Mozambique

NEW HYDRO-POWER PROJECT

The state utility Electricidade de Moçambique is considering the construction of a new hydroelectric power station on the Zambeze river [...]

TWO OPEC LOANS

The OPEC Fund for International Development last month authorized a loan of US$7 million for Tanzania to finance in part [...]

Britain's parastatal Overseas Development Association will soon be financing a [...]

AFONSO DHLAKAMA

The leader of the RENAMO opposition party wound up a [...]

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 [...]

JOSE DE CASTRO

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

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 [...]