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The South African authorities are soon to impose a night ban on taxi-minibuses bound to Mozambique.

The National Elections Commission (CNE) launched in Maputo on Saturday a civic education campaign to sensitize the population to adhere to the voters registration exercise for the forthcoming provincial, local and general elections.

Mozambique's National Roads Administration (ANE) is concerned with the theft of signposts that has reached alarming levels in the central province of Sofala.

Mozambique's Planning and Development Minister Aiuba Cuereneia reiterated on Thursday in Maputo the commitment of his government to do its best for the success of the program Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).

Pro-Cana, a private company with British interests, is set to invest 510 million USD for the construction of a new plant for the production ethanol, sugar and fertilizers in the district of Massingir, southern province of Gaza, in Mozambique.

The Mozambican oil company Petromoc, together with its partners, is working to raise 408 million US dollars to finance a project of production of bio-biofuels.

The expansion project of the alluminnium smelter MOZAL is still on the shareholders cards and at this stage is pending on the availability of electrical power.

Mozambique's exports have reached 2.381 billion USD in 2006, up 36 per cent from the previous year.

The Mozambican government, through the National Roads Administration (ANE), is soon to begin with the rehabilitation works of over 5,590 kilometers of the national roads system, reports the Monday's issue to the daily paper "Noticias".

ISCOS, an Italian NGO, has granted one million Euros (about 1.4 million US dollars) to support the promotion of social dialogue in Mozambique, through the Labour Consultative Commission (CCT).

The Free Trade Area in the Southern African Development Community will be officially launched in August 2008, announced in Maputo this Friday Mozambique's minister of industry and trade, Antonio Fernando.

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and a group of the largest companies operating in Mozambique signed in Maputo, on Wednesday, a new cooperation agreement that seeks to boost the number of country's Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

The Health Research Centre of Manhica (CISM), in the southern Mozambican province of Maputo, has got new results on a product candidate as a vaccine against malaria for children under the age of one, which are to be released before the end of this year, reports Wednesday's issue of the daily 'Noticias'.

The Mozambican government is to invest over 219 million meticais (about 8.6 million USD) over the next five years as part of its strategy for the development of fishfarming in the country.

Raw data released in Maputo, on Tuesday, of the Third General Population and Housing Census show that currently Mozambique has a population of 20,069,738 people, including both nationals and foreigners, against an initial projection of 20,366,910 from the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

The first ladies of the member countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) praised the 27th summit of the organization, that took place in Lusaka on Thursday and Friday, for renewing the commitment of the declaration on increasing from 30 to 50 per cent the representation of women in political positions and in decision-making in this regional community.

The Chinese government is to grant to Mozambique a sum of 1.5 million USD earmarked for the reequipment of a number of Mozambican Armed Forces (FADM) departments, currently in the process of refurbishment.

The Egyptian Embassy to Mozambique delivered in Maputo, on Friday, a donation of food and other materials to assist the flood victims and those affected by the drought in the country.

The increasing demand of base metals in the international market could be one of the reasons fueling the "race" for scrap metals in Mozambique, an activity that often is being supplied with stolen materials, particularly of the iron angle from power lines, electrical cables, among others.

The Mozambican National Disasters Management Institute (INGC) has ordered the destruction of about 170 tonnes of maize meal after laboratory proof that the product is unfit for human consumption because it is in an advanced stage of deterioration.