February 2011

Warnings As Cyclone Enters Channel

Submitted by AA Mozambique on Sun, 20/02/2011 - 01:22
Warnings As Cyclone Enters Channel - Mozambique's National Meteorology Institute (INAM) has warned that Cyclone Bingiza, which struck Madagascar on Monday and Tuesday, could cause moderate to heavy rains along the Mozambican coast. [AA Network News]

Police Attack Security Workers

Submitted by AA Mozambique on Sun, 20/02/2011 - 01:21
Police Attack Security Workers - The Mozambican police attacked a march by private security workers on Tuesday, in the central city of Quelimane, according to a report in the Beira daily paper "Diario de Mocambique". [AA Network News]

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Journalists Shown Sena Line Defects

Submitted by AA Mozambique on Sun, 13/02/2011 - 01:00
Journalists Shown Sena Line Defects - The publicly owned ports and rail company CFM has taken the step of taking journalists to the provinces of Sofala and Tete to show that the Sena railway is not ready for use, despite claims to the contrary by the Indian consortium Ricon. [AA Network News]

Second Riversdale Mine Lies Within Tete City

Submitted by AA Mozambique on Sun, 13/02/2011 - 00:59
Second Riversdale Mine Lies Within Tete City - The second open cast coal mine that Riversdale Mining of Australia plans to open in Mozambique lies within the boundaries of the western city of Tete, and operating the mine will demand the relocation of some major infrastructures, including Tete airport. [AA Network News]

Sena Line - 'Not a Single Kilometre in Good Condition'

Submitted by AA Mozambique on Sun, 13/02/2011 - 00:58
Sena Line - 'Not a Single Kilometre in Good Condition' - After personally inspecting the Sena railway line that links the Moatize coal basin in the western Mozambican province of Tete to the port of Beira, the chairperson of the publicly-owned port and rail company, CFM, Rosario Mualeia, has declared that not a single kilometre is up to scratch. [AA Network News]

Anadarko Discovers More Gas

Submitted by AA Mozambique on Sun, 13/02/2011 - 00:58
Anadarko Discovers More Gas - The Texas-based Anadarko Petroleum Corporation announced on Monday that it has discovered more natural gas in the Rovuma Basin, off the coast of the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. [AA Network News]

AfDB to Disburse 15 Million U.S $ for Water And Sanitation Projects

Submitted by AA Mozambique on Sun, 13/02/2011 - 00:56
AfDB to Disburse 15 Million U.S $ for Water And Sanitation Projects - The African Development Bank (AfDB) is to disburse 15 million US dollars to fund water supply and sanitation projects over a period of four years in the northern Mozambican provinces of Nampula and Zambezia. [AA Network News]

Government And JSPL Sign Contract for Coal Production in Tete

Submitted by AA Mozambique on Sun, 13/02/2011 - 00:49
Government And JSPL Sign Contract for Coal Production in Tete - The Mozambican government and the Indian company JSPL Mozambique Minerals signed a contract in Maputo on Monday for the mining of coal in Changara district, in the central Mozambican province of Tete. [AA Network News]