Mozambique

FINANCE SCANDAL IN DEFENCE MINISTRY

The chief-of-staff of the Mozambican armed forces, general Hama Thai finds himself today at the centre of a financial scandal [...]

DETAILS OF THE UN PEACE OPERATION

The United Nations Operation for Mozambique adopted by the UN Security Council last week, provides for the deployment of 8,000 [...]

The donors conference on Mozambique in Rome last week, pledged [...]

On a trip to the South of the country, on [...]

BRUCE ANDERSON

David Hoile, the executive director of the Mozambique Institute, a [...]

MOATIZE AIMS AT 10 MN MT/YEAR

Production at the Mozambique coal mine Moatize, which is currently 100,000 t/year and is exported to Zimbabwe, could jump to [...]

MAPUTO REORGANISES ITS CORRIDORS

The Mozambican government has given the go-ahead for the three main ports and railway networks in the country (Nacala, Beira [...]

INTEREST IN MOATIZE COAL

South African firm Transnatal and Brazilian company Compana Vale Rio Doce (CVRD) have both shown interest in coal to be [...]

The United Nations Security Council decided on December 16 to [...]

ENEAS COMICHE

Presenting his 1993 budget plan to the Mozambican parliament, the [...]

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THE COSTLY BUSINESS OF PEACE

The Mozambican government has estimated its external financing requirement for 1993 at almost 1.2 billion dollars, including 419 million dollars of rescheduled debt. But to this figure has to be added the cost of three programmes that spin off the [.

OPPOSITION REACTIONS TO FUTURE ELECTIONS

The opposition Democratic Party of Mozambique (Pademo), considering that multi-party general and presidential elections twelve months after the signature of [...]

A Kenyan boat carrying an unspecified cargo was intercepted at [...]

Speaking at the World Bank Consultative Group meeting in Paris [...]

SOUTH AFRICAN BENTONITE PROJECT

A South African company may soon find itself mining Mozambique bentonite, reserves of which have long been known to exist [...]

NEWS ON NACALA RAILWAY

French consortium SOMAFEL-BORIE SAE-DEHE has presented a plan to the heads of the Mozambican railway company for repairs to 77 [...]

The Mozambican authorities are disappointed with the delay in the [...]

FRIENDS OF RENAMO

The Mozambique Institute, the British organisations that is lobbying on behalf of Mozambican opposition movement Renamo, has an advisory council, [...]

DEBT SWAPS ON HOLD

The recent rescheduling agreement for Mozambique's debt to Portugal provided for a quarter of the public debt, about fourteen million [...]