"As Inconfidências dos Homens" by Mozambican journalist Rosa Langa seeks to define a strategy for establishing a relationship between the state and artists as partners in the construction of a national conscience and pride. Sponsored by Swiss development cooperation, the book is...

About 1.5 million new consumers in Maputo, Matola and Boane will be linked to the water distribution network by the end of 2009, local newspaper “Noticias” reports. The €95 million project is due to begin in the first half of next...

The World Bank has donated $79 million to support primary and secondary schooling, professional education, teacher training, higher education, school health and institutional development in Mozambique. The donation will fund the "Education for Everybody" initiative of the ministry of education and...

Work on the new cargo terminal at Maputo international airport should be finished by the end of October according to airport operator Aeroportos de Moçambique (ADM). The new terminal is part of a $70 million expansion and modernisation ahead of the...

This year the annual Umhlanga (or Reed Dance) in Swaziland takes place on 1 September. Over 20,000 unmarried and childless girls and teenagers from all over the country gather reeds and present them at the Lobamba royal residence near the capital...

Over 380,000 out of a total of 1.6 million child orphans in Mozambique have lost their parents due to AIDS-related diseases and this figure could rise to 650,000 by the end of 2010, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)....

Candidates for Mozambique’s upcoming local elections have until 5 September to register with the National Elections Commission (CNE). The polls are scheduled to take place on 19 November in 43 municipalities across the country. Parties, coalitions and independent groups of citizens...

“Memórias em Vôo Rasante” is an autobiographical work by Jacinto Veloso, a white Mozambican who has played a key role in the life of the country before independence from Portugal (1964-1974), during the transition period (1974-5) and in the post-colonial era....

Mozambican publisher Missanga has launched “Há mais Bicicletas – mas há Desenvolvimento?” by British authors Joseph Hanlon and Teresa Smart dedicated to development in Mozambique. Organised in three parts, 18 chapters and two appendices, the book gives an overview of the...

The government has given its backing to a $280 million project to produce ethanol from sugar cane. The initiative involves the cultivation of approximately 18,000 hectares of land in the Dombe municipality in the central Manica province. If all goes to...