Vol 39 No 6 | MOZAMBIQUE Talking gas 20th March 1998 The prospect of gas, and of customers for it, has sparked a wave of exploration in Mozambique and helped boost two planned industrial corridors - from Beira along the old railway a...
Vol 39 No 2 | MOZAMBIQUE Peace pains 23rd January 1998 Local elections will help democracy as the economy booms - amid high unemployment The electoral register is complete, the campaign has opened and the municipal elections due on 29 May should signal another step in the transition to normality. Once dismissed abro...
Vol 38 No 9 | MOZAMBIQUE Blanchard's beach 25th April 1997 The once-socialist government of Mozambique has made what may be the world's most extreme privatisation agreement. It is handing over the development of a region as large as Israel...
Vol 37 No 25 | MOZAMBIQUE Nuts to the Bank 13th December 1996 A privatised business lobby is challenging the free-marketeers from Washington Cashew nuts are the kernel of a battle between Mozambiques emerging private sector and the World Bank. Cashews are the countrys second export (after prawns), grown by thousands of ...
Vol 37 No 17 | MOZAMBIQUE The people's land 23rd August 1996 Frelimo ministers seem keen to sell the land that feeds the people, often to themselves The great southern African land rush is on. President Joaquim Chissano's government is almost half-way towards its target of selling concessions for some 20 million hectares of ara...
Vol 37 No 15 | MOZAMBIQUE Holy days 19th July 1996 A row over public holidays is being exploited by politicians and religious leaders A bitter religious controversy has erupted as Mozambique's newly assertive Muslims flex their political muscles. President Joachim Chissano appears to be trying to delay signing a ...
Vol 37 No 3 | MOZAMBIQUE A cloudy dawn 2nd February 1996 Bandits and corrupt politicians are more of a threat than guerrillas From outside looking in, Mozambique seems a triumph of conflict resolution and reconciliation. A newly arrived diplomat like Britain's High Commissioner Bernard Everett can claim t...
Vol 37 No 1 | MOZAMBIQUE Chimwenje or chimera? 5th January 1996 A group of armed dissidents in the Manica region offer a helpful diversion to Harare Reports that armed Zimbabwean dissidents are operating in Mozambique are being taken seriously by the authorities in Harare and Maputo. Both governments seems to lack reliable info...