pres

THERE is need to revive the solidarity week that Zimbabwe and Mozambique used to hold with the view to strengthening ties between the two countries, Mozambique's ambassador Mr Julio Goncalo Braga said yesterday.