Mozambique

LOBBYING BISHOPS

A meeting of Roman Catholic bishops from the country's central regions, with religious dignitaries from Beira, Manica, Tete and Zambezia [...]

SANITATION IN THE BEIRA CORRIDOR

Finance projects of the African Development Bank (ADB) group which were set back for later consideration at the Bank's last [...]

Since the beginning of 1994, twenty-three Mozambican nationals have died [...]

SCHNEIDER BEEFS UP PROFILE

Schneider has just inaugurated a new commercial representation office in the region, this time at Kitwe in northern Zambia, it [...]

LEAKY FRONTIERS

The police authorities in the Republic of South Africa are increasingly worried about the apparent incapacity of Mozambique's authorities to [...]

NACALA: PHASE THREE

The parastatal Caisse Française de Développement is to finance a second study on the Nacala-Malawi railway, which will probably be [...]

AFONSO DHLAKAMA

The chairman of RENAMO has suggested to the Portuguese government [...]

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SOUTHERN AFRICAN MINING: EUROPE STEPS SOFTLY

European Commission sources have told AEM that a Southern African mining forum which the Commission's development department (DG-8) has been planning for over a year will not be staged until the end of this year.

20 CONTENDERS FOR EXPLORATION

Twenty companies are reportedly bidding for exploration permits for the [...]

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PRE-ELECTORAL DEAL IN SIGHT

A group of party elites from Mozambique's central region (principally Sofala Province) have launched themselves into an increasingly energetic crusade in favour of negotiations before the multiparty elections due in October 1994, in order to reach agreement between the FRELIMO [.

TIAN ZENGPEI

China's deputy foreign minister left Beijing on February 20 for [...]

REFUGEES ENCOURAGED TO WORK

According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, farm managers in the agricultural regions of Zimbabwe (mainly in Manicaland [...]

FOOD AID IS KILLING OFF PRODUCTION

Farmers in the region of Espungabera-Machaze, an isolated zone in the southern part of Manica Province, have asked representatives of [...]

EDUARDO NIHIA

Mozambique's deputy defence minister (and first secretary of the pro-government party FRELIMO in Nampula Province, in northern Mozambique) denied on [...]

TWO CLIENTS FOR ONE AGENT

The Brazilian public relations agency Vox Populi, which worked on the presidential campaign of Angola's Jose Eduardo Dos Santos and [...]

UNITED STATES SPECIAL INITIATIVE

The United States government is considering establishing a Special Initiative for the countries of southern Africa. The idea was outlined [...]

GOOD FISHING FOR PRIVATE LINES

Mozambique's state-owned Empresa Moçambicana de Pescas (Emopesca), which is a majority shareholder in about eleven companies, is expected shortly to [...]

JOAQUIM CHISSANO

Mozambique's prime minister is distinctly unhappy with his army headquarters staff. Before leaving to attend the annual World Economic Forum [...]

NATIONAL UNION AND LOCAL POWER

The Roman Catholic church in Mozambique is taking up an increasingly critical stance with regard to the electoral process leading [...]