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www.topix.net | 5/17/12 8:40 PM
Kim Il Sung's August Name Displayed Throughout World

An inaugural meeting for the Japanese Society for the Study of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism took place in Tokyo on May 3. The banana cultivator members of the People's Party of Costa Rica named their party cell after Kim Il Sung in 1945.

www.topix.net | 5/17/12 4:30 PM
Mozambique: University Delegations Must Be Authorised
[AIM] Maputo - The Mozambican Education Ministry announced on Thursday that it is to become obligatory for all institutions of higher education to request authorisation from the Ministry before opening delegations or extensions. allafrica.com | 5/17/12 3:27 PM
Mozambique: Reprieve for 'Special Clinic'
[AIM] Maputo - The new director of Maputo Central Hospital, Joao Fumane, has declared that he has no intention of shutting down the hospital's "Special Clinic", where well-to-do patients can pay for their treatment. allafrica.com | 5/17/12 3:27 PM
Mozambique: Compensation Agreed for Pirate Victims
[AIM] Maputo - The Spanish-Mozambican fishing company Pescamar, which operated the "Vega 5", a vessel seized by Somali pirates in the Mozambique Channel in December 2010, has finally agreed to compensate the 12 survivors of the "Vega 5" crew, reports Thursday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias". allafrica.com | 5/17/12 3:27 PM
Guebuza Urges Culture of Work
[AIM] Maputo - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Thursday urged Mozambicans to commit themselves to work to increase production and productivity as the only way to achieve a better distribution of the gains won thanks to independence. allafrica.com | 5/17/12 3:27 PM
Trip to London a Success, Say Businessmen
[AIM] Maputo - The Mozambican businessmen who accompanied President Armando Guebuza on his official visit to Britain last week say that they regard their time in London as well spent. allafrica.com | 5/17/12 3:27 PM
Mozambique Intensifies Fight Against Immigration In Northern Regions

MAPUTO, May 17 -- The Mozambican police has intensified its struggle against illegal immigration in the northern regions of Cabo Delgado, Nampula and Niassa, according to police.

www.topix.net | 5/17/12 12:15 PM
Movitel confirms official launch in 105 districts

Movitel, Mozambique's third mobile phone operator, announced the official launch of its network on Tuesday, at a press conference in Maputo.

www.topix.net | 5/17/12 11:10 AM
How Deadly Charcoal is Bought and Sold in an African Market

Xipamanine is a sprawling, labyrinthine marketplace in the heart of Maputo, Mozambique's capital.

www.topix.net | 5/17/12 7:01 AM
Country At CPLP Constitutional Jurisdictions Conference
[ANGOP] Luanda - A delegation of the Constitutional Court (TC) led by its presiding judge Rui Ferreira attended a Conference of the Constitutional Jurisdictions of the Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) held from May 14 - 16 in Maputo, Mozambique. allafrica.com | 5/17/12 5:42 AM
Mozambique Anti-piracy drive paying off
Mozambique has said joint efforts with neighbouring countries to fight piracy in its waters are paying off. Regional powerhouse South Africa last year deployed an anti-piracy frigate to the ... www.kenyastar.com | 5/17/12 2:58 AM
Mozambique: Viettel Announces Launch of Mobile Network
[African Press Organization] MAPUTO, Mozambique, May 16, 2012 - On May 15, 2012, Viettel announced in in Maputo, Mozambique, the official launch of Movitel - the group's first mobile network in Africa to join its already flourishing networks in Asia and Latin America. allafrica.com | 5/16/12 5:49 PM
G8 urged to tackle malnutrition, the hidden killer in Mozambique

The ingredients for tree root soup, which has no nutritional value but is a resort for families with no food.

www.topix.net | 5/16/12 4:33 PM
Mozambique: Former Arsenal Transformed Into Nature Reserve

Maputo - The Mozambican government announced on Tuesday that an area once occupied by a military arsenal, in the outer Maputo suburb of Malhazine, is to become an "ecological park". The Malhazine arsenal achieved notoriety when it exploded on 22 March 2007.

