Sociedade de Notocias, the publisher of Mozambique’s main daily paper “Noticias”, the Sunday paper “Domingo” and a sports weekly, “Desafio”, Rádio Moçambique and Televisão de Moçambique have launched a competition to promote the country’s historical and cultural heritage. “As Sete Maravilhas...

The Mozambican Writers’ Association and the Technical University of Mozambique (UDM) paid homange to the late poet and intellectual Fernando Ganhão at a special ceremony in Maputo on 14 June. The event included a reading of poems by the author, which...

The Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) and the University Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos - Brazil) are promoting the first Brazil-Mozambique conference on the digital divide, democracy and diversity (DDD) in Maputo from 9-12 June. Participants will discuss themes such as...

Roughly 1,000 Mozambican nationals arrived at the central railway station in Maputo on 25 May to escape the xenophobic violence that has rocked South Africa in recent weeks. On arrival in the capital they were taken by bus to the Fábrica...

Fernando Lima is among the finalists in the African Journalist 2008 competition sponsored by America’s Cable News Network (CNN) and South African satellite television provider MultiChoice. The Mozambican journalist entered the contest with a body of work on the flooding of...

The first phase of a project to prevent the opening of informal markets in Maputo is due to get underway in June. Overseen by the city council, the operation aims to ensure the proper management of public space. Perimeter walls will be...

1,259,000 tourists visited Mozambique in 2007 according to ministry of tourism figures, representing a 21 per cent increase over the previous year. Accommodation capacity also increased by 8.2 per cent over the same period, from 15,740 rooms in 2006 to 17,035...

Human rights organisation Amnesty International has released a report accusing the Mozambican police of killing and torturing people with near total impunity. The study, titled “Licence to Kill”, claims that the forces of law and order frequently respond to the “numerous...

Maputo is to host the biennial on education in Africa from 5-9 May. Organised by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), the conference on education development brings together African ministers of education, representatives of multilateral and bilateral...

Mozambican musician Feliciano dos Santos has won the Goldman environmental prize for Africa for his work to raise awareness about health and sanitation issues in the northern Niassa province of Mozambique. Dos Santos and his band “Massukos” use their music to...