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Chinese to boost agriculture in Mozambique

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:08:00 +0200

A Chinese centre for research and transfer of agricultural technology is set to open in Mozambique in early 2010. The facility will use China's farming expertise to boost the African country's agricultural productivity by improving cultivation methods and training local scientists and farmers.
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Female farmer scoops award for food production

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:48:00 +0200

In the past, Celina Cossa would queue for days and even nights just waiting to buy a bag of maize. But that did not even guarantee she would be able to purchase it. Some nights her two children, her husband and her would go to sleep on empty stomachs.
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Mozambique: Markets too far for farmers' profit

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:44:00 +0200

LAGO DISTRICT: August is peak tomato season in the Niassa province of northwest Mozambique, and farmers are bringing bucket-loads of tomatoes to sell to Nkwichi Lodge, one of the few buyers of local produce in the region.
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Mozambique: Economic growth remains robust

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:22:00 +0200

MAPUTO: Economic growth in Mozambique will remain at "comfortable" levels despite the slowdown caused by the crisis, reflected in the reduction of state exports and revenues, said the Portuguese Bank, BPI, on his report published in Maputo on 20 July 2009.
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Mozambique: Socremo launches new product

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:05:00 +0200

MAPUTO: Mozambican bank, Socremo, announced on 2 July 2009, the launch of a new product called 'Account Vitamin'.
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Mozambique: IMF approves US$176 million for exogenous shocks

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:46:00 +0200

The executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday, 1 July 2009, approved a 12-month, SDR of 113.6 million (about US$176 million) for Mozambique under the IMF's Exogenous Shocks Facility (ESF) to cushion the country from the effects of the global economic downturn, said Felix Fischer, IMF resident representative in Mozambique.
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Mozambique: WB reports improved business but low productivity

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:10:00 +0200

MAPUTO: The business environment in Mozambique registered significant improvements last year but productivity levels, which could allow the country to compete in global markets are still a big concern, according to a World Bank report released on Monday, 29 June 2009.
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Mozambique: Researchers ponder value of cash transfers

Wed, 13 May 2009 11:04:00 +0200

MAPUTO: Their mud huts perch precariously on the eroded, high embankment of the Zambezi river, in the provincial capital of Tete, in central Mozambique. But watching their homes be washed away by erosion or floods is just another risk for the residents of Matundo and Matheus Sansao Muthemba bairros. Their lives are as precarious as their homes.
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“Fight against poverty is our new war” say Mozambique's poor

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:24:00 +0200

Retail trade and its associated sectors cannot thrive in a society encumbered by poverty - what the poor of mozambique regard as their "new war".
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Mozambique: Cheap rail travel boosts cross-border trade

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:46:00 +0200

Angelina Sidumo is one of the hundreds of traders that throng the busy train station in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, on most Wednesday afternoons to catch the once-weekly train south to Chicualacuala town in Gaza Province, an 18-hour journey covering nearly 500km.
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