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The 1998 contract under which porcelain and gold items salvaged from a 16th century Portuguese wreck were sold at auction in Holland last month violates Mozambican law on the country's cultural heritage, and is therefore null and void..

Prominent Mozambican lawyer Domingos Arouca is suing the Maputo weekly "O Pais" for alleged libel against his family.

As from 1 September, the entire Beira rail system, in central Mozambique, will be under private management, following consultations last week between the publicly owned port and rail company, CFM, and the Indian consortium that won the tender for operatin

Mozambique's former rebel movement Renamo, now the country's largest opposition party, last week manhandled and expelled from its offices a woman who was demanding that the party pay up money it owes her family.

A man whom police regard as a dangerous criminal has escaped from custody by jumping from the window of a courtroom in the central Mozambican city of Beira, reports Tuesday's issue of the Beira daily "Diario de Mocambique".

WOMEN in Business (WIB) are in Mozambique on a five-day working visit to explore opportunities in that country and areas in which women from the two countries can tie business relations.

The Mozambican health authorities say that the cholera epidemic, that has been raging in parts of the country since December, has come under control, thanks both to the onset of winter and the improvement of sanitation conditions in some urban centres.

Business, government touch base on Nepad projects but forum was always going to be a talkshop

So far about 10 businesses, Mozambican and foreign, have expressed an interest in investing in the Limpopo National Park, according to the park's administrator, Gilberto Vicente - but the park is endangered by police and local officials who collaborate

The Mozambican police last week aborted plans by a convicted drug trafficker to escape from Maputo's top security prison, reports Monday's issue of the independent newsheet "Diario de Noticias".

Mbeki surprised not more has been made of country's economic progress. PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki can hardly hide his frustration at how Mozambique's economic revival has gone unnoticed.

Mozambican authorities are working to locate and notify the presumed owners, from South Africa, of some of the 99 vehicles seized as stolen, during the "Makure-2" operation, that ended in Maputo and the adjoining city of Matola last week, reports Fr

The four sugar factories currently operating in Mozambique are employing about 17,130 workers, 2,245 of whom are women, reports Friday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias".

"No African country - including South Africa - has any long term prospect of growth on its own", declared South Africa's Minister of Public Enterprises, Alec Erwin, on Friday.

Mozambican President Joachim Chissano has called on all African leaders to work together, saying they needed to do everything in their power to improve the continent's economic growth.

The Commission for Africa, set up on the initiative of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, "has no place to hide", declared one of its members, South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, in Maputo on Thursday.

The business community has "a critical role to play" in the African development agenda, Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano declared on Wednesday.

Angola is presenting today its investments perspectives in this era of peace in the country, to the World Economic Fórum on África opening today afternoon in Maputo, Mozambique.

South African businesses in Mozambique continue to see high returns on their investments, but locals worry that foreign companies are crowding them out while not creating sustainable jobs.

Mozambique's National Prices and Wages Commission published on Wednesday the new prices of raw cotton for the present harvest, which will begin within the next few days.