Mozambique

EDUARDO MULEMBWE

The appointment on December 8 of Eduardo Mulembwe as president of Mozambique's new national assembly was contested by the opposition [...]

FRANCE TO HELP MAPUTO POLICE

France's Fonds d'Aide et de Coopération (FAC), which comes under the cooperation ministry, agreed a financial package in November worth [...]

JEAN MARC ROCHEREAU DE LA SABLIERE

The head of the French foreign ministry's Africa Desk wants [...]

Following the agreement signed last year to set up African [...]

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MINING IN SADC: GETTING THE BALL ROLLING

Investment totalling over $200 million was pledged during a Mining Forum staged jointly in Lusaka between Sept. 7-9 by the European Union and the Southern Africa Development Conference (SADC). That could appear modest in view of how far sub-Saharan Africa [.

THE BOOZY WAR

South African Breweries will very probably be able to acquire a 70-percent holding in Mozambique's MacMahon Brewery in Beira, better [...]

MANGISHI ZITHA

The former chief minister of KwaNgwane Bantustan, Mangishi Zitha, has been named South African ambassador to Mozambique. An official in [...]

LATEST GUESSES

Head of state Joaquim Chissano announced this week that 80 percent of his cabinet had already been chosen and the [...]

CHURCH, LADY AND PRESIDENT

Head of state Joaquim Chissano has already managed to get his own back in his diplomatic difference of opinion with [...]

The first-ever summit of the Common Market of East and [...]

LUCRATIVE LUCK FOR MAZULA

Businessman Ventura Mazula, who heads the North American-based trading firm Zambeze Trading Company, looks like being awarded a profitable government [...]

SOARES ANNOYS CHISSANO

Mozambique's newly re-elected head of state Joaquim Chissano has taken umbrage over a recent letter from his Portuguese opposite number [...]

ELECTORAL BILL FOR RENAMO

The Portuguese company Documentos & Eventos (D&E), which worked out the strategy of RENAMO's electoral campaign and then supervised its [...]

INCREASED FRONTIER CRIME

According to Zimbabwe's commander of Manicaland Province, senior assistant commissioner Ngonidzashe Gumbo, eighteen cases of serious crimes including murder and [...]

BARGAINING STRENGTH OF RENAMO

Outgoing head of state Joaquim Chissano was officially designated on November 18 as the first-round winner of the presidential election, [...]

A GOVERNMENT OF COMPETENCE

Although proclamation of the official results of Mozambique's recent general and presidential election (ION N° 645) has been postponed until [...]

AFONSO DHLAKAMA

RENAMO leader Afonso Dhlakama is believed to be waiting for the post-electoral excitement to calm down before calling on the [...]

The Maputo authorities authorized the creation at the beginning of [...]

JOAQUIM CHISSANO

Sources claim that Zaire head of state Mobutu Sese Seko [...]