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Simango Inaugurates Square to Matsangaissa

Simango Inaugurates Square to Matsangaissa - Daviz Simango, mayor of the central Mozambican city of Beira, made his boldest step yet in claiming the mantle of the leadership of the country's main opposition party, Renamo, when at the weekend he inaugurated a square and statue in Beira, in honour of the first Renamo commander, Andre Matsangaissa. [AA Network News]

Anti-Retroviral Factory By 2010, Pledges Lula

Anti-Retroviral Factory By 2010, Pledges Lula - A pharmaceutical factory, producing the anti-retroviral drugs that prolong the lives of people infected by the HIV virus, will be in production in Mozambique by 2010, Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva promised in Maputo on Friday. [AA Network News]

Rent Function Taken From State Housing Body

Rent Function Taken From State Housing Body - The Mozambican government has decided that the state housing body, APIE, will no longer collect the rent on those houses nationalised after independence, and which have not yet been purchased by their tenants. [AA Network News]

Contractor Wants More Money for Zambezi Bridge

Contractor Wants More Money for Zambezi Bridge - The consortium formed by the Portuguese companies Mota-Engil and Soares da Costa has asked the Mozambican government for a further million euros (1.36 million US dollars) to complete the new bridge over the Zambezi, linking Caia in Sofala province to Chimuara in Zambezia. [AA Network News]

First Stone Laid for Maputo Provincial Hospital

First Stone Laid for Maputo Provincial Hospital - Mozambican Health Minister Ivo Garrido and the governor of Maputo [province, Telmina Pereira, on Friday laid the first stone for the Maputo provincial hospital, which will be the largest hospital built in the country since independence in 1975. [AA Network News]

Districts Becoming Poles of Development - Guebuza

Districts Becoming Poles of Development - Guebuza - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza told reporters on Saturday that the country's rural districts are responding to the challenge to transform themselves into poles of development. [AA Network News]

New International Bus Terminal Nears Completion

New International Bus Terminal Nears Completion - A new international road terminal in the heart of Maputo is nearing completion, and Maputo City Council hopes that it will be operational by the end of November. [AA Network News]

One Country, Two Visions

One Country, Two Visions - The visions of Mozambique given by the formal opening speeches on Thursday, at the end of year session of the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, were so different, that an observer could have been forgiven for thinking that the ruling Frelimo Party and the opposition Renamo-Electoral Union coalition were not talking about the same country. [AA Network News]

Mixed progress towards MDGs

The Mozambican government believes that it is on track for meeting one of the key targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), that of halving the percentage of people living on less than a dollar a day.

Samora Machel's Birth Place Declared 'Cultural Heritage'

Samora Machel's Birth Place Declared 'Cultural Heritage' - The Mozambican government has decided to grant the locality of Chilembene, in the southern province of Gaza, the birthplace of the country's first president, Samora Machel, the status of a national cultural heritage site. [AA Network News]
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