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Maputo — The General Commander of the Mozambican police, Jorge Khalau, has declared that, when it comes to detentions of police officers, the police "do not obey any judge", but follow their own internal regulations, according to a report in Tuesday's issue of the independent daily "O Pais". Khalau was speaking in the northern city of Nampula about the detention
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Maputo - Mozambique's top emergency official said on Wednesday the risk of a tsunami hitting the country had passed, after a regional watch was issued in the wake of a massive earthquake off Indonesia. "If something was to happen, it would have happened by now," the head of emergency services, Dulce Chilundo told AFP. According to their information, she said,
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Maputo - At least 86 people were killed and 60 injured by wild animals in Mozambique in 2011, with crocodiles being blamed for the majority of deaths, the government announced on Wednesday. "The animal that caused the most deaths was the crocodile, which killed 47 people, followed by elephants, killing 20 and hippos, which killed 13," government spokesman Alberto Nkutumula
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Maputo — The latest projected course for Cyclone Irina, currently in the middle of the Mozambique Channel, is that it will make landfall, not on the coasts of either Inhambane or Gaza provinces, as earlier forecast, but in Maputo. The latest warning from the US Navy's Joint Typhoon Warning Centre (JTWC), on Friday afternoon, showed the cyclone diverting further south
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Mozambique's government has refused to let mining giant Rio Tinto use the Zambezi River to transport coal to the Indian Ocean for export, the deputy mining minister said on Friday. The southern African country's environment ministry worried the operation might harm the ecosystem, Deputy Minister Abdul Razak told AFP. "For now, according to the information passed on by Micoa (the
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Maputo - The Red Cross appealed on Thursday for nearly $3m to help thousands of families still waiting for aid after two tropical cyclones that killed at least 12 people in Mozambique last month. "The damage caused by the cyclone is beyond the coping capacity of most affected families and the sooner we provide assistance, the better we can avert
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Maputo — Over 100,000 people in Mozambique are still recovering from losing their homes and crops, and from being cut off from schools and shops after a tropical storm and cyclone hit the southern African country in January. But the worst may not be over as another dangerous cyclone is expected to make landfall Friday evening as emergency stocks run
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Maputo - 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. The arrest of the 25-year-old man for the January 28 kidnapping of a woman in the capital, Maputo, "is the culmination of a process initiated in January following the
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Maputo - Mozambique has signed a 20-year contract with internet cable operator SEACOM to provide broadband access to government institutions and schools, science ministry official Rufino Gujamo said on Thursday. The $2.8m deal will improve communication among government agencies, as part of government's efforts to increase efficiency, he told AFP. SEACOM runs one of two undersea fiber-optic cables running along
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Three young Mozambican poachers will spend 25 years behind bars after they were found with two fresh rhino horns in South Africa's Kruger Park, the national parks agency said Wednesday. A regional court sentenced the trio almost two years after they were arrested, said South African National Parks spokesman Reynold Thakhuli. "We welcome the decision which is the harshest sentence
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The World Food Programme (WFP) will give emergency food to more than 80,000 people in Mozambique after twin cyclones left 32 dead in the impoverished country in January, officials said Tuesday. Mozambique's government requested help for 16,000 families in flood-hit central province Zambezia, said WFP spokeswoman Naomi Scott. "Approximately 16,000 families -- that's what we've been asked to supply for
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Maputo — Mozambican Health Minister Alexandre Manguele has announced that the first anti-retroviral drugs produced in Mozambique, in partnership with Brazil, will be ready by July 2012. This will make Mozambique the first country in Africa to produce its own anti-retrovirals, the drugs that slow down the HIV virus that causes AIDS, and thus prolong the lives of HIV-positive people.
