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Cabinet Shuffled After Food Riots

Cabinet Shuffled After Food Riots - Mozambiquan President Armanda Guebuza sacked a number of ministers in his cabinet and reshuffled others. It comes in the wake of the food riots last month that killed 14. [AA Network News]

Proposals for New CNE Disappoint By Paul Fauvet

Proposals for New CNE Disappoint By Paul Fauvet - Proposals for amended electoral laws drafted by all three of Mozambique's parliamentary groups insist that political parties should retain a major role on the National Elections Commission (CNE), thus flying in the face of recommendations from civil society bodies that the CNE should be completely depoliticized. [AA Network News]

Guebuza Calls for Afro-Arab Partnership

Guebuza Calls for Afro-Arab Partnership - African and Arab countries should work in partnership to solve the current problems hindering their economic development, declared Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Sunday. [AA Network News]

Country Looks for Arab Investment

Country Looks for Arab Investment - The director of the Mozambican government's Investment Promotion Centre (CPI), Lourenco Sambo, regards the Arab world as "a sleeping giant", offering opportunities from which Mozambique should seek to draw the maximum possible advantage. [AA Network News]

Tourism Officials to Expand Contribution to Economy

Tourism Officials to Expand Contribution to Economy - The Mozambican Association of Travel Agencies and Tourism Operators (AVITU) has promised to boost the national tourism sector and make it a major source for growth in the country's Gross Domestic Product. [AA Network News]

Gold and Silver Discoveries Confirmed

Gold and Silver Discoveries Confirmed - The Canadian company African Queen Mines has confirmed discoveries of copper, gold and silver at its "King Solomon Project" in the western Mozambican province of Tete. [AA Network News]

Cheap Natural Gas Offered to Bakeries

Cheap Natural Gas Offered to Bakeries - The Matola Gas Company (MGC) is offering cheap natural gas to replace LPG cooking gas and firewood in Maputo and Matola bakeries. [AA Network News]

Moma Accident - Over 1,500 Affected

Moma Accident - Over 1,500 Affected - The number of people affected by the accident on Friday at the titanium dredge mine in the northern Mozambican district of Moma has risen to 1,527 people in 342 households, according to a report in Monday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias". [AA Network News]
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