New Gas Fields Discovered in Inhambane - New Gas Fields Discovered in Inhambane - A consortium headed by the South African petro-chemical giant SASOL has discovered two new fields of natural gas, off the coast of the southern Mozambican province of Inhambane. [AA Network News] [AA Mozambique]

Mozambique: Bridge Will Come to Catembe, Promises Simango - The candidate of Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party for mayor of Maputo, David Simango, on Saturday promised residents of Catembe that a bridge will soon be built across Maputo Bay, linking Catembe to the centre of the city. [AA Construction]

Mozambique: Shortage of Money Postpones Road Repairs - The building or rehabilitation of 1,043 kilometres of Mozambican roads, and 700 metres of bridges, that should have started this year, has been postponed into 2009 because of shortage of funds. [AA Urbanisation]

Mozambique: Deadline for Road Work in Zambezia Extended - The Mozambican government has extended, once again, the deadline for the completion of the work to rehabilitate the stretch of the main north-south highway between Namacurra and the Ligonha river, in the central province of Zambezia province. [AA Construction]

Moatize - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza declared on Thursday in Moatize, in the western province of Tete, that access to clean drinking water is key to fighting disease.

He was speaking at the inauguration of a new water supply system for Moatize town which more than doubles the amount of water available. The amount of water abstracted from the Revobue river (a tributary of the Zambezi) has risen from 180 to 380 cubic metres an hour.

Mozambique: Tete Bridge Over the Zambezi in Danger - The Samora Machel bridge, over the Zambezi river in the western Mozambican city of Tete, is in serious danger, reports Monday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias". [AA Construction]

Mozambique: Science and Technology Parks to Be Created - Mozambique is preparing to establish four Science and Technology Parks in the near future, dedicated to research in different areas of activity. [AA Urbanisation]

First Stone Laid for Maputo Provincial Hospital - First Stone Laid for Maputo Provincial Hospital - Mozambican Health Minister Ivo Garrido and the governor of Maputo [province, Telmina Pereira, on Friday laid the first stone for the Maputo provincial hospital, which will be the largest hospital built in the country since independence in 1975. [AA Network News] [

The Education Ministry has admitted that there are serious problems of quality in the education provided by Mozambican schools, particularly in the initial years of primary education.

Quiteria Mabote, an adviser to Education Minister Aires Aly, told AIM that visits made by Ministry inspectors to the schools show that the same problems, particularly in teaching children to read and write, are found all over the country.

Rural districts are responding to the challenge to transform themselves into poles of development. This was the message delivered to reporters by President Armando Guebuza on 4 October. Speaking at a press conference in the town of Macia, at the end of a working visit to the southern province of Gaza, he said that not only are the districts acquiring greater capacity in terms of infrastructure and logistics, but the district consultative councils have ensured greater popular participation and intervention in planning and managing social and economic projects.