Maputo flooded in heavy rains

Large parts of Maputo flooded on 27 January as a result of sudden heavy rain, the Mozambican news agency AIM reports. The National Disaster Management Institute (INGC) has said that the flooding affected over 300 households in numerous neighbourhoods around the...

Mozambique parliament opens to protests

The new Mozambique parliament has elected its first woman speaker. Veronica Macamo, who was previously vice speaker, was voted in unopposed after the main opposition party Renamo failed to put forward its own candidate in protest against the results of...

Guebuza returned to power in Mozambique elections

Incumbent president Armando Guebuza of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) has won an overwhelming victory in Mozambique’s fourth multi-party elections on 28 October. With results from 90 per cent of polling stations counted, the wealthy businessman took 2,624,564 votes, or 76.3...

Development project for Chamanculo C

The 26,000 residents of Maputo’s low-income Chamanculo C district are to get new houses and infrastructure, social service facilities and other amenities under a far-reaching development project involving the governments of Italy, Brazil and Mozambique and Cities Alliance, a global...

Mozambique wins Manhattan film award

Alcides Soares, aged 16, has won the best documentary award at the annual Manhattan Short film festival for his film Mozambique about AIDS orphans in the country. In his film Soares tells his own story of trying to find a new...

Maputo stadium not ready for World Cup

The new 42,000-seat stadium under construction in Zimpeto north of the capital will not be ready in time for next year’s football World Cup in neighbouring South Africa as originally planned. Construction got off to a slow start in 2008...

Banking charges reduced

The Bank of Mozambique has abolished a series of charges for basic banking services as part of efforts to protect consumers. Under the new rules commercial banks can no longer charge customers for full monthly bank statements or a daily balance...

Maputo International Fair

The 45th edition of the Maputo International Trade Fair (Facim) will take place from 31 August to 6 September. Businesses especially from the southern African region will come together in the Mozambican capital to present and promote their latest products...

Italian restaurant opens in Maputo

A restaurant serving Italian food has opened at the four-star Hotel Cardoso in Maputo. Fiamma (meaning “flame” in Italian) offers a buffet lunch and à la carte dining in a panoramic location near the hotel swimming pool and overlooking Maputo...

Maputo protests closure of HIV daycare centres

The Mozambique government’s recent closure of its 23 daycare hospitals for HIV positive patients brought thousands to the streets of Maputo in protest at the start of August, according to United Nations news agency PlusNews. A similar protest took...