Southern Africa: Heavy rain puts relief agencies on alert
By Mark | January 24, 2011
IRIN, 21 January 2011
Heavy rains and localized flooding across southern Africa from Angola to Madagascar are raising fears that the devastating floods of 2000 will be repeated. Then, thousands of people were plucked from rooftops by helicopter, several hundred died, and Mozambique’s agricultural production was severely impacted. Read the rest of this entry »
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MOZAMBIQUE: Hoping to reach the MDG on water
By Info | September 28, 2010
IRIN News, 21 September 2010
Every day Ster Mamboza, 37, covers 19 km on a bicycle over sand and gravel roads to the well at Machaze, in the southern Mozambican province of Manica, carrying two 20-litre plastic water containers and a two-month-old baby. It’s quite a balancing act.
The better part of her day is spent fetching water from this well, the nearest safe source in the area, “even when I am sick”, because “we need water for everything we do in life. I only leave the baby at home when it is really hot, but I get anxious because sometimes it takes me more than six hours to get back,” she told IRIN. Read the rest of this entry »
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Mozambique govt suspends SMSes
By Info | September 13, 2010
Mail and Guardian Online, 11 September 2010
Vodacom group subsidiary Vodacom Mozambique suspended its clients’ SMSing capabilities under orders of the Mozambican government, independent media reported on Friday.
The National Communications Institute of Mozambique (INCM), which regulates telecommunications in the Southern African country, sent a letter to Vodacom Mozambique and state operator mCel on Monday ordering them to suspend SMSing, reported the Mediafax news sheet. Read the rest of this entry »
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Mozambique’s riots: The true face of global warming
By Info | September 7, 2010
Raj Patel, Mail and Guardian online, 5 September 2010
It has been a summer of record temperatures — Japan had its hottest summer on record, as did South Florida and New York. Meanwhile, Pakistan and Niger are flooded and the eastern US is mopping up after hurricane Earl. None of these individual events can definitively be attributed to global warming. But to see how climate change will play out in the 21st century, you needn’t look to Britain’s Met Office. Look, instead, to the deaths and burning tyres in Mozambique’s “food riots” to see what happens when extreme natural phenomena interact with our unjust economic systems. Read the rest of this entry »
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Mozambique to build new bridge over the Zambezi
By Info | July 8, 2010
BBC News, Thursday 8 July
Mozambique’s government has announced plans to build a $132m (£87m) bridge across the Zambezi River. It will allow access to the inland province of Tete, and some of the world’s largest coal deposits. Construction of the bridge by a consortium of Brazilian and Portuguese firms is expected to start next week.
At present trucks have to cross the existing Samora Machel bridge one at a time, leading to peak time tailbacks of several miles. Mozambique has launched a series of huge construction projects as the country recovers from a devastating civil war that ended in 1992. Read the rest of this entry »
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Mozambique: Drought and floods bring food shortages
By Info | April 8, 2010
Article from IRIN News, 29 March 2010
Extensive flooding along the rivers of central and southern Mozambique during March, in tandem with persistent drought in other parts of the same areas, have left 465,000 people in need of food assistance, but aid agencies warn that they do not have the resources to help. Read the rest of this entry »
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Mozambique: 42 dead in worsening cholera outbreak
By Campaigns | March 15, 2010
Mozambique’s Ministry of Health spokesperson Leonardo Chavane said on 13th March that the country’s current cholera outbreak has so far killed 42 people in the northern and central provinces. Since the beginning of the year, the highly contagious yet easily preventable disease has been spreading steadily with more than 2,600 cases reported. The worst hit provinces are Zambezia and Cabo Delgado, with 1,099 and 959 cases registered respectively. Other provinces affected are Niassa, Sofala and Nampula. Read the rest of this entry »
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Mozambique: Donor strike
By Info | March 8, 2010
By Joseph Hanlon
Budget support donors in Mozambique are on strike. No budget support money has been released to government since mid-December. Donors are demanding promises from government for action this year on electoral reform, corruption and conflict of interest, and on the growing role of the Frelimo party inside the state apparatus. Read the rest of this entry »
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