Mozambique to evacuate residents from flood plain

About 130 000 people are to be evacuated in flood-prone Mozambique because of rising waters in three main rivers, state media said on Wednesday.

Afcon claims its first coaching casualty

The head of Mozambique's national football association said coach Mart Nooij will be fired after the team failed to reach the Afcon quarterfinals.

African leaders tackle Zim and Madagascar

Key southern African leaders gathered in Maputo, Mozambique on Thursday for a special summit on the political crises in Zimbabwe and Madagascar.

SADC summit to focus on Zimbabwe, Madagascar

Key Southern African leaders will hold a special summit on Thursday to discuss the crisis in Madagascar and the power-sharing government in Zimbabwe.

Mozambique opposition boycotts Parliament ceremony

A member of Mozambique's Parliament says most of the main opposition party's politicians boycotted a swearing-in ceremony.

Mozambique Council rejects opposition vote appeal

Mozambique's Constitutional Council has dismissed allegations by opposition party Renamo of voting rigging in elections which the ruling Frelimo won.

Mozambique opposition party demands fresh election

Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, on Tuesday rejected the election victory of President Armando Guebuza, saying a fresh poll must be held.

Guebuza re-elected in landslide Mozambique poll

Mozambique's President Armando Guebuza won a landslide re-election with 75% of the vote, election officials said on Wednesday.

All power to Frelimo

Mozambique's ruling party has taken more than two-thirds of the seats in parliament since 1975, writes Henrik Lomholt Rasmussen.

Mozambique ruling party leads election results

Mozambican President Armando Guebuza's party on Friday held a firm lead in parliamentary poll results in the country's fourth democratic elections.

Frelimo on course for victory

Support for Frelimo, Mozambique's ruling party since independence in 1975, was the issue when about 9,5-million voters went to the polls on Wednesday.

Frelimo leads early Mozambique poll returns

Mozambique's ruling party enjoyed a firm lead in early election returns on Thursday, local media said.

Mozambique ruling party expected to cement its rule

Voting ended on Wednesday in Mozambique's fourth democratic election, with the ruling party set to cement its 34-year rule.

Mozambicans vote, Frelimo expected to win majority

Mozambicans voted in presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections on Wednesday, with President Armando Guebuza expected to retain power.

Mozambique: The country that became a minefield

Mozambique's effort to become the first of the world's major mine-contaminated countries to be declared mine-free is faltering on the home straight.

Mozambicans go to the polls, Guebuza expected to win

Voting began in Mozambique's elections on Wednesday, with President Armando Guebuza expected to retain power.

Mozambique's troubled opposition faces tough election

As Mozambique heads to the polls on Wednesday, the ruling party looks set for an easy victory over an opposition battered by a recent split.

Election express pulls in to Mozambique

After South Africa, Malawi and Botswana the 2009 Southern Africa election express rolls into the region's rising star, Mozambique, this week.

Mozambican parties make final push for votes

Mozambique's political parties prepared their final push for votes on Sunday, the last day of campaigning for Wednesday's elections.

SA firm 'mines Zim blood diamonds'

New evidence suggests that a South African business has muscled into the plundering of diamond fields in eastern Zimbabwe.

Moz poll just sharing of the cake

Mozambique may be poised for elections, but democracy in the country is wasting away, says a political scientist at Eduardo Mondlane University.

The root of food security

Professor Chrissie Rey heads a Thrip-funded research project aimed at putting cassava on the map as Africa’s leading subsistence and commercial crop.

'No space for democracy in Mozambique'

Daviz Simango, founder of the new political party MDM, has shaken up the traditional two-horse race for Mozambique's elections in two weeks' time.

Sugar could power Mozambique

A new study has revealed that Mozambique could supply electricity to a greater percentage of its own population by producing biomass-fired energy

A dangerous change in the weather

Climate change caused the deaths of 10 people in Sierra Leone.