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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | yesterday
The World Bank has approved a $25 million aid package to assist economic agents in the Mozambican provinces of Inhambane and Nampula who will, until 2014, have access to funding to improve the business climate and increase their competitiveness. The bank said in a statement that this financial packages negotiated with the World Bank by the [...]
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Emergency work on the Sena rail line in the central Mozambican province of Sofala, following a major derailment on 23 June, have been concluded, much earlier than initially expected, reports Friday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias".
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)on Wednesday approved a loan of 176 million US dollars for Mozambique over the next year to counter the effects of the world economic crisis.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
The population of the western Mozambican province of Tete grew by 56 per cent between the censuses of 1997 and 2007, or at an average annual rate of 5.6 per cent.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mozambican computers are now rolling off an assembly line in Maputo, under a deal between the Mozambican government and the South African company Sahara Computers.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Mozambican cashew processing industry has benefited, over the last five years, from a line of credit of 50 million US dollars, opened by the government as part of a drive to facilitate access to credit for small and medium companies.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, has categorically denied claims in some of the press that he has contracted a polygamous marriage with the Renamo delegate in the northern province of Nampula, Lucia Afate.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Almost 17 years after the end of the war of destabilisation, arms caches are still being discovered in Mozambique.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Mozambique's Minister of Public Works, Felicio Zacarias, has confirmed that the new bridge over the Zambezi river, linking the provinces of Sofala and Zambezia, will be named the "Armando Emilio Guebuza Bridge", in honour of the country's current President.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, on Wednesday delivered the nomination papers for its candidates in the October parliamentary and provincial elections to the National Elections Commission (CNE).
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Rabbiting On (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
We left yesterday afternoon, so I am not sure if this counts as Day One or Day Two of the trip, so, let's call it Day One an a Half... There was a lot of last minute stuff to arrange before we could leave Johannesburg to be homeless for six months, from receiving last minute parcels to shipping belongings to Germany, from cancelling gym membership to fitting a steering guard - some of those things...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Mozambique's exports fell in value by 36 per cent in the first quarter of this year, compared with the same period in 2008, according to the latest statistics from the Bank of Mozambique.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
The chairperson of Mozambique's National Elections Commission (CNE), Leopoldo da Costa, on Tuesday warned new members of the Sofala Provincial and Beira City Elections Commissions to refrain from political activities that have nothing to do with their tasks as electoral officials.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
The governor of the central Mozambican province of Manica, Mauricio Vieira, told a press conference on Tuesday there is strong evidence that money has been stolen from the state coffers at the Provincial Directorate of Planning and Finance, reports Wednesday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias".
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Participants at a two day conference on the International Criminal Court (ICC), held in Maputo, on Tuesday urged the Mozambican government to ratify the Rome Statute setting up the ICC, which is the UN-approved body set up to punish those guilty of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, and to end the culture of impunity.