Mozambique: Still a Man's Thing? Nov 7, 2008
Boaventura MonjaneMaputo ... The municipal assembly in Maputo, the capital, has 61 members, of whom 26 -- 42 percent-- are women ... S;nia Maria Mboa, 33, is a municipal assembly member for Renamo in Maputo, the capital. (allAfrica.com)
Mozambique Cholera Death Toll Rises To 60 Nov 7, 2008
MAPUTO - The death toll from an outbreak of cholera in Mozambique has risen to 60, a top health official said on Thursday, prompting the government to declare an alert in the country's central province. "The deaths are on the rise, we have 60 people dead now, 20 of them in just two days," Evelina Malora, a senior health department doctor in Manica province, told Reuters in an interview. (Planet Ark, United States)
Cholera Outbreaks Kill 49 In Mozambique, Zimbabwe Nov 4, 2008
MAPUTO - About 40 people, mostly children, have died from cholera in Mozambique's central Manica province, health officials said on Monday, and 9 people have died from an outbreak of the disease in Zimbabwe's capital Harare. "I can confirm that 40 people died from cholera in the past four days and this number is likely to increase due to the number of people seeking assistance; 130 others have been admitted to hospital," Mozambican provincial health director Quinhas Fernandes told Reuters. (Planet Ark, United States)
Press Release: Statement by IMF Staff Mission to Mozambique Oct 31, 2008
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, led by Mr. Robert Sharer, visited Maputo from October 14-30, 2008, to review progress under Mozambique's three-year Policy Support Instrument (PSI) and to discuss the IMF's ongoing support for the country's reform efforts. The mission issued the following statement in Maputo today. (IMF News)
Snapshot From Gorongosa Oct 29, 2008
Greg decided to take me up in the helicopter he often uses to fly back and forth to meeting in Mozambique's capital city of Maputo and to the far flung areas of the park. Gorongosa stretches over 000027C6 1500 square miles and sometimes it can take three hours to travel a mile and a half because of rough terrain and limited roads. (CBS News -- 60 minutes)
Mozambique: Human Trafficking Or Religious Indoctrination? Oct 28, 2008
This is the second case this year of children taken from their homes in northern Mozambique and transported the length of the country in order to study the Koran in Maputo. In the first case, reported in January, 40 children, aged between six and 16, had been herded like cattle into a truck. (allAfrica.com)
Southern Africa: Guebuza Chairs SADC Troika Meeting in Harare Oct 28, 2008
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Mozambique: During Apartheid's War, McCain Supported Renamo Oct 26, 2008
Ambassadorial posts must be approved by the Senate, but Jesse Helms organised an efficient filibuster that kept Wells from presenting her credentials in Maputo for almost a year. She was nominated in October 1986, but only on 10 September 1987 did the Senate finally confirm her nomination. (allAfrica.com)
Can we stop maternal deaths? Oct 25, 2008
Leonel Muchano, Maputo, Mozambique. Being pregnant could be fun, but many African women are lost in a world without male support. (BBC News -- Health)
From a Mozambican troubadour, fetching songs of sanitation Oct 25, 2008
At age 16 or 17, he went to Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, where he finally obtained a properly fitted extension for his deformed limb. Just as fatefully, he brought home something else from that trip: a battered old guitar. (International Herald Tribune)
Southern Africa: SADC Troika Meeting Over Zimbabwe Oct 21, 2008
com: Southern Africa: SADC Troika Meeting Over Zimbabwe (Page 1 of 1). Use our pull-down menus to find more stories. (allAfrica.com)
Mozambique: President Praises Planned Anti-Retroviral Factory Oct 18, 2008
He was speaking in Maputo at a state banquet offered in honour of his Brazilian counterpart, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, who is on a two day visit to Mozambique. Guebuza said that the number of HIV-positive Mozambicans receiving the life-prolonging anti-retroviral therapy has risen from about 6,000 in January 2005 to over 100,000 now. (allAfrica.com)
Mozambique: Brazilian President Wants Better Cooperation Oct 17, 2008
