Mozambique

PRESIDENT'S CRISIS CABINET

According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, head of state Joaquim Chissano has set up a "crisis cabinet" [...]

French airline Air France has announced that on March 26, [...]

Improvements in port services at Beira (anyway for container handling) [...]

OPEC FUND TAKES PART IN FINESSE

The Opec Fund for International Developmewnt has approved a small [...]

CONTRACT FOR LINE TO SOUTH AFRICA; SWEDISH GRANT

The Portuguese companies Quintas e Quintas and Solidal have jointly [...]

INVITATION TO TENDER

Electricidade de Mocambique (EDM) has just issued an invitation to [...]

A Portuguese consortium which includes the firms Quintas e Quintas [...]

CHISSANO'S NEW CABINET

Head of state Joaquim Chissano named former foreign minister Pascoal Mocumbi as the country's new prime minister on December 16 [...]

EDUARDO MULEMBWE

The appointment on December 8 of Eduardo Mulembwe as president of Mozambique's new national assembly was contested by the opposition [...]

FRANCE TO HELP MAPUTO POLICE

France's Fonds d'Aide et de Coopération (FAC), which comes under the cooperation ministry, agreed a financial package in November worth [...]

JEAN MARC ROCHEREAU DE LA SABLIERE

The head of the French foreign ministry's Africa Desk wants [...]

Following the agreement signed last year to set up African [...]

Spotlight
MINING IN SADC: GETTING THE BALL ROLLING

Investment totalling over $200 million was pledged during a Mining Forum staged jointly in Lusaka between Sept. 7-9 by the European Union and the Southern Africa Development Conference (SADC). That could appear modest in view of how far sub-Saharan Africa [.

THE BOOZY WAR

South African Breweries will very probably be able to acquire a 70-percent holding in Mozambique's MacMahon Brewery in Beira, better [...]

MANGISHI ZITHA

The former chief minister of KwaNgwane Bantustan, Mangishi Zitha, has been named South African ambassador to Mozambique. An official in [...]

LATEST GUESSES

Head of state Joaquim Chissano announced this week that 80 percent of his cabinet had already been chosen and the [...]

CHURCH, LADY AND PRESIDENT

Head of state Joaquim Chissano has already managed to get his own back in his diplomatic difference of opinion with [...]

The first-ever summit of the Common Market of East and [...]

SOARES ANNOYS CHISSANO

Mozambique's newly re-elected head of state Joaquim Chissano has taken umbrage over a recent letter from his Portuguese opposite number [...]