Mozambique : News

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Mozambique has been ranked 22nd out of 48 countries in this year's edition of the Ibrahim Index of African Governance, which is the same ranking that it held last year, (AllAfrica)

The Mozambican government is working with the South African authorities to ensure the resumption of full supplies of electricity to the MOZAL aluminium smelter on the outskirts of Maputo. (AllAfrica)

Mozambican schools are highly vulnerable to trafficking in children, the country's former first lady, Graca Machel, warned on Wednesday. (AllAfrica)

The "Green Revolution" in Mozambique does not depend on genetically modified seeds, Prime Minister Luisa Diogo assured the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Thursday. (AllAfrica)

Mozambican Labour Minister Helena Taipo on Thursday accused the country's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, of plagiarism. (AllAfrica)

Mozambican Agriculture Minister Soares Nhaca on Thursday denied a claim by the former rebel movement Renamo that Mozambique has fewer rural extensionists than Swaziland. (AllAfrica)

Chale Ossufo, candidate of Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party for mayor of the northern port of Nacala, has warned that, if elected, he will not take office until there has been a thorough audit of the Nacala municipal accounts. (AllAfrica)

Mozambique's Minister for the Public Service, Victoria Diogo, on Wednesday launched the first edition of the Statistical Yearbook on the public administration, based on the information obtained in the census of state employees in 2007, and subsequently updated. (AllAfrica)

Mozambican civil servants must build a public administration which "provides services of growing quality to citizens and to public and private institutions", and which is guided "by the highest ethical values", urged President Armando Guebuza on Wednesday. (AllAfrica)

The Southern African Network Against Trafficking in and Abuse of Minors (SANTAC) has urged the Mozambican government to step up actions to prevent and combat the trafficking in human beings. (AllAfrica)

The independent Mozambican media company SOICO has relaunched its weekly paper "O Pais" as a daily. (AllAfrica)

Despite the various scandals associated with Mozambique's National Social Security Institute (INSS), it is growing and is in good financial health, Labour Minister Helena Taipo told the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Wednesday. (AllAfrica)

A cholera outbreak in the town of Cuamba, in the northern Mozambican province of Niassa, has killed 12 of the 277 people diagnosed with the disease so far, according to a report in Wednesday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias". (AllAfrica)

Government strategy towards agriculture is to eliminate the need to import rice and potatoes, and slash imports of wheat, declared Agriculture Minister Soares Nhaca on Wednesday. (AllAfrica)

This paper examines how environmental objectives are pursued by donors in a context where aid delivery mechanisms are changing. It cites General Budget Support (GBS) as an example of an increasingly important aid instrument that emphasises domestic commitment to achieve better environmental outcomes. Examples of the use of GBS are given for the cases of environmental mainstreaming in Mozambique and donor harmonisation in Ghana. Five key areas are highlighted which require varying blends of aid instruments for (eldis.org)

JOHANNESBURG Tuesday, August 05, 2008 (IRIN) - In developing countries, where survival is often a daily struggle, people cannot afford to wait for their government to bail them out. Many are living in the grip of climate change, coping with frequent droughts, heavy flooding, intense cyclones and other extreme weather events, and have found ways to adapt: (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Monday, August 04, 2008 (IRIN) - As countries grapple with high food prices, attempts to draw attention to an inefficient food aid delivery system have been pushed to the back burner after the World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks collapsed last week. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Thursday, July 31, 2008 (IRIN) - The world can expect to become about 0.2°C warmer per decade for the next two decades, according to several scenarios prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). Even if the concentrations of all greenhouse gases and aerosols were kept constant at the levels they were in 2000, further warming of about 0.1°C per decade would still be expected. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Tuesday, July 29, 2008 (IRIN) - Climate change is complicated, but it doesn't have to be: (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Monday, July 28, 2008 (IRIN) - The World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a call by the World Bank for a UN resolution to scrap taxes and export controls on food aid purchases, but experts say there is little chance of such a resolution being effected. (irinnews.org)

Workers drip with sweat under the tropical sun as they rebuild a rail line in central Mozambique that could transform a region devastated by civil war, but rich in untapped coal reserves.

The global scientific community will gather in Maputo, Mozambique, 21-24 October, for the 29th General Assembly of the International Council for Science - the first time an ICSU GA will be held in sub-Saharan ...

Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique 23 September 2008 New York Mozambican President Armando Guebuza said in New York on Monday that urgent measures must be taken to check the growing rise in food prices, before ...

Export-Import Bank of India has extended a line of credit of $20 million to the Government of the Republic of Mozambique on May 15, 2008 for financing eligible goods and services including consultancy services ...

Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique Maputo Mozambican Prime Minister Luisa Diogo said on Thursday that Mozambique's fall by two places in the rankings of the World Bank's annual "Doing Business" report was "an ...

The presence of women students and teachers in Mozambique's professional education institutions is very low, the Professional Education Reform Executive Commission warned on Monday. (AllAfrica)

Mozambique now possesses a training centre for soldiers, police officers and civilians chosen to participate in international peace-keeping missions. (AllAfrica)

Mozambique's largest trade union federation, the OTM, on Tuesday insisted on the need for the government to set up the long awaited labour tribunals. (AllAfrica)

The Mozambican customs services have so far dealt with 8,500 certificates of origin for imports and exports, a fundamental document required in order to take advantage of the tariff abolition under the southern African free trade area that came into effect on 1 January. (AllAfrica)

The Mozambican health authorities on Monday, with the support of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and other partners, launched the second phase of "National Child Health Week", with the goal of vaccinating 3.5 million children under the age of five against measles, and giving them all Vitamin A supplements. (AllAfrica)

How might open, distance and flexible learning (ODFL) mitigate the affects of HIV and AIDS on young people and help meet their learning needs? This study explores the possibilities of ODFL through an examination of some of the key initiatives being undertaken to translate national HIV/AIDS policy into practice in Mozambique and South Africa. It draws on interviews and focus groups with young people affected by HIV/AIDS many of whom are out of school along with policy and strategy documents, agency reports and (eldis.org)