He expressed his concerns at official discussions he held with his Mozambican counterpart, Armando Guebuza, shortly after arriving in Maputo for a two day visit to Mozambique ... Speaking at a Maputo press conference, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said that delays in implementing agreements might result from the lack of any habit, until a few years ago, of Brazil cooperating with other countries. (allAfrica.com)
48 hours in Maputo Oct 15, 2008
Article By: Rebekah Kendal Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:22 Ravaged by decades of civil war, with little more than dilapidated buildings and petty criminals on offer, Maputo has long been regarded as little more than an overnight stop on the way to the tropical beaches in the north of Mozambique ... Cathedral of Nossa Senhora da Conceicao Maputos famous cathedral, built in 1944 in dedication to Our Lady of Conception, is situated in Independence Square at the top of Av Samora Machel ... A luxury ferry... (iAfrica.com)
* SOUTH AFRICA 2010: Kaka, Robinho lead Brazil to victory Oct 14, 2008
Mozambican hopes hinged on Angola depriving Uganda of second spot in Group 4 and when Uganda came from behind to edge Benin 2-1 in Kampala and Niger led Angola 1-0 in Luanda, it looked ominous for the Maputo Mambas. But a second-half recovery saw the Angolan Black Antelopes score three times within 21 minutes to claim a 3-1 victory and pip the Ugandan Cranes on goal difference after both countries garnered 10 points. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Egypt complete second round with easy win Oct 14, 2008
We had no idea that we had made it until we made it back to Maputo, Mozambique s Dutch coach Mart Nooij told Reuters by telephone on Sunday. It was only when we got home that we found out that we had just made it by goal difference. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Sports)
African roundup: Egypt goes through but Senegal, DR Congo and Angola no Oct 13, 2008
"We had no idea that we had made it until we made it back to Maputo," Mozambique's Dutch coach Mart Nooij told Reuters by telephone on Sunday. "It was only when we got home that we found out that we had just made it by goal difference. Now we are out celebrating.". (International Herald Tribune -- Sports)
Child traffickers target Mozambique schools, activists say Oct 13, 2008
MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) Graca Machel, a Mozambican human rights campaigner and the country's former first lady, appealed to schools Saturday to take more action to prevent children being kidnapped and sold into prostitution. Machel, who is married to former South African President Nelson Mandela, said Mozambique was targeted by child traffickers because it did too little to protect the young. (USA Today -- News)
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Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 10/03/08 08:46:36 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 75% Barometer: 29. (Florida Today)
Mozambique: 2.5 Billion Dollars for New Power Line Sep 24, 2008
5 billion US dollars in a new electricity transmission line from the western province of Tete to Maputo ... The current line from the Cahora Bassa dam on the Zambezi southwards does not go anywhere near Maputo or other urban centres in southern Mozambique ... Electricity is then imported from South Africa to supply Maputo. (allAfrica.com)
Mozambique: Cheap Rail Travel Boosts Cross-Border Trade Sep 19, 2008
Angelina Sidumo is one of the hundreds of traders that throng the busy train station in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, on most Wednesday afternoons to catch the once-weekly train south to Chicualacuala town in Gaza Province, an 18-hour journey covering nearly 500km ... "It is a long journey from Maputo city to Gaza," remarked Sidumo, who was sheltering from the intense glare of the sun in the shade of a carport outside the station ... "The journey takes almost a full day, but for me it is the... (allAfrica.com)
Zimbabwe: Agreement No Panacea - Guebuza Sep 17, 2008
com: Zimbabwe: Agreement No Panacea - Guebuza (Page 1 of 2). Use our pull-down menus to find more stories. (allAfrica.com)
Mozambique: Bishops Urge Electorate to Vote Sep 13, 2008
com: Mozambique: Go Out And Vote, Catholic Bishops Tell Countrymen (Page 1 of 1). Use our pull-down menus to find more stories. (allAfrica.com)
