20110104
AIM

Maputo — The Mozambican fishing vessel, the "Vega 5", seized by Somali pirates last Friday, has been located in the Mozambique Channel heading north, and thus away from its home port of Beira.

20110103
AIM

Maputo — Three Mozambicans are among six people arrested in South Africa after the seizure of 312 kilos of cocaine, with an estimated street value of 316 million rands (47.7 million US dollars).

20101217
allAfrica.com

The recent commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the assassination of Mozambique's best known investigative journalist, Carlos Cardoso, was held at the same place, and at the same time of day, as the attack happened.

20101210
AIM

Maputo — The longest and most detailed of the cables from the US embassy in Maputo, leaked to the world by the whistle-blowing site Wikileaks, contains claims that Mozambican President Armando Guebuza took a kickback of up to 50 million dollars in the handover of the Cahora Bassa dam to Mozambican control, that former Prime Minister Luisa Diogo takes bribes for the ruling Frelimo Party, with a cut for herself, and leading Frelimo parliamentarian Manuel Tome "receives pay-offs openly".

20100907
africanews

Authorities in Mozambique have arrested at least 150 people over last week's riots in which 10 people were killed, the country's state-run radio reported.

20100905
reuters

MAPUTO (Reuters) - Mozambique police were on high alert on Sunday on reports fresh protests over soaring bread prices might erupt in the capital following demonstrations last week that left ten dead and hundreds injured.

20100904
africanews

Maputo — Despite the Mozambican government's drive to increase wheat production, the country still only produces enough wheat to meet five per cent of its annual consumption, according to Agriculture Minister Soares Nhaca.

20100904
africanews

MAPUTO (Reuters) - Mozambique police fired rubber bullets and teargas at demonstrators on Friday as rioting flared in the capital following two days of protests over high bread prices in which ten people were killed and hundreds wounded.

20100903
africanews

The Mozambique got back to work on Friday after two days of rioting, triggered by a sharp hike in bread prices, which the government said left seven dead, 288 injured. Buses resumed normal service and people returned to their jobs, walking along streets strewn with debris, burnt tyres, broken electricity poles and garbage from looted shops. Seven people, including two children, were killed when police opened fire on protesters in the deadliest riots to hit the southern African country of 23 million since 2008.

20100712
reuters

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union and Brazil will sign an agreement with Mozambique this week to develop bioelectricity and biofuels projects, officials said on Monday.

20100601
Reuters

Mozambique police on Tuesday dismissed a South African newspaper report saying the country was home to al Qaeda training camps that could launch an attack on the World Cup.

20100523
ALL AFRICA

Maputo — A journalist appeared before a court in the northern Mozambican city of Nampula on Thursday, accused of libeling parliamentarian Lucia Afate, who is also the Nampula political delegate of the country's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo.

The journalist, Jose Vasco da Gama, had written an article in the weekly paper "Magazine Independente" (MI) on 25 May 2009, claiming that Afate had married Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama at a Moslem ceremony in the Nampula district of Mossuril.