Politics | Society | Human rights
Moz allows police killings
afrol News, 29 April - Amnesty International on Tuesday blamed the government of Mozambique for allowing the police to kill and torture people with near total impunity. Read more
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Politics | Economy - Development | Environment - Nature
Climate change threatens Africa
afrol News, 3 April - The development of better meteorological services are crucial for Africa's development and its fight against poverty, considering its vulnerability to climate change, variability and extreme weather events, a conference of finance and economy meeting in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa was told. Read more
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Politics | Economy - Development | Media | Human rights | Society
Media stimulates development
afrol News, 1 April - African media has a very important role in stimulating the continent's development process, concurred the President of African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka.
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Politics | Economy - Development | Society
Mozambique cuts fuel prices
afrol News, 14 February - Mozambican government has decided to reduce the price of diesel for private taxis, a move calculated to end rampant protests over high fuel prices and the alarming cost of living in the country. Read more
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Economy - Development | Politics | Agriculture - Nutrition | Society
Mozambique axes minister
afrol News, 11 December - Mozambican Minister of Agriculture, Erasmo Muhate, has been fired with immediate effect. The axing of the minister who had a 10-month stint in office was contained in a terse presidential communiqué released on Tuesday. Read more
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Politics | Economy - Development
Mozambique takes over Cahora Bassa Dam
afrol News / SANF, 29 November - Ownership of the Cahora Bassa dam on the Zambezi River has finally been transferred from Portuguese control to Mozambican hands at a ceremony witnessed this week by five southern African heads of state and government, but in the absence of the PM from the former colonial power. Cahora Bassa is the region's main power producer.
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Gender - Women | Society
Mozambique: Respecting sex work
afrol News / Gender Links, 26 November - Mozambique's deputy Minister of Women's Affairs and Social Welfare, João Kandiyane, has launched a fight that few men are bold enough to raise. He has called for the urgent establishment of legislation that would lead to the respect of the fundamental rights of sex workers.
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Society
Mozambique: Nyimpine Chissano dies
afrol News / MediaFAX, 20 November - 37-year-old Nyimpine Chissano, the oldest son of Mozambique's ex-President Joaquim Chissano, has died of a heart attack, according to several sources. The Mozambican press earlier had put Nyimpine Chissano in connection with organised criminality, including the murder of Carlos Cardoso, founder and editor of the influential daily independent 'Media-Fax'.
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Politics | Society | Gender - Women | Human rights
Mozambican parliament ignores domestic violence
afrol News / Gender Links, 23 October - When Mozambique’s national parliament opened for its last session for 2007 at the beginning of October, recommendations from the Mozambican Women’s Forum about what could be included for discussion to draft a national Domestic Violence Act were noticeably absent from the agenda. Read more
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Agriculture - Nutrition
Mozambique battles food crisis
afrol News, 9 August - There are indications that Mozambique has found itself in the centre of food crisis, as 520,000 people are battling with high food insecurity in the country's southern and central regions. International food monitors said thousands of Mozambicans are in dire need of immediate humanitarian assistance. Read more
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Agriculture - Nutrition | Economy - Development
First land confiscations in Mozambique
afrol News, 27 June - Also in Mozambique, land policies are now put higher up on the agenda as provincial authorities in Maputo have started implementing national land tenure legislation. Maputo authorities have now followed up on a longstanding threat to cancel the land tenure rights of investors who fail to use the land allocated to them.
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» 11.06.2007 - Safe abortions may soon be legal in Mozambique
» 12.04.2007 - Inquiry reveals Mozambican blast causes
» 11.04.2007 - Inflation in Mozambique remains controlled
» 05.04.2007 - Mozambique celebrates its women heroes
» 28.03.2007 - Mozambique aims to lead "green revolution"
» 26.03.2007 - Govt negligence blamed for Mozambique blast
» 14.03.2007 - Mozambique still a foreign aid economy
» 23.02.2007 - Mozambique Minister spying on lazy workers
» 23.02.2007 - Mozambique plans more dams on the Zambezi
» 02.01.2007 - Tourism sector tops Mozambique investments
» 02.11.2006 - Mozambique press concerned over new media law
» 01.11.2006 - Mozambique discovers its gay minority
» 23.10.2006 - New revelations on troubled Mozambique-South Africa past
» 02.10.2006 - Still donor confidence in Mozambique, despite corruption
» 08.09.2006 - "Corruption in Mozambique's public works tenders"
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