Mozambique

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US TRADE PROPOSALS

The US administration of president Bill Clinton has taken a series of initiatives to revitalise US trade in Africa by targetting certain markets. The Republic of South Africa and, by extension, southern Africa will be the hard core of this [.

TOUGH TEST AHEAD FOR DHLAKAMA

The leader of RENAMO, Afonso Dhlakama, is due to head for Lisbon on November 27 for a key meeting with [...]

Italy's foreign minister, Beniamino Andreatta, has informed the United Nations [...]

PORTUGUESE MILITARY ARRIVE

Portugal's military advisers in Mozambique are expected to begin training a group of ninety military personnel this week, with one-half [...]

THREE AID CONVENTIONS WITH FRANCE

During his visit to Maputo (November 5 to 8, see ION N° 594) to chair the joint Franco-Mozambique cooperation committee, [...]

ETHNIC CONFLICT IN BEIRA

The Roman Catholic archbishop of Beira, the Reverend Jaime Gonçalves, says he is again the target of attempts by the [...]

The United Nations special representative in Mozambique, Aldo Ajello, was [...]

MOCUMBI IN LISBON

Mozambique's foreign minister, Pascoal Manuel Mocumbi, called a meeting of his country's ambassadors in Lisbon last week, to brief them [...]

PORTUGUESE RETURN

Portugal's business community and in particular those who for many years were close to the RENAMO opposition movement are now [...]

PORTUGUESE SUPPORT FOR RENAMO

A special operations unit of Portugal's public security police is setting up and training a unit of bodyguards which will [...]

BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI

The United Nations secretary general announced on October 20 a [...]

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ESKOM APPEALS TO EC

For nearly 10 years Eskom chief Ian McRay has been championing the idea of an interconnection between Southern Africa's electricity grids and he seized the occasion of a conference staged on Oct. 14-15 by the Brussels Club on the theme [.

MINING FORUM SET

The date and venue for a mining forum that the development department of the European Commission has been preparing for [...]

HOW MUCH FRENCH AID?

France's cooperation minister, Michel Roussin, is due to visit Mozambique at the beginning of November and will possibly use the [...]

AFONSO DHLAKAMA

According to information from Renamo headquarters, at Maringue in central Mozambique, the movement's leader, Afonso Dhlakama, is increasingly out on [...]

CONDITIONS FOR REFUGEES' RETURN

An agreement is due to be signed on October 15 between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and [...]

FRONTIER PROBLEMS

The Mozambique government has suspended the delivery of visas at the frontier posts of Namaacha and Ressano Garcia and says [...]

A catholic university is to be established in Beira and [...]

ALEXANDRE DOS SANTOS

Interviewed by Portugal's daily Jornal de Noticias on October 4, [...]