Hardliners on both sides have opted for confrontation
Cashew nuts are the biggest export after prawns and sugar is another rare money-spinner. The government wants to protect these industries; the World Bank and International Monetary Fund wanted to open them to world competition. Now the Bank and Fund have ...
The assassination of pioneering Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso in central Maputo on 22 November shows the growing threat to African reporters.
Post-war reconciliation looked shakier after clashes between the opposition Resistência Nacional Moçambicana and police on 9 November. More than 40 people died and over 100 were injured.
Donors switch money into flood relief, the government is washed
off economic course
President Joaquim Chissano's new government in January included several tried and trusted ministers, whose experience has paid off in the flood disaster. The team at Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Minister Leonard Simão and his deputies, Frances ...
The National Summit on Africa in Washington on 16-20 February attracted several star speakers, such as United States President Bill Clinton and Organisation of African Unity Secretary General Salim Ahmed Salim, and some 2,300 delegates. Its aim was to pus...
The government is doing well but the opposition's problems
are growing
His party won December's general elections comfortably but the surprise came when President Joaquim Chissano took only 52.29 per cent of the vote in the presidential poll while his old antagonist, Afonso Dhlakama of the Resistência National Mo&ccedi...
Politicians are scurrying to prepare for the country's second
multi-party general elections: President Joaquim Chissano
confirmed on 31 August that polling would take place on 3-4 December
(probably in the rain, making quagmires of rural roads (AC Vol
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