The new Maputo-Catembe bridge, built by the China Road and Bridge Corporation, is due to open in June.
The 3km bridge will be Africa’s longest suspension bridge and will link Maputo to Catembe sou...
UEM Archaeology at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo.
Mozambique's oldest university, the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) in Maputo, has inaugurated the UEM Archaeology Museum.Spanning the lowe...
Mozambique upgrades capital's drainage and sanitation system.
Maputo's drainage system is to receive a major upgrade as part of a long-term project expected to be completed in 2040.
The main areas...
Final cost of bridge expected to increase as project misses December deadline.The completion of the major suspension bridge across Maputo Bay faces delays of several months and could lead to additiona...
Brewery will open in Marracuene district of Maputo in 2019.
Dutch brewing company Heineken has begun construction on a $100 million brewery in the Marracuene district of Maputo.When it becomes operat...
The Bank of Mozambique has inaugurated its $300-million new headquarters in the centre of Maputo after six years of construction.
The 87,500-sqm red, blue and silver hub comprises three adjoining b...
Chinese and South African companies to build new road in southern Mozambique.
Construction of a new highway connecting the north-eastern tip of South Africa with the southern Mozambican coastal cit...
Ecological park in Malhazine to be complete by December.
Works to turn Maputo's former arms depot into a 600-hectare ecological park should be complete by December, following a recent agreement bet...
Deepening of channel to allow access to 85,000-tonne ships.
The port of Maputo will be able to receive ships of up to 85,000 tonnes from February 2017, once the ongoing dredging works are completed...
Peace talks resume in Maputo after Dhlakama drops pre-conditions.
Peace talks between the Mozambican government and representatives of the Renamo rebel movement have resumed after Renamo leader Afo...
Films to be screened throughout the country
Film showings in various historic sites in Maputo and around the country.
The programme includes shorts curated by Interfilm Berli...
The short films shown at the festival will then be shown in schools around the country in July and August with a mobile unit running on solar power. The focus of the festival is o...
Mozambique's top contemporary dancer and choreograper, Horacio Macuacua, talks about the creation of his work Migrations to Paradise and the importance of residencies.
This Maputo-based festival of contemporary culture, which started in 2011, includes music, cinema, dance and workshops for children and students.
Musicians and singers come from...
Channel to be dredged to allow access to larger ships.
Major dredging works to deepen the access channel to Maputo Port are scheduled to begin in mid-May, according to its management firm Maputo Po...
Revamped gardens open again after two-year closure.
The Tunduru botanical gardens, on Rua Henrique de Sousa in downtown Maputo, have been re-opened by the city's mayor David Simango, after a closur...
Mozambique central bank to stem flow of foreign-exchange.
Holders of debit and credit cards issued by banks operating in Mozambique will be limited to a maximum of 700,000 meticais ($13,600) per ye...
Maputo Bay will improve Mozambique-South Africa trade.
The governments of Mozambique and China are financing a major bridge across Maputo Bay which will become Africa’s largest suspension bridge....
Maputo beaches to get clean-up.
The Mozambican government says that $50 on-the-spot fines are to be issued against anyone caught littering the nation’s beaches.
The legislation has been in place...
Nation destroys last mine in removal project that began in 1993
Mozambique has been declared free of land mines after the last explosive device was detonated in mid-September in the central Sofala...
Convoy of Renamo leader attacked
Mozambique's main opposition party Renamo has boycotted peace talks with the ruling Frelimo for the second time, amid a resumption of low-level clashes between reb...
700 Mozambicans flee to Malawi
Fighting has broken out in northern Mozambique between government troops and rebels loyal to opposition party Renamo, as reported on 27 July by the Associated Press (...
Maputo steps up fight against poachers
Mozambique is to destroy more than one ton of confiscated ivory as well as 53 rhino horns in Maputo on 6 July, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society...
The Mozambique government has decided to transfer the management of the Maputo's public transport from Beira Public Transport Company to the city government.
The city's public transport system is o...
An interactive exhibition of digital material to assist research into world war one, including archive documents, photos, film and sound.
It is part of the events to commemorate...
The South African Ntsoana dance company performs Afrika, after its 10-day residency with a Pamoja arts residency programme in Maputo.
Sello Pesa, the artistic director and chor...
A retrospective of the work of one of Mozambique's most important photojournalists.
The exhibition coincides with the presentation of a book of his photographs. Kok Nam, who die...
Food, music and wine tasting in partnership with the French embassy.
This year South Africa follows Portugal as the second edition's guest star. There will be traditional Burgun...
Exhibition of ceramics by Majorie Wallace and photographs by Berry Bickle.
Wallace shows porcelain objects inspired by traditional baskets, which she carves with linear designs....
In this interdisciplinary contemporary dance performance choreographer Pak Ndjamena and visual artist Rafael Bordal Mouzinho base their inspiration on the centaur from Greek mythol...
Country revises colonial-era legislation
Homosexual acts will no longer be deemed a criminal offence in Mozambique after 29 June when the country sings into effect new legislation to replace coloni...
Contrary to previous denials it has now been confirmed that senior police officers were involved in the theft of 12 rhino horns, following the early May haul of over 300 elephant tusks and 65 rhino ho...
Maputo police have confirmed that 12 rhino horns have gone missing from the haul made on 12 May when 65 rhino horns and 340 elephant tusks were seized.
Six Mozambicans have been arrested. The haul...
Elephant population halved in five years
There are only about 10,300 elephants left in Mozambique compared with 22,000 just five years ago according to a Mozambique government-backed survey made in...
Education ministry to teach Portuguese as foreign language
Education is to become fully bilingual in Mozambique, with the country's primary school children being taught in 16 Mozambican languages...
Opposition party boycotts inauguration ceremony
Mozambique's new president Filipe Nyusi was sworn into office on 15 January at a ceremony that was boycotted by the main opposition party Renamo, whi...
Opposition threatens to form breakaway state
Outgoing Mozambican president Armando Guebuza opened the nation's new parliament in Maputo on 12 January.
The new president Filipe Nyusi of Frelimo w...
Bridge works to begin in 2015
Construction of the suspension bridge across Maputo Bay is expected to begin in early 2015 and is due for completion by the end of 2017.
The bridge, which will lin...
Airport to become commerical hub for northern Mozambique
The old airbase at Nacala in the north of Mozambique will reopen as a new international airport on 13 December, according to the nation's t...
Frelimo wins elections with reduced majority
Mozambique's National Elections Commission (CNE) has officially confirmed that Filipe Nyusi, the candidate of the ruling Frelimo Party, has won the Moz...
AFIM is a non-profit making association that works to promote investment and economic development in Mozambique by creating links between investors, government...
English-language social club offering opportunities for friendship, culture and networking to English-speaking women of all ages and nationalities living in Moz...
The Maputo Young Professionals Network (MYPN) is an informal gathering of junior diplomats and young professionals working in international organisations, the g...