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AllAfrica News: Mozambique
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Mozambicans Flee From Country - Government Declares Emergency
The Mozambican government on Thursday decreed a situation of emergency to cope with the crisis caused by the exodus of thousands of Mozambican citizens from South Africa, fleeing the wave of murderous violence unleashed against foreign immigrants.
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Albano Silva Case - Former Police Commander Denies Dangerman
A retired senior Mozambican police officer on Thursday told the Maputo City Court that he had never forced Paulo Dangerman, one of the six men currently on trial for the 1999 attempted murder of lawyer Albano Silva to make any confession.
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Albano Silva Case - 'Nothing Will Shake Me' Pledges Judge
Judge Dimas Marroa of the Maputo City Court declared on Thursday that he will see the current trial of six men accused of the 1999 attempted murder of prominent lawyer Albano Silva through to the end - no matter what certain newspapers might write about him.
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Frelimo Warns Against Taking Revenge
Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party on Thursday urged Mozambicans to continue to live peacefully alongside citizens of other countries, and not to seek revenge for the murderous attacks against Mozambicans and other foreign migrants that have occurred in South Africa.
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Albano Silva Case - Frangoulis Denies Meeting Anibalzinho
Antonio Frangoulis, the former head of the Maputo branch of the Criminal Investigation Police (PIC), on Thursday categorically denied meeting with Mozambique's most notorious assassin, Anibal dos Santos Junior ("Anibalzinho"), before Anibalzinho was extradited from Swaziland, in late February 2001.
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Guebuza Hears Complaints of Tribalism
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Wednesday declared that the great secret of success in the struggle against hunger and poverty, will be the unity of all Mozambicans, regardless of their ethnic origins, just as this had been key for victory over Portuguese colonialism.
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Albano Silva Case - Macamo Denies Frangoulis
A senior Mozambican police officer, Nataniel Macamo, on Tuesday denied that he had ever gone to Maputo prisons to visit any of the accused or witnesses in the cases of the murder of investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso, in November 2000, or the attempted murder of lawyer Albano Silva the previous year.
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Albano Silva Case - Anibalzinho Back On the Stand
Where is the gun that was used to murder investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso in November 2000?
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Country More Peaceful than the United States
Mozambique is the 50th most peaceful country in the world according to a new edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI) published on Tuesday by the London-based Economist Intelligence Unit.
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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.
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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.
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Frelimo Deputy Speaks Against South African Xenophobia
At least five Mozambicans are among those murdered in the outbreak of violence against foreign citizens in South Africa, and a further 70 have lost all their possessions, according to Lidia Geremias, a parliamentary deputy for the ruling Frelimo Party who was elected by Mozambicans living in the diaspora.
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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.
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Armas Cache Uncovered in Namaacha
A charcoal maker, whose identity was not revealed, uncovered an arms cache in the locality of Matsequenha, in the district of Namaacha, in the southern Mozambican province of Maputo on 13 May.
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Albano Silva vs Antonio Frangoulis - Round Two
Prominent Mozambican lawyer Albano Silva on Tuesday called the former director of the Maputo branch of the Criminal Investigation Police (PIC), Antonio Frangoulis, an "incompetent" policeman who had "betrayed" his profession.
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Albano Silva Case - Witness Reports Bribe Attempt
The Maputo City Court heard on Tuesday that the sister of two men accused of ordering the attempted murder of lawyer Albano Silva in 1999 attempted to bribe a witness on Sunday.
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Guebuza Visits Paralysed Irrigation Scheme
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Monday began a working visit to the northern province of Cabo Delgado with a tour of the Nguri irrigation scheme, which has been completely paralysed for the past 15 years.
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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.
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Albano Silva Case - Witness Changes His Story
Marcial Muthemba, a car thief who gave evidence in the trial of the murderers of journalist Carlos Cardoso in 2002, on Monday tried to retract that evidence when he testified at the trial of some of the same people, this time accused of the attempted murder in 1999 of prominent lawyer Albano Silva.
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Macau Billionnaire Invests in Bank
A new Mozambican bank with capital from China's special Administrative Region of Macau, as well as from Portugal and Mozambique, will open later this year, according to the governor of the Bank of Mozambique, Ernesto Gove.
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