Mozambique News

The deployment of a rapid UN intervention force in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo should be speeded up in view of this week's fresh unrest, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday.

Raising chickens has become so fashionable among some urban Americans that there's now a market for chicken diapers , as we reported this month.

A girl carries a bucket of water on her head while families displaced by the floods wait to be registered under a large tree in Baue resettlement centre, in Mutarrara, Tete Province, in this photograph released by UNICEF on January 21, 2008.

UN secretary Ban Ki-moon has emphasized the importance of countries stepping up their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals MDGs before their 2015 deadline .

Maputo - Mozambique doctors went on strike Monday demanding higher pay and accusing the government of reneging on a January promise to double their wages, the medics association said.

A FASHION show and fun walk put more than A 2,600 into the coffers of a children's heart charity.

Vale-Mocambique, the local subsidiary of the Brazilian mining giant, Vale, has reduced its estimate for coal exports from Mozambique this year by 30 per cent, according to a company representative quoted by Radio Mozambique.

The Mozambican government has approved a bill to increase the number of municipalities in the country from 43 to 53, Mozambiqan news agency AIM reported.

Vale SA, the world's biggest iron-ore producer, said it restarted coal transport from its Moatize mine in Mozambique 's northwestern Tete province today.

As their resident "Rosie the Riveter," Renee Godar of Clarendon Hills rivets a portion of a stabilizer together.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday met with his Mozambican counterpart Armando Guebuza, hailing the African country as an all-weather friend.

While unwilling to disclose the issue of price, Clarke said Diageo, the parent company for Red Stripe, appears to be in a position to "take a substantial amount of cassava in their beer manufacturing"... In January, Clarke said in Parliament that Diageo had offered to pay $1 per pound for cassava.

Indian company Jindal Steel and Power has made its first coal export shipment from its mine in Changara district in western Mozambican province of Tete.

Commencing May 11, with the Oued Ziz , the weekly service will be operated with the following rotation: Tangier, Casablanca, Agadir and returning to Tangier.

British Airways inaugurated services on the 430-kilometre route from Johannesburg to the capital of Mozambique, Maputo , on 6 May.

An International Monetary Fund team visited Mozambique during April 24 to May 8, 2013 to conduct the 2013 Article IV consultation and the sixth and last review under the three-year Policy Support Instrument that was approved in June 2010 .

POUND, bawbee or Scottie which should an independent Scotland go for? Iain Gray looks at the surreal side of currency, with a warning that the colour of our banknotes does matter Alex Salmond is hardly the first politician to get into currency trouble.

Lack of transparency and professionalism when choosing candidates, besides a tendency to determine in advance who will take the institution's positions.

"It has been a great pleasure for me to visit Mozambique as First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF.

In a world where conflict abounds, and less than 20 percent of fragile states are challenged to meet poverty targets by 2015, what can be done to help stop conflict, reduce fragility, and end poverty was prominent at the World Bank's one-day high level Fragility Forum 2013 held at the Bank Headquarters on Wednesday in Washington DC.