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Maputo - Mozambique's government said on Wednesday it has approved two investment projects in forestry and agriculture worth $660m that will create around 4 000 jobs. Two companies will run plantations in central Mozambique and sugar and cotton fields in the northwest in separate projects covering 90 000ha, according to government spokesperson Henrique Banze. "The government discussed and approved a
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Maputo — 16 elderly women were killed between January and November this year, after accused of being witches, in the district of Marromeu, in the central Mozambican province of Sofala, according to a report in the Beira daily paper "Diario de Mocambique". The issue was raised during a demonstration in Beira against violence against women, organized by the NGO Action
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Maputo — Mozambique's dependence on foreign aid is declining, Finance Minister Manuel Chang told the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Monday. Introducing the state budget for 2012, Chang said that only 39.6 per cent of public expenditure will be covered by foreign grants and loans, with 60.4 per cent of the budget met by domestic resources. In
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Rumours of flesh-eating bananas in Mozambique have sparked a plummet in the sale of the fruit, prompting the health minister Friday to reassure people of its safety. "From the work conducted by the Ministries of Agriculture, Health and Trade and Industry, it was concluded that there is no record of entry of any infected banana in the country," according to
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Maputo — The Japanese government on Monday formalised grants of about 280,000 US dollars to finance education and water projects in Mozambique, which will be undertaken by NGOs. The two education projects involve building classrooms in the Lili Primary School in Nacala district, in the northern province of Nampula, and in the Estrela do Mar Industrial and Commercial School, in
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Mozambique on Thursday launched a $2.1 billion (1.6 billion euro) construction project to connect the southern capital Maputo to a major hydro-electric dam 3,000 kilometres (1,900 miles) to the north. The new high-tension power lines will transport 3,100 megawatts of electricity from the Cahora Bassa Dam to Maputo, overcoming one of the most damaging legacies of a civil war that
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Maputo — Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has formally apologised to the Mozambican authorities for the ill-treatment of two Mozambican journalists who were denied entry to the country in August. On Monday, Angolan Foreign Minister Georges Chikoti delivered the apology to Mozambican President Armando Guebuza. After the audience with Guebuza, Chikoti told reporters that the message gave a detailed
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Lynch mobs in southern Mozambique have killed two people they accused of being witches, state media said Wednesday. "Those who were detained in connection with the death of these people accuse their victims of witchcraft. Some of the detainees are teachers of some schools in the area," state broadcaster Radio Mocambique reported, citing local police in Gaza province. Police have
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Over 700 Mozambican civil war veterans and their families gathered in the country's capital Maputo on Wednesday during a second day of protests to demand pensions from the government. The group of veterans, widows, children, and siblings camped outside the Prime Minister's office on Tuesday, singing revolutionary songs and brandishing placards. "We want the government to pay us a pension
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Maputo — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has declared that Brazil is willing to invest strategically in Mozambique, in order to ensure sustainable development with reciprocal benefits for the two countries. Rousseff was speaking in Maputo on Wednesday evening at a meeting with her Mozambican counterpart, Armando Guebuza, during which the two delegations reviewed the current bilateral cooperation between Mozambique and
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Maputo — The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, on Tuesday will begin her first official visit to Mozambique. President Rousseff's visit is part of a tour of southern Africa that includes a meeting in Pretoria, South Africa, of the IBSA group (India, Brazil and South Africa). After her stay in Mozambique, President Rousseff will travel to Angola. In Mozambique, President
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Mozambicans will this week commemorate the plane crash that killed their first president 25 years ago, unveiling a new monument to a visionary leader whose death shattered a nation's dreams. Atop a hill on the border that joins Mozambique, Swaziland and South Africa 35 steel tubes mark the site where Samora Machel's airplane crashed in 1986. The hollow pipes --
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Johannesburg - Mozambicans will this week commemorate the plane crash that killed their first president 25 years ago, unveiling a new monument to a visionary leader whose death shattered a nation's dreams. Atop a hill on the border that joins Mozambique, Swaziland and South Africa 35 steel tubes mark the site where Samora Machel's airplane crashed mysteriously in 1986. The
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