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Jorge Rebelo Speaks On Capitalism And Corruption
Jorge Rebelo Speaks On Capitalism And Corruption - Despite the formal commitment by Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party to "democratic socialism", what currently exists in Mozambique is capitalism, and a rather savage form of capitalism at that, admitted former information minister Jorge Rebelo in a long interview published in Friday's issue of the independent weekly, "Savana". [AA Network News]
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Resurgent Maputo
Resurgent Maputo - MOZAMBIQUE'S OCEAN-fronted capital, Maputo, is emerging as a major tourist destination in the Southern Africa region after picking itself up from the civil war 16 years ago. [AA Network News]
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Australian Company Plans New Coal Mine in Tete By 2010
Australian Company Plans New Coal Mine in Tete By 2010 - The Australian company Riversdale Mining plans to open its first coal mine in the western Mozambican province of Tete by the end of 2010. [AA Network News]
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Gold Mining At Tsiquir Resumes
Gold Mining At Tsiquir Resumes - The government of the central Mozambican province of Sofala has lifted the ban on gold mining at Tsiqiuir, in Gorongosa district, that was decreed in 2004 following a fatal accident. [AA Network News]
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Oil Refinery Planned for South
Oil Refinery Planned for South - If all goes according to plan, by the middle of the next decade there could be two oil refineries operating in Mozambique, one at Nacala in the north of the country, and one in the district of Matutuine, in the far south of the country. [AA Network News]
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Major Tourism Investments Planned
Major Tourism Investments Planned - The Mozambican government is mobilizing investments in the tourism industry, in the hope that the country can benefit considerably from the large number of tourists who will visit southern Africa in 2010, when the football World Cup is due to be held in South Africa. [AA Network News]
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Slow Arrival of New Buses for Maputo
Slow Arrival of New Buses for Maputo - Very few of the new buses ordered by the Mozambican government to strengthen the capacity of the Maputo public bus company, TPM, have so far arrived in the Mozambican capital, much to the annoyance of TPM, according to a report in Friday's issue of the independent newsheet "Mediafax". [AA Network News]
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Mozambique Inaugurates Mini-Hydroelectric Scheme
Mozambique Inaugurates Mini-Hydroelectric Scheme - It is possible to eliminate poverty in Mozambique by using the country's natural resources to generate wealth, declared President Armando Guebuza on Saturday, as he inaugurated a mini-hydroelectric scheme in Barue district, in the central province of Manica. [AA Network News]
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Country, Mozambique Sign Memo On Environment, Urban Arrangement
Country, Mozambique Sign Memo On Environment, Urban Arrangement - The ministries of Urbanisation and Environment of Angola and of Co-ordination of Environmental Action of Mozambique this weekend signed a memorandum of understanding for environmental protection and urban arrangement. [AA Network News]
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Guebuza Visits Returnees From South Africa
Guebuza Visits Returnees From South Africa - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza stressed on Monday that the response to the anti-foreigner riots in South Africa must be one of "unity and solidarity, but never of retaliation". [AA Network News]
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Returnees At a Loss After Fleeing South Africa
Returnees At a Loss After Fleeing South Africa - Orlando Pereira and Agostino Antônio Bila are two of the more than 26,000 Mozambicans who have fled South Africa and returned to their country of origin with little more than stories of hatred. [AA Network News]
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Guebuza Calls for Improvement of the Chai Museum
Guebuza Calls for Improvement of the Chai Museum - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Tuesday lamented the fact that the Chai museum, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, is not yet fully playing the role for which it was designed, which is to preserve the history of the national liberation struggle. [AA Network News]
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Heavy Penalties for Failing Contractors
Heavy Penalties for Failing Contractors - Companies that fail to meet contractually established deadlines for Mozambican public works, particularly for roads and bridges, will, from now on, be heavily fined, and may even have their licenses cancelled. [AA Network News]
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Call for World Recognition of Bay of Pemba
Call for World Recognition of Bay of Pemba - Hundreds of residents of the northern Mozambican city of Pemba marched through the city to Wimbe Beach, one of Pemba's main tourist attractions, on Sunday, in support of the call for the Bay of Pemba to be admitted to the Most Beautiful Bays in the World Club. [AA Network News]
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New Hotel Investments for Pemba
New Hotel Investments for Pemba - Five international hotel chains have submitted requests to build new hotels in the northern Mozambican city of Pemba, according to the city's mayor, Agostinho Ntawane. [AA Network News]
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Macomia Peasants Complain of Drought And Elephants
Macomia Peasants Complain of Drought And Elephants - Failure to reimburse government loans is due to poor harvests, claimed some residents of the district of Macomia, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, when President Armando Geubuza addressed a rally there on Tuesday. [AA Network News]
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Municipalities Want Direct Financing From ADB
Municipalities Want Direct Financing From ADB - The World Organisation of Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) has insisted that the African Development Bank (ADB) should change its current philosophy of granting funding through the governments of member countries, and instead start financing municipalities directly. [AA Network News]
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Private Investment Not Enough for Green Revolution
Private Investment Not Enough for Green Revolution - For successful green revolutions in Africa, private investment is not enough, and the state must play a key role, declared the President of the African Development Bank (ADB), Donald Kaberuka, in Maputo on Wednesday. [AA Network News]
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Development Starts in the Countryside - Guebuza
Development Starts in the Countryside - Guebuza - The starting point for development in Mozambique must be the rural areas, declared President Armando Guebuza on Wednesday. [AA Network News]
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Infrastructures Needed to Propel Rural Finance
Infrastructures Needed to Propel Rural Finance - Developing rural financial services in Africa depends on infrastructures to link rural residents to financial institutions and to markets, stressed an African Development Bank (ADB) Consultant, Zeinab El Bakri, speaking in Maputo on Monday. [AA Network News]
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