Mozambique News

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with students at Sansao Muthemba Secondary School in Polana Canico, Maputo, Mozambique.

Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Armando Guebuza of Mozambique will visit Korea during the next two weeks upon President Park Geun-hye's invitation to discuss investment, energy development cooperation and trade, Cheong Wa Dae said Thursday.

Human Rights Watch accused Mozambique's government and foreign mining companies on Thursday of "serious shortcomings" in resettling communities to make way for coal mines, leaving thousands without proper homes, food or sources of income.

A multi-million dollar "ethical" plantation development in northwestern Mozambique - the initiative of a clutch of Scandinavian faith-based organizations - has faced alleged acts of sabotage by the very people it was designed to assist, illustrating the divisions between foreign benefactors and local communities.

NEW YORK, May 22, 2013 - African Press Organization - Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Instituto Superior de RelaA A es Internacionais, in Maputo on 21 May: Thank you for your warm welcome.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with students at Sansao Muthemba Secondary School in Polana Canico, Maputo, Mozambique.

According to AllAfrica.com Vodacom Mozambique has introduced the mobile money transfer service M-PESA, as popularised by its Vodafone-owned sister company Safaricom in Kenya.

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.