Mozambique: The Goal is Clean Water for All Sep 11, 2008
Each morning Sophia Santos wakes up early, picks up two 20-litre plastic containers and walks to a neighbour's house in Polana Cani;o 'A', a sprawling suburb in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, for a day's supply of water ... The sale of water in urban areas is illegal, but some homes that have piped water charge for the service because access is often so difficult for many of Maputo's 1 ... But the privatisation of public utilities has also been government policy; the water system in Maputo and... (allAfrica.com)
Wildfires sweep southern Africa, kill at least 89 Sep 10, 2008
(09-10) 03:25 PDT MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP). Officials say at least 89 people have died in wildfires sweeping through Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
Mozambique Fires Kill 49 People Sep 10, 2008
MAPUTO - The death toll from bush fires in Mozambique this month has risen to 49, with more than 2,000 others left homeless, the government said on Tuesday. "Our evaluation of the uncontrolled bush fires in the first week of September shows that 49 people were killed, 23 others seriously injured in the bush fires which swept across the central provinces of Manica and Sofala," cabinet spokesman Luis Covane said. (Planet Ark, United States)
* SOUTH AFRICA 2010: Squirrels down Antelopes to advance Sep 9, 2008
An Ivorian team lacking injured strikers Didier Drogba, Arouna Kone and Aruna Dindane took an early second half lead in Maputo through Bakary Kone, only for Mozambique defender Almiro Miro Lobo to equalize four minutes later. Congo left it late to keep alive hopes of advancing from Group 10, with Wilfried Endzanga scoring the only goal against pacesetters Mali three minutes before full-time in Brazzaville. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Mozambique: Take Bush Fires Seriously, Says Guebuza Sep 8, 2008
Guebuza was speaking in Maputo, shortly after laying a wreath at the Monument to the Mozambican Heroes, on the occasion of "Victory Day" - the 34th anniversary of the agreement on Mozambican independence, signed in Lusaka on 7 September 1974 between the Portuguese government and the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO). According to the government's relief agency, the National Disasters Management Institute (INGC), the fires have also destroyed three schools, two warehouses, 307 peasant barns,... (allAfrica.com)
Mozambique: Guebuza Meets Top U.S. Official Sep 8, 2008
com: Mozambique: Guebuza Meets With Jendayi Frazer (Page 1 of 1). Use our pull-down menus to find more stories. (allAfrica.com)
Bush Fires Kill 32 in Mozambique Sep 8, 2008
MAPUTO - Bush fires killed 32 people in central Mozambique this week, destroyed houses and made thousands homeless, a relief agency said on Friday. The director of Mozambique's National Disaster Management Institute (INGC), Joao Ribeiro, said the fires were driven by strong winds and fuelled by high air temperatures and dry grass. (Planet Ark, United States)
Mozambique: Food Crisis Can Be Solved, Says Guebuza Sep 6, 2008
Speaking at the official opening of the 44h edition of the Maputo International Fair (FACIM), Guebuza said that the industrialized world has already reached high levels of productivity in its agriculture, and does not have much room to expand agricultural production. But many developing countries "have extensive areas whose productive potential is yet to be exploited. They have a wide range of opportunities for technological applications that can lead to a rapid increase in agricultural... (allAfrica.com)
Why the UN needs to reform, meaningfully, the way it handles environmental issues Sep 6, 2008
stuart, maputo, mozambique. All the 'real issues', poverty, famine, disease, and war, are inexorably linked with each other and the environment. (BBC News -- Science)
Africa:Top Soccer Teams Play Away Games Sep 5, 2008
Group leaders such as Angola, who will take on Benin in Cotonou, or C te d'Ivoire, scheduled to play Mozambique in Maputo, will at the very least take home draws. Mali will sell their skins dearly at Mademba Debat Stadium in Brazzaville against Congo s Red Devils. (allAfrica.com)
Through a window Sep 4, 2008
Here, the first signs of dawn are seen by Erin Graves while travelling from Maputo to Xai-Xai on a bus in Mozambique. Spencer Millsap took this picture of the view looking out of his guest house window while staying in Cederburg in South Africa. (BBC News -- Africa)
