Nampula, Mozambique News

The Mozambican cashew processing industry has benefited, over the last five years, from a line of credit of 50 million US dollars, opened by the government as part of a drive to facilitate access to credit for small and medium companies.

Maputo - The new Democratic Movement of Mozambique on Sunday backed its leader Daviz Simango to stand in a presidential election on October 28, a spokesperson said.

By Greg Mills and Holger Bernt Hansen IT COULD be a scene out of Survivor or Castaway.

Despite American threats to cut off aid unless Mozambique issues work permits for dozens of American health staff, the largest US aid programme in the country, the Millennium Challenge Account , is pressing ahead with funding for development projects in the north of the country.

The construction of a planned $5-billion oil refinery in northern Mozambique has been put on hold after a major investor pulled out, state media reported on Friday.

The Mozambican state has been losing millions of US dollars because of illegal shark fishing by foreign vessels in the country's waters, reports Wednesday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias". The illegal vessels mostly come from Tanzania and operate in the waters off the coat of Memba and Nacala districts, in the northern province of Nampula.

CMI Report, Inge Tvedten The first three in a series of six studies on poverty and well-being in Nampula, the city of Maputo and Sofala, have revealed that there are positive developments in terms of the macro-economic context and in the social sectors of education and health.

The amount of direct investment in geological and mining activity in Mozambique rose from 101 million US dollars in 2004 to 804 million dollars in 2008, the Minister of Mineral Resources, Esperanca Bias, told the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Wednesday.

In his recent talk during the Congress organized by the Saint Joseph's International Missionary College , Father Osorio Citora Afonso, IMC, from the Church in Mozambique, recalled the catechists who were martyred by the Liberation Front in Mozambique between 1975 and 1992.

The World Bank has announced a loan of 44.6 million US dollars to support the implementation of the Mozambican government's Health Service Delivery Project for the period 2009-2014. According to a World Bank press release received by AIM, the loan was approved by the Bank's Board of Executive Directors in Washington on Thursday.

Mozambique is an independent republic which lies on the south-east coast of Africa and forms part of the Southern African region.

Maputo - Four of Mozambique's provinces - Cabo Delgado, Niassa and Nampula in the north and central Zambezia - have been declared free of landmines, the government said.

The death by asphyxiation of 13 prisoners in an overcrowded police cell in Liupo, capital of the northern Mozambican district of Mogincual, on 17 March, was the result of police "negligence and lack of professionalism", said Prime Minister Luisa Diogo on Friday.

MOZAMBIQUE: Worst cholera outbreak in a long time Recent rainfall has lead to a surge in new cholera cases JOHANNESBURG, 25 March 2009 - With resources stretched thin, aid agencies struggling to contain a cholera outbreak across all but one of Mozambique's 10 provinces hope the approaching end of the rainy season will bring some relief.

Three senior Mozambican police officers have been arrested after 13 people died of asphyxiation in an overcrowded police cell last Tuesday.

148 from Joseph Hanlon * Thirteen people died of suffocation in a police cell in Liupo, the capital of Mogincual district in Nampula, on Tuesday 17 March.

The Mozambique government has agreed to carry out an investigation into the deaths of 12 inmates in a prison cell at a jail in the north of the country earlier this week.

Twelve Mozambican prisoners who died in custody this week after being arrested for rioting over a cholera epidemic died of suffocation, officials said on Thursday.

A mob angered by rumors that health workers were spreading cholera has killed four people in northern Mozambique.

MAPUTO, 16 March 2009 - The Mozambican Red Cross has halted its health work in the northern province of Nampula following the killing of two volunteers by the local community, who were convinced they were ...