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Ban On Sale of Meat And Fish On Pavements

Wed, 12/17/2008 - 00:23 — AA Mozambique

Ban On Sale of Meat And Fish On Pavements - Maputo City Council has announced that it will ban the sale of meat, fish and shellfish on the city's pavement, and other inappropriate places. [AA Network News]

400,000 Tourists Expected

Wed, 12/17/2008 - 00:22 — AA Mozambique

400,000 Tourists Expected - 400,000 tourists are expected to visit Mozambique this December, according to projections from the Ministry of Tourism. [AA Network News]

Electricity Problems Overcome, Claims Kenmare

Wed, 12/17/2008 - 00:21 — AA Mozambique

Electricity Problems Overcome, Claims Kenmare - The exploitation of titanium bearing heavy sands in Moma district, in the northern province of Nampula, has run into snags because of oscillations in the supply of electricity. [AA Network News]

Sugar Expansion And Modernisation At Mafambisse

Wed, 12/17/2008 - 00:21 — AA Mozambique

Sugar Expansion And Modernisation At Mafambisse - The sugar company Acucareira de Mocambique (AM), at Mafambisse, in the central province of Sofala, is investing about 20 million US dollars in a project to expand the sugar cane plantation and to modernise the irrigation system. [AA Network News]

Sugar Expansion And Modernisation At Mafambisse

Tue, 12/09/2008 - 22:41 — AA Mozambique

Sugar Expansion And Modernisation At Mafambisse - The sugar company Acucareira de Mocambique (AM), at Mafambisse, in the central province of Sofala, is investing about 20 million US dollars in a project to expand the sugar cane plantation and to modernise the irrigation system. [AA Network News]

Massive Increase in Country's Teledensity

Mon, 12/08/2008 - 01:50 — AA Mozambique

Massive Increase in Country's Teledensity - Mozambique's teledensity (the number of telephone subscribers per 100 inhabitants) has jumped from 3.39 in 2004 to 20.6 in 2008, according to the Minister of Transport and Communications, Paulo Zucula. [AA Network News]

Qatar Interested in Investing in Country

Mon, 12/08/2008 - 01:38 — AA Mozambique

Qatar Interested in Investing in Country - The Emir of Qatar, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani, has declared that his country is interested in investing in Mozambique, particularly in tourism, agro-processing, energy and infrastructures. [AA Network News]

Earthquakes Rattles Four Provinces

Sat, 11/29/2008 - 01:45 — AA Mozambique

Earthquakes Rattles Four Provinces - A small earthquake, with a magnitude of 3.9 degrees on the Richter scale, rattled several regions in the northern province of Nampula in Mozambique on Wednesday in the early hours of the morning. [AA Network News]

20 Petrol Stations for the Rural Areas

Wed, 11/26/2008 - 23:44 — AA Mozambique

20 Petrol Stations for the Rural Areas - The Mozambican government's Energy Fund (FUNAE) and the publicly owned fuel company Petromoc signed in Maputo on Tuesday, a memorandum of understanding for the construction of 20 petrol stations in rural areas. [AA Network News]

New Gas Fields Discovered in Inhambane

Wed, 11/26/2008 - 00:00 — AA Mozambique

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]