[Africa In Fact] Scholar Richard Auty first coined the phrase 'resource curse' in 1993 to illustrate the confounding nature of the relationship between natural resource abundance and under-development. Intuitively we expect that natural resources wou...

[AIM] Maputo -- A group of 21 people (15 women and six children), kidnapped by the islamist terrorists operating in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado can now return to their homes on Matemo island, after being rescued by the defence an...

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican government is tightening restrictive measures in an attempt to halt the rapid spread of the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

[AIM] Maputo -- The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is providing agricultural inputs for the victims of terrorism and other needy population groups in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado.

[AIM] Maputo -- A Maputo judge has granted businessman Rufino Licuco an injunction seeking to forbid his former girlfriend, Josina Machel, daughter of Mozambique's first President, Samora Machel, from using his name or image.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Ministry of Health says that about 10,000 cataract surgeries were performed across the country in 2019, a milestone that fell sharply to only 5,000 interventions as result of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.

[AIM] Maputo -- New infections with the Covid-19 respiratory disease are continuing at an alarming level, according to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Health.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- Angola and Mozambique analysed aspects related to the strengthening of bilateral cooperation in the defence and security domain, in a meeting held between delegations of both countries, states an official note.

[AIM] Maputo -- Maputo City is in danger of running out of intensive care beds for Covid-19 patients.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mayor of Beira, Daviz Simango, has ordered an end to all informal selling of goods on the streets and pavements of the city, reports the independent television station STV.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Covid-19 pandemic has claimed yet another economic victim with the cancellation of flights by Mozambique Airlines (LAM) between Maputo and Lisbon.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's publicly owned ports and railway company (CFM) expects to finish by February the construction of a dry port in Ressano Garcia, near the border with South Africa, in Maputo province, which will cut by half the road traffic...

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Health Ministry on Tuesday reported the second worst day ever in terms of new coronavirus cases.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi flew to Tanzania on Monday for a two day working visit, at the invitation of his Tanzanian counterpart, John Magufuli.

[AIM] Maputo -- Despite the ceasefire announced by its leader, Mariano Nhongo, just before Christmas, the dissident "Renamo Military Junta", attacked a convoy of vehicles in the central Mozambican province of Sofala on Saturday morning.

[AIM] Maputo -- Nampula (Mozambique), 11 Jan (AIM) - In the northern Mozambican city of Nampula, the second most populous city in the country (after the Maputo-Matola conurbation), citizens appear to have completely forgotten the basic measures requi...

[AIM] Maputo -- The reckless Mozambican Christmas and New Year festivities are continuing to take their toll, with a soaring number of infections by the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -- Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi has today, January 11, 2020 laid a foundation stone for the construction of the Chato Zonal Referral Hospital.

[ISS] The African Union Peace and Security Council's (PSC) response to emerging crises in 2020 was marginal. This is primarily because the AU's ability to intervene in crises is restricted by its principles of national sovereignty (non-interference) ...

[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -- Mozambique President Felipe Nyusi is due to arrive in Tanzania today for a two-day official visit

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Frontier Police on Friday denied involvement in the illegal immigration of Mozambicans into South Africa, a denial that came a few hours after the independent television station STV had broadcast a detailed report on th...

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Friday announced the diagnosis, in the previous 24 hours, of a further 521 infections with the coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican frontier police are complicit in a highly organised scheme whereby illegal Mozambican migrants are smuggled into South Africa, according to an investigation undertaken by the independent television channel STV.

[AIM] Maputo -- New fishing legislation takes effect in Mozambique on Friday, offering full protection to whale sharks, manta rays and all species of mobula rays (also known as devil rays).

[AIM] Maputo -- The Indian government has decided to renew its agreement with Mozambique to import Mozambican pigeon peas for a further five years, according to the outgoing Indian ambassador, Rajeev Kumar.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Thursday reported four more deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 294 new cases - but in the same period 314 people recovered from Covid-19.

[AIM] Maputo -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that shortage of funds may force it to reduce, or even halt, food aid to people displaced from their homes by the terrorist attacks in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo D...

[AIM] Maputo -- Since the South African authorities will not accept Covid-19 rapid tests carried out at Mozambican facilities, Mozambique has decided to retaliate by refusing to allow into the country anybody with a South African Covid-19 rapid test.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican defence and security forces are in a state of high morale, claimed Defence Minister Jaime Neto on Wednesday, and they are benefiting from technical and material capacity building allowing them to pursue the groups that,...

[AIM] Maputo -- Tropical cyclone Chalane which last week battered the central Mozambican provinces of Manica and Sofala caused seven deaths and affected 73,500 people.