Mozambique: Press Freedom 'Something Strang' for Local Officials Aug 26, 2008
Freedom of the press in Mozambique shrinks the further one moves away from Maputo, according to Tomas Vieira Mario, the chairperson of the Mozambican chapter of the regional press freedom body, MISA (Media Institute of Southern Africa). Interviewed in Monday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias", Vieira Mario, who was re-elected for a further two year term of office at a MISA general meeting last week, said that the great openness the media enjoy in Maputo "sometimes hides the real country from... (allAfrica.com)
Bank Group Officials Attend Turkey-Africa Cooperation Summit Aug 22, 2008
Turkey is expected to become the 25th Non-Regional Member of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group following the approval of its application by the Boards of Governors of the Bank Group at the 2008 Annual Meetings in Maputo, Mozambique. The Boards of Directors of the AfDB Group had considered the application as well as a special Bank capital increase required to actualize Turkey s membership in March 2008. (allAfrica.com)
The colour purple Aug 21, 2008
Stefan Kuna took this photo in South Africa's Mpumalanga province whilst driving from Johannesburg to Maputo, the capital of neighbouring Mozambique. A woman dressed in lilac hard at work was captured by Mathias Kirkegaard in Nigeria. (BBC News -- Africa)
Moseying through Moz Aug 20, 2008
everything stashed in secret places, a road-trip through Mozambique taught Rebekah Kendal the meaning of 'flexible (iAfrica.com)
Business 'bordered' off Aug 9, 2008
"The Mozambique customs requirements ... and the time these processes take makes imports for the South African market through Maputo very expensive," said Brenda Horne, chief executive officer of the Maputo Corridor Logistics Initiative (MCLI) ... The MCLI consists of investors and service providers from Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland who promote what it calls the Maputo Development Corridor as the region's primary transportation route. (iAfrica.com)
36-year-old carries Mozambiques medal hopes Aug 7, 2008
The government named an avenue in the capital, Maputo, after her and her old primary school now bears her name. This is her last Olympics and she will definitely do her best and we hope she can at least go to the podium, said Fagilde. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Sports)
Weather: Partly cloudy, afternoon storms likely Jul 30, 2008
Melbourne, FL 32940 Last Updated: 07/30/08 08:45:41 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 97% Barometer: 30. (Florida Today)
Mozambique: Siba-Siba Murder - Four Questioned Jul 19, 2008
But on 11 August 2001, Siba-Siba's body was found lying at the bottom of the stairwell at Austral headquarters in central Maputo ... But both the then head of the Maputo branch of PIC, Antonio Frangoulis, and the then Interior Minister, Almerinho Manhenje, were reported as wanting to keep Viegas in the country. (allAfrica.com)
Zimbabwe: Businesses Propping Up Mugabe Next On EU Sanctions List Jul 19, 2008
Meanwhile reports from Maputo, Mozambique say authorities in that country are considering setting up temporary refugee screening centres for thousands of Zimbabweans who have fled across into its territory. Relevant Links. (allAfrica.com)
Africa:Continent Worst Hit By Oil Prices Jul 18, 2008
In the Agricultural sector, Malawi has built its Agriculture Development Programme around the pillars of NEPAD Agriculture Programme known as the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme and the budgetary allocation of 10 percent is in line with the 2003 NEPAD Maputo Declaration. Malawi is implementing NEPAD supported projects in fisheries and science and technology and has also forwarded the Agriculture Development Programme and the Shire/Zambezi Waterway project to the NEPAD... (allAfrica.com)
Mozambique approves large biofuel project to counter rising fuel prices Jul 17, 2008
Six people died during riots in the capital, Maputo, earlier this year. Today in Africa & Middle East. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
Mozambique: Millennium Challenge Actions to Start in September Jul 15, 2008
