Culture - Arts | Travel - Leisure Africa prepares for carnival season
afrol News, 1 March - Africa's many carnivals are not the most internationally known, but Cape Verde, Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique carnivals have long traditions. Newcomer Seychelles this year offers a tourism-adapted carnival.
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Economy - Development Major gas discovery off Mozambique
afrol News, 9 February - A US oil company has announced "a string of major deepwater natural gas discoveries off the coast of Mozambique." The discoveries believed to be are large enough to secure commercial use.
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Politics | Economy - Development | Society Mozambique drug barons "protected by President"
afrol News, 10 December - Mozambique is becoming a major narcotics transit point in Africa, with US diplomatic sources pointing at two of country's main businessmen as drug barons. Both are protected by the President.
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Economy - Development | Environment - Nature Mozambique smelter ignores pollution limits
afrol News / Savana, 20 November - The large aluminium smelter Mozal, set up as a major Mozambique industry investment by foreign capital, is emitting polluting fumes and dusts emissions bypassing filters. Complaints are ignored.
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Health | Economy - Development Mozambique fears AIDS spread along new roads
afrol News, 14 May - Mozambique is rapidly improving its road and rail connections with neighbouring countries, most of which have higher HIV prevalence. Government now wishes to halt the expected boost in HIV infections along these inroads.
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Travel - Leisure | Economy - Development First road links Tanzania, Mozambique
afrol News, 13 May - Developers and tourists have increasingly found their way to scenic and sparsely populated northern Mozambique, but nearby top destination Tanzania could only be reached by a rough pirogue river crossing. A new bridge changes this.
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Culture - Arts | Society Movie industry discovering Mozambique
afrol News, 13 April - The movie industry seems to have discovered the potential of Mozambique. 'Margarida' and 'A república di mininus' are the two new feature movies that have just started their filming in Mozambique these days. Both are coproductions between Mozambique, Portugal and France.
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Economy - Development | Agriculture - Nutrition | Politics | Environment - Nature Mozambique strengthen ties with Viet Nam
afrol News, 26 March - More Vietnamese agricultural experts are expected in Mozambique next month as part of the two countries technical cooperation to boost food security and fight poverty in the Southern African state.
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Economy - Development Mozambique gets €12m budget aid
afrol News, 24 March - The Italian government has approved of euro 12 million to be given as direct budgetary aid to Mozambique. This is the first time since Italy makes use of this trust-based aid type since 2004.
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Politics | Economy - Development | Agriculture - Nutrition | Society Mozambique to carry out agric census to gauge poverty
afrol News, 1 March - Mozambique is expected to sign a grant deal with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Italian government that will give capacity to the country to strengthen its agricultural production statistics.
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Economy - Development Mozambique to award gas tenders
afrol News, 22 January - Mozambique’s gas giant, Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH) is expected to announce the awarding of two major tenders that will complete the putting in place of infrastructure and the distribution of gas in the country.
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Economy - Development | Politics Benga coal mining approved
afrol News, 11 January - Riversdale Mining has announced it has received the approval of its mining activities in Mozambique following the completition an Environmental Impact Study (EIS) last year.
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