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Mozambican Foreign Minister Leonardo Simao said in Maputo on Thursday that the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) is already yielding positive results in its various areas of action across the continent.

Mozambique and Zimbabwe have agreed to abolish definitively visas between the two countries for holders of diplomatic passports. People living in the border areas will also be allowed to cross from one country into the other without visa formalities.

Mozambique's National Statistics Institute on Friday presented an updated computerised data base on the country's demographic, economic and social statistics, known as ESDEM.

Mozambique's National Council for the Fight against AIDS (CNCS) on Wednesday gave a platform to a notoriously homophobic cleric to vent his spleen and hatred against those people who do not share his sexual orientation.

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) review of Mozambique's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) and economic and social plan for 2003 says the country is well placed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The Mozambican Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy announced on Thursday a rise in the prices of most liquid fuels, of between two and 6.5 per cent, taking effect immediately

Mozambican Prime Minister Luisa Diogo said in Maputo on Wednesday that the government is confident that the World Bank will continue its support to the country's Action Plan for the Reduction of Absolute Poverty (PARPA).

The owners of a major Zimbabwean horticultural company are to shift their business into Mozambique and Zambia, following the illicit occupation of their 224 hectare farm under Zimbabwe's chaotic land reform.

Joana Mangueira, Executive Secretary of Mozambique's National Council for the Fight against AIDS (CNCS), on Tuesday recognised that the anti-AIDS strategies followed to date have not succeeded in halting the spread of the lethal disease.

The local branches in the northern Mozambican province of Niassa of the journalists' union (SNJ) and of the press freedom body, MISA (Media Institute of Southern Africa)...

Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano strongly denounced on Friday the "continuous social exclusion to which the majority of human kind is subject.

THE owners of Kondozi, a thriving Zimbabwean farm seized violently by the government recently, are preparing to move their highly profitable horticultural farming business to Mozambique and Zambia.

The Mozambican Labour Ministry is launching this week a round of consultations to draft the guidelines for revising the country's labour legislation, reports Monday's issue of the daily paper "Noticias".

The Mozambican International Relations Higher Institute (ISRI) signed a bilateral cooperation agreement with the American Southern University in Louisiana on Friday...

Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano said in Baton Rouge, at the USA state of Louisiana, on Friday, that the struggle of the slave descendants in various countries, particularly in the United States, Canada, Brasil...

Mozambican Prime Minister Luisa Diogo on Wednesday expressed satisfaction with the ever wider range of the intervention of the United Nations Education Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO), not only in Mozambique, but in the entire African Continent.

The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, agreed to postopone until 31 May de depositing of the reviewed text of the Constitution with the Standing Commission,

The Brasilian missionary Maria Elilda dos Santos, who denounced alleged cases of trafficking in children and human organs in Mozambique, particularly in the northern Nampula province, left the country on Wednesday, allegedly pressed by Mozambican authorit

Mozambican Justice Minister Jose Abuso defended on Thursday the need to set up community tribunals as a means to improve the performance of the judicial organms at grass roots level and value their role within the communities country wide.

THE Mozambican government appointed an Indian consortium yesterday to rehabilitate and operate the Beira railway system a move that could jump-start investments in central Mozambique, with spin-offs for SA.