com: Mozambique: Millennium Challenge Actions to Start in September (Page 1 of 1). Use our pull-down menus to find more stories. (allAfrica.com)
Rebel Chief Wants New Peace Talks Jul 13, 2008
He said he met Mr Chissano last week in Maputo and had another meeting with chief mediator Dr Machar on July 50. AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over , plus more than , who are responsible for their own reporting and views. (allAfrica.com)
Gas 'to power Mozambique' Jul 13, 2008
The country's gas is currently sent to South Africa for processing, and the BBC's Jose Tembe in the capital, Maputo, says Mozambique needs to build its own processing plants to avoid relying on South Africa to bring the price down. Mr Zucula told the BBC's Network Africa programme that Mozambique was looking for other investment partners. (BBC News -- Africa)
Food is metaphor for Mandela's struggles in book launched with a banquet celebrating his 90th Jul 6, 2008
Trapido sat in the kitchen of the home in Maputo, Mozambique where Mandela and his Mozambican third wife, Graca Machel, spend part of every year. She cooked with some of her subjects. (International Herald Tribune)
Mozambique: Portugal Cancels Country's Debt Jul 3, 2008
An agreement to that effect was signed in Maputo on Tuesday between Mozambican Finance Minister Manuel Chang and his Portuguese counterpart Fernando Teixeira dos Santos. Negotiations about the debt had begun in late 2005 and, a few months ago, the technical negotiations were completed, thus making it possible to sign Tuesday's agreement. (allAfrica.com)
Mozambique's informal street traders strive to survive Jul 1, 2008
MAPUTO, Mozambique - The Sunday morning madness outside the Lhanguene cemetery is starting to calm, but Titos Ernesto's eyes are still hawklike as he takes in the trash-strewn parking lot. On the far right, one of his men is washing a car. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
Mozambique: Police Abort Demonstration for Zimbabwe Jun 28, 2008
The Mozambican police on Friday afternoon forced the cancellation of a demonstration in central Maputo in solidarity with the people of Zimbabwe, on the grounds that not enough policemen were available to guarantee the security of the demonstration. At very short notice a few dozen people gathered at Robert Mugabe Square on the Maputo seafront intending to march to the Zimbabwean embassy, in protest at the state-sponsored violence that reduced the second round of the presidential election to a... (allAfrica.com)
Mozambique: Child Malnutrition Has Worsened Jun 21, 2008
The rise over these years in the malnutrition rate among children under the age of five from 36 to 46 per cent was the sombre backdrop for Wednesday's launch, at a Maputo Symposium of Food and Nutritional Security, of the government's Second National Food Security Strategy, and its Plan of Action, which will run from this year to 2015. Addressing the opening session of the symposium, President Armando Guebuza stressed that "with hunger, nobody can make full use of their strength. With hunger... (allAfrica.com)
Maputo corridor booming Jun 18, 2008
Craig McFadyen of Sothebys International Realty, operated by Lew Geffen says: "The KMI airport as well as the relatively new N4 or 'Maputo Corridor', which links Nelspruit directly to Gauteng and Maputo has resulted in a booming city. Now the largest CBD along South Africas major eco-tourism belt, there is huge development in both residential and commercial sectors.". He says the CBD is expanding to such an extent that many residences on its outskirts are being rezoned for commercial use,... (iAfrica.com)
Mozambique warned of possible revolt Jun 18, 2008
MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) -- Thousands of destitute Mozambicans who fled anti-foreigner violence in South Africa may revolt against their home government if their needs are not met, according to a woman with a unique perspective on both countries. Graca Machel-Mandela, shown in April, told Mozambique it must help the destitute who have returned. (CNN -- World)
Mozambique: Second Wave of Reforms Aims to Share Wealth Jun 17, 2008
