Mozambique News

Jacqueline Bates was happy as a Penn State economics major, but she couldn't help feeling like there was something missing in her academic life -- she wanted to find a way of applying her major in a more meaningful way.

Here follows the raw, unedited State of the Nation speech delivered by President Zuma on February 9 2012, as made available by the government information website .

Maputo - The Kazakhstan-based company, the Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation is planning to build a railway from the western Mozambican province of Tete to the northern port of Nacala, according to its general manager, Paul Craven Speaking in Cape Town to the "Dow Jones Newsletter", Craven said the ENRC railway was planned to handle an initial ... (more)

Maputo - A 35-year-old woman walked through a field in northern Mozambique, near where a group of teenage boys were undergoing their ritual circumcision into adulthood.

The known death toll from tropical depression 'Dando' and cyclone 'Funso', which hit southern and central Mozambique in January, has risen to 40, according to the government spokesperson, Deputy Justice Minister Alberto Ntutumula.

Maputo - The Mozambican, South African and Tanzanian governments have established a platform to coordinate their efforts to fight against piracy and other illicit activities on the high seas.

The technology crisis is largely due to the war that engulfed the nation some years back.

Ten Mozambican business people have been abducted since October by what police believe is a specialised kidnapping syndicate, a police spokesperson said on Tuesday after a suspect was arrested.

A Somali, part armed militia, part pirate, carries a heavy-calibre automatic weapon on a beach in the central Somali town of Hobyo.

Maputo - Mozambique has risen by over 30 places on the Press Freedom Index compiled every year by the Paris-based organisation Reporters Sans Frontieres .

The Mozambican and Swazi capitals, Maputo and Mbabane, have agreed to cooperate in the areas of youth, education, tourism, investment, arts and culture, sport, urban management, trade, and small and medium enterprises.

Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Monday received a business mission from the United States, which is seeking to discuss possible projects for investment in the area of energy.

Maputo threatens to switch off Zim Monday, 06 February 2012 00:00 Reprinted From the Zimbabwe Herald MOZAMBIQUE has threatened to cut off power supply to Zimbabwe over a US$5 million debt.

Southern Mozambique hosts one of the continent's best kept secrets, the Marrabenta Festival, an event which celebrated five years this month.

Maputo - A floodgate on the Cahora Bassa dam on the Zambezi river, in the western Mozambican province of Tete, will stay open three days longer than initially planned, but this is not expected to lead to any flooding on the lower reaches of the river.

EDWIN Ekiring stayed top of the Africa ranking, despite bowing out during the second round of the Uganda International Badminton Championships on Saturday.

Sunrise is only for the early birds in Mozambique, though this time of the year it is quiet late, it is after 5! Taken at Maringanha's beach near Pemba.

A woman in Maputo province of Mozambique looks out on to farmland which has been flooded as a result of recent tropical storms, Dando and Funso.

Food is a basic human right and people's recognition, protection and realisation of this right is very critical.

Maputo - The Mozambican police have complained that the families of businessmen of Asian origin kidnapped by criminal gangs are not cooperating in the investigation - but prominent members of the Asian community claim that some policemen are involved in the kidnappings.