Mozambique

HOSPITALS FOR REPAIR

The Mozambican government is to issue an international Call for bids next month for the purchase of equipment to rehabilitate [...]

THE ENVIED POST OF ARMY CGS

The nomination of general Sebastiao Mabote as chief of general staff of Mozambique's armed forces remains a strongly probable hypothesis. [...]

CHURCH FEARS

Roman Catholic archbishop of Beira (Mozambique) Jaime Gonçalves, who has been in Lisbon, met Portugal's head of state Mario Soares [...]

EU AND SADC TALK

Representatives from the eleven-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the European Union met in Lilongwe last week to remove [...]

BRUSSELS TO HEAD SOUTH

Belgium foreign trade minister Robert Urbain wound up a tour of the Republic of South Africa last week with a [...]

A STRANGE FINANCIAL COOPERATIVE

Members of state-owned undertakings and several former members of the Maputo government have just set up a new company called [...]

PORTUGUESE ARE NICELY PLACED

Following the acquisition by Cimentos de Portugal of a majority holding in Cimentos de Moçambique (ION N° 639) comes the [...]

RENAMO (the main opposition party) will hold a national congress [...]

CHILL WIND FROM THE NORTH

Portugal's ambassador to Mozambique Lopes Da Costa is expected to leave his post shortly following insistent requests from the Mozambican [...]

AIR FRANCE AND LAM CAN'T AGREE

Air France's decision to scrap its weekly Paris-Maputo flight via Johannesburg at the end of December, following a serious disagreement [...]

SERGIO VIEIRA

The FRELIMO (government party) MP for Tete Region, Sergio Vieira, has been elected chairman of the parliamentary committee for "national [...]

GERARD SIVILIA

The Frenchman Gérard Sivilia has been appointed to head the [...]

The political opposition party RENAMO has decided that its MPs [...]

PRESIDENT'S CRISIS CABINET

According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, head of state Joaquim Chissano has set up a "crisis cabinet" [...]

French airline Air France has announced that on March 26, [...]

Improvements in port services at Beira (anyway for container handling) [...]

OPEC FUND TAKES PART IN FINESSE

The Opec Fund for International Developmewnt has approved a small [...]

CONTRACT FOR LINE TO SOUTH AFRICA; SWEDISH GRANT

The Portuguese companies Quintas e Quintas and Solidal have jointly [...]

INVITATION TO TENDER

Electricidade de Mocambique (EDM) has just issued an invitation to [...]