"But since I returned I have been looking after my family working as a dealer and supplier of goods such as TVs, radios and cellphones and other services. I make more money that way," he said, outside his kiosk situated in the narrow streets of the poor residential district of Polana Canico, on the outskirts of the Mozambican capital, Maputo ... According to the African Development Bank's (ADB) 2008 Economic Outlook Report released in May at the bank's annual conference in Maputo, only eight... (allAfrica.com)
AfDB Hosts Congo Basin Forest Fund Jun 17, 2008
Many of aspects of its environmental policy, including African responses to challenges presented by climate change, were raised by Bank Group President, Donald Kaberuka, during the May 14-15, 2008, Annual Meetings in Maputo, Mozambique. . (allAfrica.com)
Mozambique struggles to accommodate refugees from South Africa Jun 16, 2008
Maputo, Mozambique - Three weeks ago, Regina Nhantumbo was running away from her home and her business, away from the mob dancing around another lynched Mozambican, away from South Africa ... Which is why, at the Beluluane transit camp in the industrial outskirts of Mozambique's seaside capital, Maputo, Nhantumbo sits on a reed mat donated by the government while her son plays nearby in the soft, reddish dirt ... There are few people in this newly constructed tent village most refugees... (Christian Science Monitor)
Mozambique to open drug plant Jun 15, 2008
By Charles Mangwiro Maputo. Mozambique has approved the construction of a $23 million (R187 million) pharmaceutical plant that will manufacture drugs to treat HIV/Aids, malaria and other conditions. (Business Report, South Africa)
Southern Africa: Looking for Answers to Xenopobia's Rise Jun 12, 2008
"Migration in southern Africa is a fact of our lives. I can say this is a part of our culture before colonialism, apartheid and after colonialism. We have to live with migration. There's no way we are going to stop the migration," Graca Machel, activist and wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela, said at a regional conference on xenophobia this week in the Mozambican capital of Maputo. But Machel added a rider to her address at the gathering of civil society organisations that... (allAfrica.com)
Mozambique: Citizens March Against South African Pogroms Jun 9, 2008
She was speaking in Maputo on Saturday, at the end of a peaceful march in protest against the anti-foreigner pogroms in South Africa, that resulted in the deaths of at least 62 people, around half of them Mozambicans ... The marchers, mostly young, carried their banners and placards through the streets of central Maputo to a rally in independence Square, in front of Maputo City Hall. (allAfrica.com)
Mozambique: Health System Could Treat Many More HIV Victims - Minister Jun 7, 2008
Speaking at a Maputo press conference, held to announce that Mozambican President Armando Guebuza will attend the High Level Session of the United Nations General Assembly on HIV and AIDS, scheduled for 9-11 June, Garrido said that the figures as of the end of April showed that 101,198 Mozambicans were receiving ARV. Over a quarter of these (27,406) are in Maputo. But he added that many more people need ARV treatment. (allAfrica.com)
S.Africa apologises for attacks on Mozambicans Jun 5, 2008
MAPUTO, June 4 (Reuters) - South Africa on Wednesday officially apologized to Mozambique for the deadly two-week anti-foreigner attacks which left 30 Mozambicans dead and drove 37,000 others back home. "There is so much sorrow for what has happened. We offer our sincere apologies", South African High Commissioner to Mozambique, Thandi Lujabe-Rankoe said. (AlertNet)
Mozambique: Healers' Practices Under the HIV Spotlight Jun 4, 2008
Ruth Ansah AyisiMaputo ... Nonetheless, the atmosphere was uneasy in May 1st Health Clinic, situated in one of the bustling suburbs in the heart of the capital, Maputo ... The country's 600 doctors are concentrated in Maputo. (allAfrica.com)
Mozambique: Putting the Tourist Dollar in the Pockets of the Poor Jun 4, 2008
Time is one of the few commodities that duty manager Susana Diniz, 28, does not have much of as she attends to a stream of guests booking into the 158-room Holiday Inn hotel in Mozambique's capital, Maputo ... The 2008 African Economic Outlook Report, released by the ADB at the conference, noted that although Maputo led all Mozambique's other regions in formal employment - 33 percent - it still had an unemployment rate of more than 44 percent ... Hotels, lodges and leisure resorts have blossomed... (allAfrica.com)
