Mozambique News
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Maputo - Six Mozambican soldiers were killed on Monday in an attack by militia members on an arms depot, national radio reported. The report blamed Renamo, a former guerrilla group that fought Frelimo, the ruling party, during Mozambique's lengthy civil war that ended in 1992. The early morning attack took place in the central province of Sofala. Local official Rosa
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Niassa — 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. The company Chikweti Forest conceded in a recent environmental impact assessment that the land
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Maputo - Mozambique's Renamo opposition movement rejected an offer of talks with the government on Friday, keeping political tensions high after shootings this month by suspected Renamo gunmen, the deadliest attacks in more than a decade. Renamo, originally an anti-communist guerrilla group that waged a 1975-1992 civil war in the mineral-rich southern African nation, said the proposed location of the
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Muxungwe - While much of Mozambique enjoys the fruits of peace, in one central town recent violence has left unsettling echoes of a civil war that ended more than two decades ago. The streets of Muxungwe are largely empty, except, that is, for the presence of heavily armed and camouflaged commandos on patrol. They are on the lookout for further
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Beira - Mozambique's government will meet a delegation from the ex-rebel group Renamo on Friday, an official said, amid threats of violence that echo the country's brutal civil war. "The interior minister will receive a Renamo delegation at their request," a spokesperson for the interior ministry, Pedro Cossa, told AFP. The meeting follows deadly attacks last week between the former
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Maputo - The Mozambican government has approved a draft of a new petroleum law which will see communities get a slice of the country's oil revenues. The spokesperson for the Council of Ministers, Alberto Nkutumala, said the decision was taken at a session late on Tuesday. "Of the revenues that result from oil operations in Mozambique, a part shall go
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Maputo - Four Mozambican police were killed when armed members of the opposition Renamo party raided a provincial station to try to free more than a dozen colleagues arrested earlier in the week, police said on Friday. Thursday's clash at Muxungue in the central province of Sofala is one of the most serious outbreaks of political violence in a decade
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Maputo - Four police officers and an ex-rebel leader were killed in clashes in central Mozambique on Thursday, a local official said, amid renewed tensions between the government and its former civil war foes. Members of the former rebel group Renamo attacked a police command post in the town of Muxungue, just hours after the police raided a Renamo office
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Maputo — The Mozambican government's main concern in the wake of the January and February floods is "to normalize the life of the population, rebuild damaged infrastructures, and conclude resettlement", declared Prime Minister Alberto Vaquina on Thursday. The government was also concerned to prepare the second sowings in the current agricultural year, "by distributing agricultural inputs to the most affected
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Maputo - Aid workers in flood-hit Mozambique said they were fighting to contain an outbreak of cholera on Wednesday, which has sickened 282 people. Cholera had struck three districts, a United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) representative told AFP. "We have 282 cases as of today," said Emanuele Capobianco. The outbreak happened as disaster officials battle floods that have killed 109
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In the last 10 days, 22 cases of the waterborne disease cholera have been confirmed by laboratory testing in three areas in and around the northern Mozambique town of Pemba, in Cabo Delgado Province. Leonard Heyerdahl, project manager of Africhol - an initiative of Paris-based NGO Agence de Médecine Préventive - told IRIN that from 30 January, "samples started turning
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A charity has withdrawn assistance from flood-torn Mozambique's biggest displaced persons' camp after its administrators allegedly plotted to steal food meant for thousands of people, a report said on Monday. Camp officials near the southern town of Chokwe put down their own names for aid worth $225 000, Gift of the Givers organisation told The Times. "Things went wrong because
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Maputo - At least 70 people have died and 150 000 have been displaced in Mozambique during this year's rainy season, which last week culminated in the flooding of southern parts of the country, authorities said on Wednesday. The latest deaths occurred in the northern province of Nampula, where two kids were killed as their homes collapsed, according to a
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Maputo - Mozambique's military has been called in to help tackle severe flooding that has killed 48 people and is likely to spread to the country's central and northern regions, officials said Tuesday. The armed forces have begun helping with clean-up operations in the devastated southern town of Chokwe, which has borne the brunt of the flooding caused by heavy
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Maputo - Intense flooding in southern Mozambique has displaced at least 150 000 people, the United Nations said on Monday, warning that the figure could yet rise further. "The official figure is 150 000 people displaced in Gaza province," the United Nations spokesperson Patricia Nakell told AFP. A flood surge devastated large swathes of the low-lying southern province last Wednesday
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Maputo - Flooding in Mozambique has killed at least 17 people and displaced tens of thousands more, according to UN figures, as a fresh storm surge was feared on Friday. Severe flooding continues to spread across the south of the country with the Mozambique government and international agencies rushing to ease the humanitarian disaster. -
Xai-Xai - Floods in southern Mozambique have displaced up to 70 000 people and cut power exports to energy-hungry neighbour South Africa in half, officials said on Thursday. The south and centre of the country have been placed on red alert after experiencing the heaviest rainfall since devastating floods killed some 800 people in 2000. In some places current water
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Maputo - The Mozambican authorities raced to evacuate tens of thousands of residents from the flood-drenched south of the country on Wednesday before a fresh swell of water hits. The first phase of the emergency operation kicked into gear, with teams using 10 rescue boats to move 30 000 people from the worst-hit areas around the district of Chokwe. "The
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Maputo - Mozambique will free one of the men convicted of killing celebrated journalist Carlos Cardoso in 2000, in a crime that implicated the president’s family, state media reported Wednesday. A judge signed an early release order for Vicente Ramaya on the grounds of good behaviour, his lawyer told Radio Mozambique. "At the moment we are waiting for the court's
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Maputo - Mozambique authorities on Tuesday considered the evacuation of 50 000 people after heavy rainfall in the flood-struck south, where hundreds died in a major deluge over a decade ago, an UN aid agency said. The waters have killed 35 people since the start of the rainy season last October - 13 in January alone - and eight major
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Maputo - Talks broke down between Mozambique's government and restive ex-rebels Renamo on Monday after three rounds of talks on grievances failed to reach consensus, a Renamo leader said. "They are politicising the civil service, there's discrimination in the armed forces and social exclusion, and no consensus above all on the composition of electoral commission bodies, so that's why the
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Maputo - Mozambique's Renamo opposition party, the rump of a guerilla movement that waged a 16-year civil war, threatened on Thursday to obstruct elections next year unless the mineral-rich southern African nation's government reformed electoral laws. Renamo has repeatedly accused the ruling Frelimo party, its foe in the post-independence civil war that ended in the early 1990s, of rigging elections
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The general director of the office for the Accelerated Development Economic Zones (GAZEDA), Danilo Nala said the initiative rests on the need to rehabilitate and revive an important rail transport network linking the Nacala port to the rich inner parts of Mozambique, Malawi and Zambia. “The transport of merchandise will be solved through three large projects to be implemented in
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Maputo - Mozambique's government has agreed to hold talks with former Renamo rebels led by Afonso Dhlakama, who returned to the bush last month threatening to destabilise the country unless his demands for negotiations were met. "In an extraordinary cabinet meeting held on Thursday, cabinet decided to meet with four members of Renamo in Maputo," state-run Radio Mozambique announced on
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Maputo - Youths in Mozambique's capital have burned tyres and attacked motorists over hikes in bus fees. Witnesses said there had been some arrests after Thursday's protests in Maputo, but police could not be immediately reached for comment. A spokesperson for the governing Frelimo party, Jose Damiao, spoke on state-run radio on Thursday and urged people to be peaceful and
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