Mozambican President Armando Guebuza met on Saturday with the Unites States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Jendayi Frazer, in the Swazi capital, Mbabane.

The Mozambican Transport Ministry has apologised to the bus company Putco-Mozambique for the disruption to its operations caused by rivals who objected to competition on the routes from Maputo to the southern province of Gaza.

Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, on Friday afternoon delivered the nomination papers for its municipal election candidates to the Maputo offices of the Electoral Administration Technical Secretariat (STAE), the electoral branch of the civil service, just one and a half hours before the deadline expired.

Supporters of the mayor of the central Mozambican city of Beira, Daviz Simango, on Thursday registered him as an independent candidate for mayor in the November municipal elections.

The death toll from bush fires that swept through parts of the central Mozambican province of Sofala this week stood at 21 by Thursday, according to the provincial governor Alberto Vaquina, cited in the Beira daily paper "Diario de Mocambique".

The world food crisis can be solved, Mozambican President Armando Guebuza declared on Thursday, if major investments are made in countries such as Mozambique, which possess large amounts of arable land that is still unused or underused.

A former Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB) operative who 'confessed' his role in the assassination of former Mozambican president Samora Machel and was released on parole from Pretoria Central Prison after serving part of a 28-year-old jail term is a Namibian national.

African countries and donors share the belief that aid has the potential to contribute to economic growth, reduce poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, the way both donors and recipient countries are performing for delivery and use of aid undermine this potential.

Tico-Tico Bucuane says he is confident Mozambique have a strong enough squad to beat Ivory Coast in Sunday's 2010 World Cup qualifier and, in so doing, keep alive their hopes of progress to the last phase of the African preliminaries.

Angelina Sidumo is one of the hundreds of traders that throng the busy train station in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, on most Wednesday afternoons to catch the once-weekly train south to Chicualacuala town in Gaza Province, an 18-hour journey covering nearly 500km.

Three journalists working for "Zambeze" newspaper, an independent publication, charged for allegedly defaming the Prime Minister of Mozambique, Luísa Diogo, and of threatening state security, have been sentenced to 6 months in prison, converted to a monetary fine of 30 Mozambican Meticais (US$1.20). The ruling was made on 29 August 2008.

Two large Mozambican textile factories, paralysed for years, may reopen later in 2008, according to the National Director of Industry, Sergio Macamo.

Between 1 January and 31 July this year, Mozambican courts tried and sentenced 31 cases of corruption, and the associated crime of theft of public funds.

The Maputo independent citizens' group Juntos Pela Cidade (JPC - Together for the City) on Thursday morning delivered its nomination papers for the November municipal elections to the Maputo headquarters of the Electoral Administration Technical Secretariat (STAE), the electoral branch of the Mozambican civil service.

The mayor of the central Mozambican city of Beira, Daviz Simango, declared on Thursday morning that he will indeed accept nomination as an independent candidate in the November municipal elections, following the decision of his party, the former rebel movement Renamo, to ditch him in favour of Renamo parliamentarian Manuel Pereira.

A delegation of visiting Japanese businessmen has expressed interest in forming partnerships with Mozambican companies in agriculture and forestry, according to Henk Son, the Deputy Chairperson of the Confederation of Mozambican Business Associations (CTA).

Mozambique's Deputy Minister of Public Works, Gabriel Mutisse, on Wednesday warned that the vertiginous rise in the costs of road rehabilitation and maintenance could endanger implementation of the country's ambitious road programme.

Had Mozambique's first President Samora Machel survived, he would have been 75 years old on 29 September.

Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party on Wednesday delivered the nomination papers for all its local election candidates to the Maputo headquarters of the Electoral Administration Technical Secretariat (STAE), the electoral branch of the civil service.

The Mozambican government's Technical Unit for the Promotion of Rural Industry (UTPIR) has participated in the installation of over a hundred micro-processing units throughout the country, according to its director, Odete Samba.