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Mozambique's largest commercial bank, the International Bank of Mozambique (BIM), has reduced the weight of bad loans from 32 per cent of the total credit portfolio in 2002, to 25 per cent at the end of June 2003, to 16 per cent now.

As night fell on Thursday, the group of 40 Mozambicans occupying the German embassy showed no signs of leaving, and their leader even made melodramatic threats that they would rather die in the embassy than give up their struggle.

Donors have threatened to stop financing Mozambique's National Demining Institute (IND), because of alleged irregularities detected in the IND accounts of the last two years, according to a report in the latest issue of the weekly paper "Zambeze"

AIDS has "crippled" at least six Southern African countries, where the life expectancy has fallen to 40 years or less, according to the annual United Nations' Human Development Report (HDR) released on Thursday.

The Australian government has donated books worth about one million US dollars to the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), Mozambique's largest and oldest higher education institution.

The General Commander of the Mozambican Police Force, Miguel dos Santos. on Wednesday criticised policemen whose behaviour is incompatible with police ethics.

The ruling Frelimo party in the district of Buzi, in the central Mozambican province of Sofala, has accused the Catholic Archbishop of Beira, Jaime Goncalves...

A meeting of opposition parties in Maputo on Wednesday spent much of its time discussing two sparsely populated districts, Marrupa in the northern province of Niassa, and Chigubo in Gaza, in the south...

About 40 Mozambicans who were once migrant workers in the now defunct German Democratic Republic (GDR) on Tuesday occupied the German embassy in Maputo.

Early indications from two recent surveys suggest that more than 200,000 people in Mozambique will require emergency food aid.

According to the governor of the central Mozambican province of Manica, Soares Nhaca, the economic crisis in Zimbabwe is leading to a flight of Zimbabwean skilled workers into Mozambique, looking for employment.

The Mozambican police on Monday violently dispersed a group of citizens who were once migrant workers in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), and who were trying to demonstrate in support of their claim for more money from the government.

Police shot one man dead on Saturday morning, during an attempt by three prisoners to escape from the Maputo top security prison.

The amount of money which the Mozambican government has paid or promised to thousands of citizens who were once migrant workers in the now defunct German Democratic Republic (GDR) has risen to the equivalent of about 10 million US dollars, according to a

Mozambican Prime Minister Luisa Diogo on Friday called for strengthened measures of prevention against the HIV/AIDS epidemic, warning that, faced with this disease, "we are all vulnerable".

Mozambican Transport Minister Tomas Salomao said on Thursday that the access channel to the central Mozambican port of Beira is not obstructed to shipping as initially announced by the National Maritime Administration and Inspection Service (SAFMAR).

Officials from the Mozambican Labour Ministry on Friday met with a delegation from the Forum of Returnees from the ex-German Democratic Republic (GDR), to discuss their demands for more money from the government.

Mozambican Agriculture Minister Helder Muteia said in Maputo on Thursday that the government is to impose stricter control and inspections on chicken imports...

The European Commission has signed a contract worth 500,000 Euros (about 600,000 US dollars) with the Mozambican government for the supervision of the supply and installation of equipment for the telecommunications networks in the southern provinces of Ga

A journalist whose reporting annoyed a district administrator has been forcibly transferred, and is now living hundreds of kilometres from his family "in a cubicle that does not provide basic living conditions", according to a report in Thursday'