Mozambican defender Almiro 'Miro' Lobo has signed a three-year deal with Platinum Stars, completing his surprise move from BidVest Wits.

The Rev. Joaquina Filipe Nhanala was elected July 23 as the first female United Methodist bishop in Africa.

The Italian government has just disbursed a million euros (about 1.6 million US dollars) to support the Mozambican government in the emergency caused by the flooding in the Zambezi Valley and elsewhere in central and northern Mozambique, and in the fight against cholera.

Mozambique's National Elections Commission (CNE) and 23 extra-parliamentary political parties have reached agreement stating very clearly that public notaries and registry offices must not charge would-be candidates in the forthcoming municipal elections for their services.

A group of Mozambican transport operators on Thursday physically prevented a new company from beginning its work, on the grounds that it is a foreign company competing with Mozambican businesses.

Mozambique's Minister of Planning and Development, Aiuba Cuereneia, told reporters On Wednesday that the Mozambican government has received no formal notification from Sweden that it intends to reduce Swedish support to the Mozambican budget.

Mozambican President Armando Guebuza inaugurated a new bridge on Wednesday over the Lucheringo river, linking the districts of Muembe and Sanga in the northern province of Niassa.

In an effort to mitigate the negative impact of climate change, new funding by European Commission's Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO) will help bolster disaster risk reduction and community resilience in Mozambique, Madagascar, Malawi and the Comoros.

Platinum Stars are on the verge of signing Mozambican defender Almiro Lobo from Bidvest Wits.

On Monday 21 July 2008, the 3rd Section of the Maputo Judicial Court postponed the trial of three "Zambeze" journalists. "Zambeze" is one of the biggest independent weeklies in Mozambique.

Mozambican Prime Minister Luisa Diogo on Wednesday swore into office Danilo Nala as the General Director of the newly created Office of the Accelerated Development Economic Areas (GAZEDA).

Mozambique's hospital network is growing in size and in quality, despite the persistence of a range of difficulties, shortcomings and inefficiencies, Health Minister Ivo Garrido declared on Wednesday.

The provincial court in the northern Mozambican province of Niassa has sentenced the director of youth and sport in the Niassa provincial government, Alfredo Ajana, and an accomplice named Vasco Ravia, to 16 years imprisonment for theft.

Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, has claimed that the ruling Frelimo Party is infiltrating supporters from other parts of the country into the central city of Beira, in order to boost Frelimo's vote there in the municipal elections scheduled for 19 November.

The Namibian government says it has not yet received from the Mozambican authorities any official information about the seizure earlier this month of the Namibian registered fishing ship, the "Antillas Reefer".

Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Tuesday stressed that the Local Initiative Investment Funds granted to every district are not intended for immediate consumption, but as seed money that can be multiplied to benefit the largest number of people.

The gang that kidnapped a Dutch woman in Maputo two weeks ago were rounded up almost immediately by the police because of the cell phone they used to demand a ransom, reports Wednesday's issue of the Maputo weekly "Magazine Independente" (MI).

Namibia yesterday cancelled the fishing licences of two vessels that were found to have indulged in illegal, unregulated and uncontrolled (IUU) fishing.

The general director of the Electoral Administration Technical Secretariat (STAE), the electoral branch of the Mozambican civil service, Felisberto Naife, has recognised that few voters are taking part in the current update of the electoral registers.

Unidentified assailants on Friday night kidnapped and murdered a member of Mozambique's Criminal Investigation Police (PIC), named Luis Jorge Sitoe.