Mozambique

PORTUGUESE INTEREST IN CEMENT

Several European companies including Portugal's SECIL and Cimpor and the Scandinavian group Scanscen are lining up for the pre-qualification bids [...]

CREDIT DISCUSSIONS FOR RENAMO

In a bid to find finance for its forthcoming electoral campaign, the opposition movement RENAMO of Afonso Dhlakama has approached [...]

MAPUTO PROTESTS TO PORTUGAL

Mozambique's foreign minister, Pascoal Mucumbi, has formally protested to the Portuguese government against the decision to send five Portuguese military [...]

LOAN FOR FAUNA AND FORESTRY

The end-November management board meeting of the African Development Fund (ADF, part of the African Development Bank group) granted a [...]

VOTES FOR WOMEN

Several public opinion polls, carried out in Maputo in December following social unrest and riots sparked by price increases in [...]

FRANCISCO MASQUIL

An ethnic Ndau like the head of RENAMO, Afonso Dhlakama, and the archbishop of Beira, Jaime Gonçalves, the governor of [...]

HEAVEN ON EARTH

A large delegation from Mozambique led by the head of state, Joaquim Chissano, was in the Netherlands last July to [...]

DEBT AND FINANCING NEEDS

According to figures in the Policy Framework Paper 1994-1996 (ION N° 602), Mozambique's debt amounted to US$5 billion in 1992 [...]

LESSONS OF THE MAPUTO RIOTS

Opening the World Bank consultative meeting on Mozambique in Paris last week (ION N° 601), the head of the Bank's [...]

FIRMS TO BE PRIVATISED

A delegation led by Mozambique's prime minister, Mario De Graça Machungo, met with fifty or so representatives of French companies [...]

FRESH WORLD BANK PROJECTS

The World Bank has added four new projects to its list of financing planned: two for Mozambique, one for Uganda [...]

FRICTION ON INTERCONNECTIONS

Two possible solutions have emerged for the rehabilitation of the high voltage line from the Cabora Bassa dam to South [...]

Spotlight
THE PRICE OF PEACE

Fund donors who met in Paris for the World Bank's consultative group on Mozambique, on December 7 and 8, did their best to back two winning horses in the same race. They recognised that the volume of external aid available [.

BISHOPS FEAR ISLAMISM

Roman Catholic bishops from southern Africa have drafted a document for a conference of Roman Catholic leaders from all of [...]

TIMETABLE FOR REFORMS 1994-1996

In a draft Policy Framework Paper for 1994-1996 dated November 19 which has yet to be reviewed by the World [...]

At the meeting of fund donors of the Cabora Bassa [...]

The European Development Fund committee has awarded ECU 1.95 million [...]

LYNDA CHALKER

Britain's overseas development minister was this week touring southern Africa: [...]

THE BITTER PILL OF AUSTERITY

Mozambique's government has asked the United Nations special representative in Maputo, Aldo Ajello, to back the government's approach to the [...]