Maputo water system to be improved

The government has announced five major projects to improve the water supply system in the Greater Maputo area. The works will affect the capital and the neighbouring towns of Matola and Boane. Contracts have already been awarded and the work...

Science and technology park for Mozambique

Work is underway to build a science and technology park in Maluana in Manhica district, about 80 km north of Maputo. The facility is the first of four such parks planned for Mozambique under the government’s Science, Technology and Innovation...

New buses for Maputo

The Maputo public transport company TPM is to take delivery of 50 new buses starting in February in a bid to improve services in and around the city. The consignment will take to 195 the number of TPM buses in...

Maputo to Brazil direct flights

Direct flights to Brazil will be available from Maputo by mid 2010, according to Macauhub online. A spokesman from Mozambique’s ministry of tourism gave the news at the recent Lisbon Travel Market. “After the recent inauguration of the Maputo/Luanda route...

Maputo gets more power

Maputo’s city council has been handed administrative control of many of its educational and health care facilities, as well as commercial and industrial activities, by the central government. As of 1 January Maputo controls 150 primary schools (with about 5,000...

Maputo gets jobs from foreign investment

In the first nine months of 2009 Mozambique gave the go-ahead to 78 private investment projects in the country worth nearly $US 700 million; 60 per cent of the total investment came from foreign investors according to O Pais, the...

New traffic laws in Mozambique

New traffoic regulations came into force on 8 December 2009 in a bid to improve safety on Mozambique’s roads. The main novelty concerns the obligation for all vehicles to carry a red reflective warning triangle and a fluorescent polyester vest...

New medical clinic for Maputo

Expatriates in Mozambique will soon have access to a new private medical clinic in Maputo. The Maputo Trauma Centre and Well Woman Clinic is located in Avenida Julius Nyerere and is scheduled to open in April 2010. The facility is operated...

Turtle nesting season begins

Turtle season is officially underway in Mozambique and local animal protection groups are making their usual call for people to help guarantee optimum conditions for nesting and hatching. On 7 November Dolphin Care-Africa, a non-profit organisation that works to conserve...