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More than 12.9 million Mozambicans will on Tuesday choose the country’s next president, legislators and provincial governors in a poll seen as the litmus test for a shaky peace deal signed in August that put an end to decades of violence between the two main political parties.
State-run Mozambique power utility Electricidade de Mocambique says it will float an international tender to select a contractor to build the US$551-million high-voltage electricity transmission line between Temane in Inhambane province to the capital Maputo.
Mozambique has once again rejected calls from Malawi to allow commercial shipping along the Zambezi River, dashing hopes by the landlocked country to begin using its Nsanje inland port built on its side of the Shire River.
The Mozambican government plans to embark on a national programme to ensure the resilience of bridges to extreme weather events, Public Works, Housing and Water Resources Minister João Machatine has revealed.
The United Nations Children and Education Fund (UNICEF) has warned that up to one million people, including 160,000 children under five, in northern Mozambique are facing food shortages and a nutritional crisis.
The European Union has deployed 32 long term election observers for Mozambique’s general elections due on 15 October, APA can report on Saturday.
Mozambique’s National Institute on Statistics (INE) has said the country’s August inflation 0.11 per cent, a significant deflation when compared to the previous month in July at 0.31 percent.
Mozambique’s National Statistics Institute (INE) says the country’s economy grew by 2.3 percent in the second quarter of 2019 when compared to the same period of last year, APA can report Thursday.
State-run Mozambique power utility, Electricidade de Mocambique EDM, has agreed to sell 50 megawatts of power to Zimbabwe as of next month, APA can report on Thursday.
China plans to import 60,000 tonnes of tobacco and other crops from Mozambique beginning in 2020, Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi said on Friday.