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The World Bank has financed a study of the Mozambican postal sector, the preliminary results of which are currently being debated in Maputo by post office officials and other interested parties.

The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, is planning not one, but two extraordinary sittings before the end of this year.

The elected Maputo Municipal Assembly on Tuesday ruled that the Brazilian evangelical sect, the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (IURD), cannot build a cathedral on a corner of one of the city's main thoroughfares, Julius Nyerere Avenue.

THE friendship between Zimbabwe and Mozambique should be translated into concrete initiatives that should bring development and economic empowerment to people of the two countries, the chairman of the Zimbabwe-Mozambique Friendship Association, Mr Dave Po

The Gorongosa National Park, in the central Mozambican province of Sofala, is to receive 500 elephants from Botswana, during the second half of this year, as part of its restocking programme, reports Monday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias".

The spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslims, His Highness the Aga Khan, on Friday joined President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique in announcing the creation of the Aga Khan Academy in Maputo.

Immigration hearings in north America do not usually elicit much interest in Mozambique - but on Tuesday Mozambican journalists will be anxious for news from one such hearing in the Canadian city of Toronto.

According to Mozambique's Deputy Finance Minister, Manuel Chang, the transfer of the Cahora Bassa dam on the Zambezi river into Mozambican ownership could be completed this year, if the negotiations currently under way with Portugal are successful.

The general secretary of Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party, Armando Guebuza, who is also the party's candidate in the forthcoming presidential election, has urged Portuguese businesses to invest in Mozambique, and thus help create jobs and reduce po

PARLIAMENT yesterday approved a Preferential Trade Agreement signed between Zimbabwe and Mozambique that is aimed at boosting trade between the two countries.

No strategy for the fight against poverty can be sustainable "if we are not capable of ensuring, in the best way possible, the integration of the Least Developed Countries into the world economy", declared Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano on We

The Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Ismaili branch of Islam, begins an official visit to Mozambique on Thursday, at the invitation of the Mozambican government.

PRESIDENT Mugabe arrived in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, yesterday to attend the Fourth Summit of the Heads of State of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today approved in principle 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) to

The management of the Limpopo National Park (PNL), in the southern Mozambican province of Gaza, is working with the provincial government to start resettling 6,500 of the 20,000 people living within the park boundaries next year.

The Council of Ministers of the ACP (Africa, Caribbean and Pacific) group on Tuesday stressed the need for the member states to redouble efforts to attain the Millennium Development goals by 2015.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday approved a loan to Mozambique of 22.36 million Special Drawing Rights (SDRs - equivalent to 16.6 million US dollars).

Once again, the convicted murderer, and now convicted fraudster, Momade Assife Abdul Satar ("Nini"), is being treated as a celebrity in some of the Mozambican press.

All is set for drilling the first well in the search for reserves of natural gas in the Inhaminga block, in the central Mozambican province of Sofala, reports Monday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias".

The Angolan Prime Minister, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, will represent President Jose Eduardo dos Santos at the Summit of the Heads of State and of Government of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP), taking place from June 23-24, in Maputo, M