Environment - Nature | Economy - Development
African forestry firm secures HSBC investment
afrol News, 24 September - United Kingdom (UK) based New Forests Company announced today that it had secured a US$8.5m equity investment from HSBC Principal Investments, to help highlight company's plans to become east Africa's largest tree planter. Read more
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Agriculture - Nutrition | Economy - Development
US$31.1m loan to Mozambican farmers
afrol News, 18 September - International Fund for Agriculture and Development (IFAD) has granted a US$31.1 million loan to Mozambique to enable small-scale farmers in southern African state to increase their incomes by marketing their surpluses more profitably. Read more
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Society | Environment - Nature
Scores die in Mozambican veld fires
afrol News, 5 September - At least 32 people were killed and scores injured in veld fires which destroyed more than 16,000 hectares of arable land in three central provinces of Mozambique. The fires have also displaced thousands of people in the region. Read more
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Environment - Nature | Gender - Women | Society
Mozambican women eaten by lions
afrol News, 29 July - Two Mozambican women have been reportedly eaten by lions close to the country's northern national park. The weekend killings had brought the number of people killed by wild beasts in Cabo Delgado province in the last six months to 14.
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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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» 31.10.2007 - EC approves Mozambique fisheries partnership
» 26.10.2007 - African democracy progresses
» 23.10.2007 - Mozambican parliament ignores domestic violence
» 22.10.2007 - Mozambique ex-leader bags Africa leadership prize
» 09.08.2007 - Mozambique battles food crisis
» 27.06.2007 - First land confiscations in Mozambique
» 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
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