Mozambique

GOVERNMENT AND IOM FACE MAJOR CRISIS

The administration of refugee repatriation and veteran demobilization programmes' finance is behind the conflict facing the Mozambican government and the [...]

The fifteen-month United Nations campaign to repatriate Mozambican refugees from [...]

AIR FRANCE FLIGHTS SHOULD RESUME

French flag carrier Air France's weekly flight between Paris and Maputo via Johannesburg, suspended at end-December following a serious financial [...]

DIDIER DESTREMAU

France's new ambassador to Mozambique to replace outgoing Robert Puissant, who has served since July 1993, has been appointed. It [...]

GO WEST YOUNG MAN

Australia's trade minister Bob McMullan is due to visit Mauritius, South Africa and Zimbabwe from March 23 to 31 at [...]

PULLING UP THE MINES

The precious spin-off of the agreement signed between Mozambique and the White farmers' federations from Natal and Transvaal (ION N° [...]

BEIRA PORT BULK-HANDLING PROJECT

A consortium of Zimbabwean companies says a feasibility study will get under way shortly for a multi-million dollar investment project [...]

EXPLORATION AREAS OPENED

Several onshore and maritime areas have been opened to exploration by Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH). They are located in [...]

Spotlight
A STATE OF GRACE - FOR THE MOMENT

Mozambique's delegation at the World Bank's consultative group meeting, held in Paris on March 14 and 15, received the optimistic welcome traditionally reserved for most brand-new governments, at least for their first few months in office.

MURADE MIGUIGY MURARGY

Mozambique's ambassador to France since 1985 has been appointed principal secretary in the president's office in Maputo. Murade Isaac Miguigy [...]

OIL PERMITS

State-owned oil utility Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH) has recently offered a number of permits for petroleum prospecting in several [...]

SOUTHERN AFRICA GETS CFD BETS

The Republic of South Africa (FFr.218 million) and Mozambique (FFr.213.8 million) were the countries of southern and east Africa which [...]

THE NEXT STRONGMAN

The hypothesis of Mozambique's former deputy defence minister, general Sebastiao Mabote, being nominated as minister of state in the president's [...]

JOSE DE CASTRO

The chairman of the opposition movement RENAMO, Afonso Dhlakama, has announced the nomination of Jose De Castro (originally known as [...]

IACOOB SIMBINDE

The government of Mozambique and the state security services SISE [...]

NGUYEN MANH CAM

The Vietnamese foreign minister Nguyen Manh Cam is to make [...]

The Mozambican delegation to the World Bank's consultative group on [...]

Head of state Joaquim Chissano is "satisfied" with the recent [...]

AFONSO DHLAKAMA

Almost on the eve of the World Bank consultative group meeting on Mozambique (due in Paris in mid-March), Afonso Dhlakama, [...]