www.topix.net | 5/16/12 4:33 PM
Mozambique: Overweight Trucks Damage Motorway
[AIM] Maputo - An average of 100 trucks a day are known to carry cargo that is in excess of the legal weight limit along the Maputo-South Africa motorway, according to the South African company that operates the road, Trans-Africa Concessions (TRAC). allafrica.com | 5/16/12 3:11 PM
Mozambique: ENI Announces New Gas Discovery
[AIM] London - The Italian energy company, ENI, on Wednesday announced a further discovery of natural gas in the Rovuma Basin, off the coast of the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. allafrica.com | 5/16/12 3:11 PM
Guebuza Inaugurates Machel Statue in Matola
[AIM] Maputo - To remember Mozambique's first President, Samora Machel, is to rescue and dignify Mozambican history, declared President Armando Guebuza on Wednesday. allafrica.com | 5/16/12 3:10 PM
Police Arrest Man Suspected of Killing Priest
[AIM] Maputo - The Mozambican police have arrested one of the gang who robbed a Catholic church residence in the southern city of Matola on 3 May, and beat to death one of the priests living there, Valentim Camale. allafrica.com | 5/16/12 3:10 PM
Government Approves Minimum Cotton Prices
[AIM] Maputo - The Mozambican government on Tuesday fixed the minimum producer price for first grade raw cotton in this year's harvest at 10.5 meticais (about 38 US cents) per kilo allafrica.com | 5/16/12 3:10 PM
Mozambique: Former Arsenal Transformed Into Nature Reserve
[AIM] Maputo - The Mozambican government announced on Tuesday that an area once occupied by a military arsenal, in the outer Maputo suburb of Malhazine, is to become an "ecological park". allafrica.com | 5/16/12 3:10 PM
Vietnamese company starts mobile service in Mozambique

Mozambique's third mobile phone operator, a joint venture between Vietnam's Viettel and the ruling Frelimo party, began offering its services to the public Tuesday, targeting the rural masses.

www.topix.net | 5/16/12 10:18 AM
BPCL’s Mozambique reserves 7x RIL’s
The prolific Rovuma basin gas asset in Mozambique, where Bharat Petroleum Corporation has a 10% stake, has struck another gusher. www.dnaindia.com | 5/16/12 3:15 AM
Mozambique: "Who wants to give birth here?"

Knight International Journalism Fellow Mercedes Sayagues published a video which takes viewers on a sad tour of maternity clinics in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.

www.topix.net | 5/15/12 6:34 PM
Khalau Unrepentant
[AIM] Maputo - The General Commander of the Mozambican police, Jorge Khalau, has expressed no remorse for his challenge to the judiciary in late April, which led to calls for his resignation or dismissal. allafrica.com | 5/15/12 5:10 PM
Mozambique: Third Mobile Phone Operator Officially Launched
[AIM] Maputo - Mozambique's third mobile phone operator, Movitel, officially launched its services on Tuesday - although it has in fact been selling its pre-paid phone cards from shops across the country for the past three weeks. allafrica.com | 5/15/12 5:10 PM
Mozambique: Petroleum Company Announces Major New Gas Discovery
[AIM] London - The Texas-based Anadarko Petroleum Corporation on Tuesday announced that it has found a major new gas field in the Rovuma Basin off the coast of the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. allafrica.com | 5/15/12 5:10 PM
Mozambique: Petromoc Becomes Official Importer of Cooking Gas
[AIM] Maputo - The Mozambican government has appointed the public owned fuel company, Petromoc, as the official importer of cooking gas (LPG - liquefied petroleum gas), and has abandoned any further attempt to choose suppliers of gas by international public tender. allafrica.com | 5/15/12 4:55 PM
Mozambique: Contracts for Upgrading Nacala Railway and Port
[AIM] Maputo - Obtala Resources, a company based in the British Channel Islands, has announced that one of its subsidiaries, Montara Continental Corporation, has won the contract to supply timber railway sleepers for Mozambique's northern railway line, which runs from the Malawian border to the port of Nacala. allafrica.com | 5/15/12 4:55 PM
Mozambique: Malawi Wants to Make Greater Use of Beira Port
[AIM] Maputo - Beira (Mozambique), 15 May (AIM) - Malawian President Joyce Banda said on Sunday that her government will use to the full the facilities offered by the central Mozambican port of Beira. allafrica.com | 5/15/12 4:55 PM
Mozambique: Britain Pledges Continued Support to Nation
[AIM] London - British Prime Minister David Cameron has promised that Mozambique will continue to benefit from British development aid, despite the drastic cuts in public expenditure made by Britain's ruling Conservative-Liberal coalition. allafrica.com | 5/15/12 4:55 PM
Under-18 Start Afrobasket Qualifiers With Victory
[ANGOP] Luanda - The national women under-18 team of basketball beat Mozambique by 61-40, in a first leg match of the Afrobasket2012 zone qualifiers taking place in Maputo, Mozambique. allafrica.com | 5/15/12 8:21 AM
Country Supreme Court At CPLP Constitutional Jurisdictions Conference
[ANGOP] Maputo - The presiding judge of the Angolan Constitutional Court, Rui Ferreira, will participate in the Constitutional Jurisdictions Conference of the Portuguese Speaking Countries Community (CPLP) from May 14-16 in Maputo, Mozambique. allafrica.com | 5/15/12 8:21 AM
Mozambique: USAID Pledges U.S.$60 Million Dollars for Health Programme

Maputo - The United States Agency for International Development has pledged to disburse 60 million US dollars over the five year period 2012-2016 to finance a new Health Infrastructure Development Programme .

