2008-10-14
"I'm Not Guebuza's Candidate" - David Simango
The candidate for mayor of Maputo for the ruling Frelimo Party in Mozambique's third municipal elections, David Simango, has denied claims that he was imposed on the party by President Armando Guebuza.2008-10-14
Not Enough Trained Teachers for 2009
Despite the efforts undertaken to step up teacher training, the Mozambican Education Ministry simply will not have enough trained teachers available to fill all of next year's teaching vacancies. 2008-10-14
Christian Charity Invested 39 Million Dollars Last Year
The US-based Christian charity World Vision on Tuesday announced that in the tax year ending in September it invested about 39 million US dollars in implementing projects in various parts of Mozambique. 2008-10-14
Illicit Medicines And Weapons Seized
The Mozambican authorities, in an joint operation involving the police, customs, health, and forestry and wild life services, seized in Maputo on Friday unspecified quantities of medicines and weapons, including firearms and hunting equipment belonging to a Portuguese citizen named Victor Gomes. 2008-10-14
Attorney-General Wants Speedy Conclusion of Airport Audit
The Mozambican Attorney-General's Office has asked the General Inspectorate of Finance to speed up its audit of the publicly owned airports company, ADM, following extremely serious accusations of corruption leveled against the chairperson of the ADM board, Diodino Cambaza. 2008-10-14
Rural Women's Associations Meet
Cultural, social and traditional problems, such as initiation rites, the large number of households headed by women, and the difficulties put in the way of girls' access to education, are the greatest enemies of the development and empowerment of Mozambican women. 2008-10-14
Oil Exploration Contract With Petronas
The Malaysian state oil company, Petronas, has become the fifth foreign company to sign a contract with the Mozambican government, giving it a licence to explore for oil in the Rovuma basin, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. 2008-10-14
Another Renamo Adviser Resigns
Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, has lost another of his advisers. 2008-10-13
Mozambiqe 20th Team to Next 2010 Round
Mozambique's Mambas crept into the last phase of the African Nations Cup qualifiers last night, some 24 hours after their narrow 1-0 win over Botswana in Gaborone which handed them a lifeline and, eventually, success in their bid to stay in the race for the 2010 World Cup in neighbouring South Africa. 2008-10-14
The Fifth International Peasants Conference in Maputo
A delegation of Unaca-Confederation of Peasants Associations and Farming Co-operatives of Angola is travelling this week to Maputo, Mozambique, to attend the 5th International Conference of the "La Via Campesina" taking place from October 17-120. 2008-10-13
Up to 12,000 New Teachers to Be Recruited
The Mozambican Education Ministry intends to hire between 10,000 and 12,000 new teachers for the 2009 school year. 2008-10-13
Contractor Wants More Money for Zambezi Bridge
The consortium formed by the Portuguese companies Mota-Engil and Soares da Costa has asked the Mozambican government for a further million euros (1.36 million US dollars) to complete the new bridge over the Zambezi, linking Caia in Sofala province to Chimuara in Zambezia. 2008-10-13
Pupils Expelled Over Photo of Beira Mayor
The management of the Manga Secondary School in the central Mozambican city of Beira has expelled two tenth grade pupils for sticking a photograph of the city's mayor, Daviz Simango, on their classroom wall, reports the daily paper "O Pais". 2008-10-13
Renamo Struggle Paralyses Beira Assembly
The elected Municipal Assembly in the central Mozambican city of Beira is currently paralysed, and its members are blaming the city's mayor, Daviz Simango, reports Monday's issue of the Beira daily paper "Diario de Mocambique". 2008-10-13
Renamo Rages Against Mayor of Beira
Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, has denounced the mayor of Beira, Daviz Simango, for "violating the ideological principles of Renamo during his term of office". 2008-10-13
Portugal Willing to Cooperate in Justice Sector
The Portuguese Attorney-General, Fernando Pinto Monteiro, arrived in Maputo on Sunday for a four day visit to Mozambique, at the invitation of his Mozambican counterpart, Augusto Paulino 2008-10-13
First Stone Laid for Maputo Provincial Hospital
Mozambican Health Minister Ivo Garrido and the governor of Maputo [province, Telmina Pereira, on Friday laid the first stone for the Maputo provincial hospital, which will be the largest hospital built in the country since independence in 1975. 2008-10-13
ADB Funds Women's Business Skills
The African Development Bank (ADB) is financing, to the tune of four million US dollars, a project to empower and develop women's business skills in the central Mozambican provinces of Manica and Sofala. 2008-10-13
Guebuza Opens Conference on Corporate Governance
What happens in one company is of interest to other companies, and what happens in the business sector as a whole is of interest to the state and to all of society, declared Mozambican President Armando Guebuza in Maputo on Friday. 2008-10-13
CVRD Hopes to Export Local Coal By 2011
The Brazilian mining giant, the Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD), expects to start exporting coal from its concession at Moatize, in the western Mozambican province of Tete, in late 2010 or 2011. |
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