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The Mozambican authorities have decided that the Mozambique Cereals Institute (ICM) should remain in the hands of the state, despite advice from the World Bank that it should be privatised.

The Luabo sugar mill, in the central Mozambican province of Zambezia, may be rehabilitated soon, pending on conclusion of negotiations between the governments of Mozambique and Mauritius, reports Monday's issue of the daily paper "Noticias".

Twenty-six African nations are expected to this week to take part in the World Economic Forum's (WEF) 14th African Economic Summit, being held in Maputo, Mozambique.

Next week\'s African Economic Summit in Maputo \"will be an opportunity to speed up the pace of economic and business reform which is holding back the potential of many African economies\", according to a press release from the organiser

Military exercises involving land, sea and air forces from several member states of SADC (Southern African Development Community) will take place in the northern Mozambican province of Nampula in the first 10 days of June.

Former Maputo mayor Artur Canana has defended his controversial decision to allow the Brazilian evangelical sect, the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (IURD), to build a cathedral on the Julius Nyerere Avenue, in the plush suburb of Polana.

NAMIBIAN published playwright and actor David Ndjavera leaves for Mozambique next Tuesday to attend an intensive children playwriting workshop with dramatists from Sweden and 11 African countries.

Mozambican archaeologists argue that the recent sale in Holland of items salvaged from a Portuguese shipwreck in Mozambican waters was illegal, and that the country's archaeological heritage should remain in Mozambique...

The initial optimism that Mozambique's most notorious assassin, Anibal dos Santos Junior ("Anibalzinho"), would be rapidly returned to his prison cell after he was re-arrested in Canada on Monda...

Mozambique is expecting to produce about 254,000 tonnes of sugar this year, which represents a 20 per cent rise, when compared with the 212,000 tonnes produced last year.

NAMIBIAN published playwright and actor David Ndjavera leaves for Mozambique next Tuesday to attend an intensive children playwriting workshop with dramatists from Sweden and 11 African countries.

The Mozambican government is once more turning to domestic debt to raise funds, by issuing high interest bearing treasury bonds.

The general director of the electoral branch of the Mozambican civil service, the Electoral Administration Technical Secretariat (STAE), Antonio Carrasco, has confirmed that his institution is facing financial constraints..

Mozambique's most notorious assassin, Anibal dos Santos Junior ("Anibalzinho"), the man who led the death squad that murdered top investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso..

Persons unknown have been destroying Mozambique's main north-south highway along the stretch between the administrative post of Muxungue, in the central province of Sofala, and the Save river, to remove stones for house building.

SOUTHERN Africa Development Community stock exchange bosses are meeting in Maputo, Mozambique, early next month to discuss issues affecting the various exchanges.

Mozambique and Mauritius signed on Wednesday cooperation agreements in several areas, with particular emphasis on security and public order.

The Mozambican police on Tuesday evening confirmed that the country's most notorious assassin, Anibal dos Santos Junior ("Anibalzinho"), who escaped from the Maputo top security prison on 9 May, has been re-arrested in Canada.

A preliminary report on an assessment undertaken by a mission from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) describes agricultural production in Mozambique for the 2003/2004 campaign as satisfactory.

The Mozambican Tourism Ministry has pre-selected four tourism operators for the Limpopo National Park, in the southern province of Gaza...