www.topix.net | 5/15/12 8:05 AM
Security Essential for Development, Says President of Mozambique
[African Arguments] On 8th May 2012 the President of Mozambique, Amando Guebuza, spoke at the latest Oppenheimer lecture in London. Mr Guebuza came to London at the invitation of the Oppenheimer group and used the visit to meet David Cameron and other British and Mozambican dignitaries. allafrica.com | 5/15/12 6:32 AM
Under 18 Basketball Team Beat Mozambique
[ANGOP] Luanda - The Angolan national under 18 females basketball team defeated on Sunday Mozambique by 61-40, in the first round of zone tournament, qualifying for Africa Cup of Nations (Afrobasket2012), taking place in Maputo city (Mozambique). allafrica.com | 5/15/12 6:09 AM
USAID Pledges U.S.$60 Million Dollars for Health Programme
[AIM] Maputo - The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has pledged to disburse 60 million US dollars over the five year period 2012-2016 to finance a new Health Infrastructure Development Programme (HIDP). allafrica.com | 5/15/12 5:44 AM
SNJ Still Waiting for Freedom of Information Bill
[AIM] Maputo - The General Secretary of Mozambique's National Union of Journalists (SNJ), Eduardo Constantino, has expressed concern at the failure of the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, to pass a freedom of information bill that would allow journalists unimpeded access to official sources of information. allafrica.com | 5/15/12 5:44 AM
Stop Distorting Our History, Says Frelimo
[AIM] Maputo - Parties who have no history of their own to take pride in should stop distorting the history of Frelimo, declared the leader of the Frelimo parliamentary group, Margarida Talapa, on Monday. allafrica.com | 5/15/12 5:44 AM
Exclusion of Civil Society From CNE 'Unacceptable'
[AIM] Maputo - The exclusion of civil society from the Mozambican National Elections Commission (CNE), as demanded by Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the former rebel movement Renamo, would be "unacceptable", Margarida Talapa, head of the parliamentary group of the ruling Frelimo Party, warned on Monday. allafrica.com | 5/15/12 5:43 AM
FOOD: Power to the people!
JOHANNESBURG 15 May 2012 (IRIN) - The UN Development Programme (UNDP) launched its first Africa Human Development Report today, stressing food security as a means to a better quality of life for all. www.irinnews.org | 5/15/12 12:00 AM
Angola: Mozambican Trade Minister Jets in
[ANGOP] Luanda - The minister of Industry and Trade of Mozambique, Armando Inroga, arrived in the Angolan capital, Luanda, this Sunday afternoon to attend the meeting of Trade Ministers of the Portuguese Speaking Countries Community (CPLP) to be held on Monday. allafrica.com | 5/14/12 9:47 AM
Mozambique: Govt Preparing New Coal, Hydrocarbon Tenders
[AIM] Maputo - The Mozambican government is preparing international tenders for new blocks in the Rovuma Basin in the far north of the country, which companies interested in exploring for oil and natural gas can bid for, according to the Minister of Mineral Resources, Esperanca Bias. allafrica.com | 5/14/12 5:57 AM
Guebuza Calls for Strengthened Ties With Malawi
[AIM] Maputo - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza stressed on Saturday night that the relations between Mozambique and Malawi should be "structured by an undertaking to make good neighbourliness a fruitful complement to development". allafrica.com | 5/14/12 5:57 AM
Malawi Resumes Interest in Buying Cahora Bassa Power
[AIM] Maputo - The Mozambican and Malawian governments signed on Saturday in Maputo two memoranda of understanding, aimed at encouraging cooperation in the area of energy, and of political and diplomatic relations. allafrica.com | 5/14/12 5:57 AM
New Malawi President Hopes for Improved Relations
[AIM] Maputo - Malawian President Joyce Banda said in Maputo on Saturday that she hopes her state visit to Mozambique will improve relations between the two countries. allafrica.com | 5/14/12 5:57 AM
Malawi Wants Good Relations With the Country
[AIM] Maputo - Malawian Foreign Minister Ephraim Chiume declared in Maputo on Friday that his government is committed to improving relations of cooperation and good neighbourliness with Mozambique. allafrica.com | 5/14/12 5:57 AM
Mozambique: Prominent Photo-Journalist Dies
[AIM] Maputo - One of Mozambique's finest photo-journalists, 48 year old Alirio Joel Chiziane, died in Maputo Central Hospital on Friday evening, the victim of a sudden illness. allafrica.com | 5/14/12 5:57 AM
SA, Mozambique Delegations Arrive in Capital
[Shabelle] Mogadishu - A separate high-level delegation from South Africa and Mozambique on Thursday arrived at Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, reports said. allafrica.com | 5/11/12 5:17 AM
Mozambique: No Advance On Electoral Legislation

Maputo - A last ditch attempt to reach consensus between the three parliamentary groups on amendments to Mozambique's electoral legislation has failed.

www.topix.net | 5/10/12 7:28 AM

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