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Regional integration and the Zimbabwean crisis are expected to be high on the agenda of the 27th Summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), that is set to begin this Thursday in Lusaka.

A clinical test of an oral vaccine against cholera, conducted by the Mozambican National Health Institute in 2006 has proved an efficacy of 97.4 per cent.

The National Elections Commission (CNE) has presented a proposal that reduces by 11 million US dollars the cost of the voter registration and elections for the first Provincial Assemblies in the country, due on 16 January 2007.

The 600,000 residents of the town of Beira, capital of the central province of Sofala of Mozambique, are facing an imminent risk of being thrown into darkness due the sabotage of electricity power in the suburb of Maquinino.

The African Development Bank (ADB) has pledged to grant 15 million USD earmarked for the project of capacity building of the rural communities in Mozambique.

At least 5.000 people are reported to have left the resettlement areas in the district of Morrumbala district, in the central province of Zambezia, to return to their houses in the flood prone areas due to the delay in the construction of the new houses.

Mozambique's largest institution of higher education, the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), is seeking resources to create a Higher School of Rural Development (ESUDER) that should open next year in the district of Vilankulo, in the southern province of Inhambane.

The general manager of the National Roads Administration (ANE), Eusebio Siquela, supports the revival of the Road Police in Mozambique to prevent excess load in the country's roads.

The Municipal Council in the southern Mozambican city of Matola on Monday began to demolish 42 homes that are in the path of a drainage channel being built in the neighbourhood of Fomento.

The northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado attained this year a record production of cotton of 43,000 tonnes, compared with 23,000 tonnes in the previous season.

Corridor Sands, the company that won the concession to exploit the titanium-bearing heavy sands of Chibuto, in the southern Mozambican province of Gaza, says that studies on the feasibility of the new design for its project will be ready by March next year.

Uncontrolled bush fires are devastating thousands of hectares in the southern Mozambican district of Namaacha, on the border with Swaziland.

Corridor Sands, the company holding the concession to exploit what is believed to be the world's largest deposit of titanium bearing mineral sands, in the southern Mozambican district of Chibuto, on Wednesday donated a cheque for 390,000 US dollars to finance an initiative to combat malaria.

The Board of Directors of the World Bank on Tuesday approved a loan of 15 million US dollars to Mozambique to help fund the government's Higher Education Project.

Mozambique's Third General Population and Housing Census began on Wednesday, and among the first households to be counted in Maputo was that of President Armando Guebuza The chairperson of the National Statistics Institute, Joao Loureiro, took about 20 minutes to ask Guebuza all the census questions.

The "African Caucus" of finance ministers and central bank governors, meeting in Maputo, on Tuesday stressed the need to ensure success in the 15th replenishment of the International Development Association (IDA), the arm of the World Bank that provides soft loans for developing countries.

The General Inspectorate of Labour in the Mozambican Labour Ministry has denied claims published in Lisbon that its inspectors are "attacking Portuguese companies".

One of Mozambique's most prominent NGOs, the Community Development Foundation (FDC), has expressed serious concern at barriers put in the way of programmes to mitigate the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

A draft memorandum addressed to the heads of the World Bank and the IMF, under discussion in Maputo at the meeting of the "African Caucus" of Finance Ministers that began on Monday, calls for an increase in the representation and voting power of Africa in the two Bretton Woods Institutions.

The exploitation of the titanium-bearing heavy mineral sands in the coastal district of Moma, in the northern Mozambican province of Nampula, could continue for over 100 years.