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Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Sunday declared that Chinese cooperation with Africa is motivated by a genuine desire to help African countries achieve, as quickly as possible, their social and economic development - just as, in the past, China had helped them achieve liberation from colonial rule.

Mozambique's first lady, Maria da Luz Guebuza, has urged veterans of the country's independence struggle to lead the fight against poverty, using the knowledge and experience they gained during the war against Portuguese colonial rule.

The Mozambican government has followed Tuesday's agreement with Portugal on the future of the Cahora Bassa dam by immediately appointing two new directors to the board of the dam operating company, Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB).

The Mozambican health authorities announced on Thursday that cholera is currently under control throughout the country, but warned that further outbreaks could easily occur during the current rainy season.

The transfer of majority ownership of the Cahora Bassa dam from Portugal to Mozambique "is an important landmark in the history of our two countries", declared Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Tuesday night.

The Japanese government has cancelled all of Mozambique's commercial debt to Japan, amounting to the equivalent of 60 million US dollars.

The British NGO Oxfam has warned that climate change will get worse if action is not taken globally and immediately.

Transfer of control over the Cahora Bassa dam on the Zambezi river from Portuguese to Mozambican hands marks the end of "the final redoubt of foreign domination", declared President Armando Guebuza on Tuesday.

Success of Mozambique's public sector reform "depends on how civil servants act as servants of the public, as one of the key pieces in our national struggle against poverty", President Armando Guebuza declared on Monday.

The African Development Bank (ADB) has announced a Poverty Reduction Support Loan to Mozambique of 60 million units of account (about 88 million US dollars) intended to finance the government's Action Plan for the Reduction of Absolute Poverty (PARPA II).

The Mozambican government on Tuesday approved investment of about 300 million US dollars in a project to create tourist infrastructures on Xefina island, in the bay of Maputo, and a bridge to link the island to the mainland, reports Thursday's issue of the daily paper 'Noticias'.

The Mozambican government on Thursday confirmed that President Armando Guebuza and Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates will sign the final agreement on transferring majority ownership of the Cahora Bassa dam to Mozambique next week.

Mozambican Health Minister Ivo Garrido said in Maputo on Wednesday that the government's Central Medical Stores (CMAM) should be in full charge of importing and distributing medicines.

Mozambique's First Lady, Maria da Luz Guebuza, on Wednesday inaugurated a new water supply system that will benefit about 3,000 people, and also provide water for some 1,800 head of cattle and 2,000 goats in the southern province of Gaza.

The Mozambican Education Ministry is planning to decentralise the recruitment of teachers to the provincial level.

The Mozambican Health Ministry is seeking to ensure funding for its strategic plan for the fight against malaria, which requires 60 million US dollars a year from now up to 2009.

The British-based Climate Change Corporation (C3) is working with the government of Buzi district. in the central Mozambican province of Sofala, on a project to produce biodiesel, starting in the first phase with planting 1,000 hectares with the jatropha plant.

The United Nations plans to mobilise around 300 million US dollars in support of the Mozambican government's five year programme and its poverty relief measures over the next three years, declared the recently appointed UN Resident Coordinator, Ndolamb Ngokwey, on Monday.

Mozambique and China have established basic principles to allow staff in the area of science and technology from both countries to exchange experiences and knowledge.

The number of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Mozambique has grown dramatically, implying an enormous increase in the past few years in the number of companies, institutions and individuals with internet access.