The Daily IIJ

Maputo, 15 September 2009 – MORE than 3000 Zimbabweans living in neighbouring Mozambique – most of them illegally – have been counted in a two week survey concluded on Saturday, Joseph Matongo, national coordinator of Zimbabwe-Mozambique Solidarity Alliance (Zimosa) said.

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Maputo – The first census of Zimbabwean immigrants in neighbouring Mozambique is being launched this Friday in Chimoio, a border town in the central province of Manica. “We are going to carry out this two-week national population survey of all Zimbabweans who live in Mozambique due to the economic and political hardships back home,” Joseph [...]

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Maputo – China, Vietnam and India have taken the lead in pouring financial assistance, technology transfers and human resources training into Mozambique’s agriculture sector in a series of growing cereal partnership agreements and contracts that promise to transform the lives of millions that depend on farming for a living.

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Maputo – Most HIV positive pregnant women are not changing their sexual behaviors by moving to safer sexual practices a situation that is not helping stop the spread of the epidemic in the poor southern African country of Mozambique, a health worker said.

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A basketball player flashing a toothy grin and oozing waves of confidence talked passionately in Cairo, Eqypt about the many names of God and a new interfaith partnership for the world in the birthplace of three great religions and the meeting point of three great civilizations.

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Interview with Leo Antonio Chavane, Assistant National Director, Ministry of Health, Mozambique on Monday June 1 at 8 am about the World Health Assembly annual conference held recently in Geneva which he attended. This he told me about when I raised him seeking an interview and authorisation letter to visit community hospitals and healthcare centres [...]

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Maputo – Some four years ago a club to spread messages and raise awareness about HIV/ Aids was launched across Mozambique’s secondary schools to help change behavior through education and health. The club, called REDES (Girls in Development, Education and Health), targetted just girls when it was started around 2005, but two years later a [...]

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Maputo – When the US$19 billion President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar) heathcare initiative was unrolled for more than 50 countries at most risk of the deadly HIV and Aids some six years ago it reflected the United States of America’s short term emergency response to combat the spread of the untreatable disease.

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Maputo – The head of the U.S. Command for Africa (AFRICOM) General William E. Ward is expected to arrive in Mozambique on Thursday this week for a two day visit as part of a tour that will also take him to Swaziland and Tanzania. The U.S embassy said the main purpose of General Ward’s visit [...]

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Maputo – African countries can reduce extreme poverty and increase human capital by adopting effective social safety nets such as conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes that have worked so well especially in Latin American countries, a World Bank expert said. Harold Alderman, an adviser in the Social Protection, Human Development Department, Africa Region at the [...]

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