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<title>Mozambique: Businesses urged to invest in mining potential</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-28</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Maputo:&nbsp; Mozambique's Minister of Mineral Resources, Esperanca Bias, on Friday invited foreign businesses to exploit the enormous potential that Mozambique possesses in the mining, hydrocarbon and energy fields,
Speaking at the closing session of a two day International Conference on Mines and Energy in Maputo, Bias said that Mozambique's enormous mineral and energy wealth could enable it to pay a key role in the region, the African continent and the world...]]></description>
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<title>Mozambique: Platform for agricultural research launched</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-22</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Maputo:&nbsp; Mozambique's Deputy Agriculture Minister, Antonio Limbau, launched in Maputo on Monday a platform to improve research for the development of agriculture in the country.
The Agriculture Research and Technological Innovation Platform (PIAIT) is an instrument to support the management of agricultural research programmes and projects, and to improve coordination between the various research institutions in the country...]]></description>
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<title>Norway grants 19 million euros to combat illegal fishing in Mozambique   </title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-16</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Maputo:&nbsp; Norway&rsquo;s secretary of state for International Development, Ingrid Fiskaa, Tuesday announced funding of 10 million euros for the fishing sector in Mozambique, specifically to combat illegal fishing.Mozambique has just one leased patrol boat, which works within a 50-mile radius of the coast, paid for by Norway and Iceland, as part of an aid package from the two countries for the Mozambican fishing sector...]]></description>
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<title>Dramatic increase in Maputo water supply under way</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-16</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Maputo:&nbsp; The Mozambican government and foreign donors and funding agencies are investing 95 million euros (about 129 million US dollars) to rehabilitate and expand the water supply system for the cities of Maputo and Matola and the neighbouring town of Boane, more than doubling the number of people in the Greater Maputo area with access to safe drinking water...]]></description>
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<title>Rice production in Mozambique to grow 30.9% in current season</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-13</dc:date>
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Maputo:&nbsp; Mozambique plans to produce an extra 80,000 tons of rice in the current season, as compared to the 2008/2009&nbsp;season, according to the plan for the agricultural sector to which Macauhub had access.&nbsp; According to the document, in the current season, some 340,000 tons of rice as compared to 259,795 tons lasts season, which is a rise of 30...]]></description>
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<title>Mozambique: Government will digitalise land register</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-05</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Maputo:&nbsp; The Mozambican government intends to digitalise the national land register so as to speed up the granting of land tenure rights, Agriculture Minister Soares Nhaca told the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Wednesday.
Speaking in the debate on the government's five year programme for 2010-2014, he added that land will be properly mapped and zoned "to determine the best use of natural resources, taking into account the interests of the state and of local communities"...]]></description>
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<title>Southern Africa has potential for geothermal 'clean' energy</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-05</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Harare:&nbsp; Recent geological surveys have provided evidence that Malawi, Mozambique and the United Republic of Tanzania have huge potential for geothermal energy, which could reduce heavy reliance on hydropower and fossil fuel in those countries and the region.
According to an assessment by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Global Environment Facility, there is 4,000 Megawatts (MW) of electricity ready for harvesting along the Rift Valley...]]></description>
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<title>Mozambican economy expected to post growth of 6.2 pct this year</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-26</dc:date>
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MaputoL&nbsp; The Mozambican government for this year projects economic growth of 6.2 percent, inflation of 9.5 percent and exported goods to the value of US$2.142 billion, according to the proposed Economic and Social Plan (PES) for 2010.
In order to meet this economic growth target, several sector will be of utmost importance including the mining sector, which is expected to post growth of 41...]]></description>
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<title>After the floods</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-26</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg:&nbsp; The worst of the floods are behind them, but now the communities along Mozambique's major rivers face other serious challenges: thousands are displaced and access to food and clean water is limited.
Rivers throughout central and northern Mozambique were swollen to Red Alert level - one notch below declaring a disaster - after weeks of torrential rain locally and in neighbouring Zambia and Zimbabwe...]]></description>
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<title>Floods could aggravate seasonal cholera in Mozambique</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-16</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg: Cholera has claimed the lives of over 40 people in Mozambique and ongoing flooding throughout the central and northern parts of the country could "aggravate" the problem, aid agencies say.
"This is not unexpected," the Chief of Health and Nutrition at the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Mozambique, Roberto De Bernardi, told IRIN...]]></description>
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<title>FAO and Italy support agricultural statistics production in Mozambique </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-02</dc:date>
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Maputo:&nbsp; The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Italian government Monday in Maputo are due to make official their support for statistical production in Mozambique, particularly agricultural statistics, Mozambican newspaper Not&iacute;cias reported.The daily said that no figures were given for the deal with the National Statistics Institute (INE) but noted that the INE was focused on carrying out the agri-livestock census which includes gathering, processing and publishing statistical data on the agricultural sector...]]></description>
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<title>Mozambique: Government restates commitment to Eiti</title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-15</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Maputo:&nbsp; Mozambique's Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources, Abdul Razak Noormahomed, on Friday reiterated the government's commitment to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).
Mozambique was accepted as an EITI candidate country in May 2009, and a Coordinating Committee has been set up to implement the Initiative in Mozambique, consisting of four representatives of the government, four from civil society, and four representatives of mining and oil companies...]]></description>
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<title>Lower Limpopo irrigation company created</title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-11</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Maputo:&nbsp;&nbsp; The Mozambican government approved on Tuesday a decree to establish the Lower Limpopo Irrigation System Public Company in the southern province of Gaza province, as part of its efforts to develop the agricultural economy.
The Government spokesperson, Deputy Justice Minister Alberto Nkutumula, explained to reporters that the new company has the task of rendering services to agriculture in the irrigated perimeter of Xai-Xai district, and stimulate the emergence of a business community through links with sustainable markets...]]></description>
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<title>Japanese seek to exploit Nacala Development Corridor</title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-04</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Maputo:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Japanese entrepreneurs are considering use of the Nacala Development Corridor in coming years to access coal from Moatize, extracted in the district of the same name in Tete province.A Japanese business delegation in Maputo to take part in a business seminar last weekend visited the Nacala Development Corredor, which includes the Nacala port in Nampula province...]]></description>
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<title>Bank of Mozambique calls for prudence despite recovery of the economy</title>
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<dc:date>2010-01-29</dc:date>
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Maputo:&nbsp; The governor of the Bank of Mozambique, Ernesto Gove, Wednesday called on the country's government to be prudent in its financial management, despite optimistic forecasts for world economic performance from this year onwards.
Speaking at the opening of the 24th executive Council of the Bank of Mozambique, which began Wednesday in Maputo, Gove noted that, following the world financial crisis, projections for economic performance for this year were optimistic, but those indicators "should be viewed with some caution...]]></description>
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