Timeline Mozambique
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Mozambique has 1600 miles of coastline.
(SFC, 10/13/97, p.A15)
~900AD The east coast of Africa was impacted by trade and Arab, Persian and Indian traders mixed with the indigenous Bantu. Many of the coastal Bantu adopted Islam and the Arabic word Swahili, meaning “people of the shore," to describe themselves. By this time they had reached as far south as Sofala in Mozambique.
(ATC, p.142) (Enc. of Africa, 1976, p.169)
1498 Mar 2, Vasco da Gama's fleet visited Mozambique Island.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1506 Mozambique, Africa, was colonized by the Portuguese.
(TL-MB, p.9)
1794 Dec 27, The Portuguese slave ship Sao Jose--Paquete de Africa sank off the coast of South Africa’s Cape Town. Some 400-500 African slaves from Mozambique were on board the vessel bound for Brazil. About half of them perished. Wreckage of the ship was found in 2015.
(http://tinyurl.com/q9xyg73)(AP, 6/2/15)
1917 Nov, The East African Campaign, a series of battles and guerrilla actions, which started in German East Africa (later Tanzania) and spread to portions of Mozambique, Northern Rhodesia, British East Africa, Uganda and the Belgian Congo, all but ended when the Germans entered Portuguese East Africa (later Mozambique) and continued the campaign living off Portuguese supplies.
(http://tinyurl.com/lcfyagk)(Econ, 2/4/17, p.40)
1951 Jun 11, Mozambique became an oversea province of Portugal.
(SC, 6/11/02)
1962-1975 A 13 year effort finally succeeded in eliminating the Portuguese colonists.
(WSJ, 3/21/96, p.A-11)
1964-1974 Mozambique suffered horribly in its war of independence.
(Economist, 4/4/20, p.35)
1974 The Portuguese secret police (PIDE) ruled with an iron hand from its headquarters in the Villa Algarve in Maputo.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A10)
1975 Jun 25, Mozambique became an independent state (twice the size of California), ending nearly five centuries of Portuguese rule and a long civil war began that lasted to 1992. The first government embraced Marxism soon after taking power. 600,000 Portuguese farmers abandoned their farms and the agricultural industry was devastated. Frelimo (the Mozambican Liberation Front) took power in opposition to Renamo (the Mozambique National Resistance), which was supported by white-led governments in Rhodesia and South Africa. The UN Children’s Education Fund estimated that at least 850 children were kidnapped by guerillas of Renamo. Some were forced to fight but most were put to work as cooks and cleaners.
(WSJ, 3/21/96, p.A-11)(SFC, 6/25/96, p.A8)(AP internet 6/25/97)(SFC, 10/13/97, p.A12)
1976 Mar 3, Mozambique closed its border with Rhodesia (Zimbabwe).
(http://tinyurl.com/3c8j7u)
1977-1989 Frelimo ruled Mozambique with a firm Marxist orientation.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A10)
1977-1992 Civil war raged in Mozambique over this period.
(Econ, 7/16/16, p.38)
1980 Apr 1, The southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) was established by 9 countries with the Lusaka declaration (Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe). The main aim was coordinating development projects in order to lessen economic dependence on apartheid South Africa. On August 17, 1992, it was transformed into the Southern African Development Community (SADC). By 2008 it included 15 members.
(www.sadc.int/index/browse/page/52)
1980-1992 The Renamo guerrilla movement, led by Afonso Dhlakama, waged rebellion against the Freelimo government. It was a peasant terrorist army created in the late 70s by Rhodesia’s white minority regime and later financed by South Africa’s white apartheid government.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A10,12)
1982 Aug 17, Ruth First, an exiled anti-apartheid activist, was killed in Mozambique from a letter bomb sent by agents of the Nationalist South African government. In 1997 her daughter, Gillian Slovo, published "Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country."
(SFEC, 5/11/97, BR p.5)(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.M6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_First)
1984 Mar 16, Mozambique and South Africa signed a pact banning support for one another’s internal foes.
(Historynet, 3/16/98)
1984 In Mozambique the 415-mile Sena Railway line was damaged and mined by RENAMO insurgents. After it was sabotaged, not one train used it for more than 20 years.
(AFP, 10/17/06)
1986 Oct 19, Mozambique Pres. Samora Machel was killed in a plane crash as he returned from a conference in Zambia. He had aided Nelson Mandela’s ANC party in fighting apartheid. 34 others also died in the crash.
(SFC, 8/20/96, p.A14)(www.cidob.org/bios/castellano/lideres/c-016.htm)(AP, 10/19/06)
1986 Nov 6, FRELIMO designated Joaquim Chissano as president of Mozambique.
(www.cidob.org/bios/castellano/lideres/c-016.htm)
1986 Mozambique agreed to liberalize its economy in order to attract foreign companies.
(WSJ, 2/14/00, p.B13C)
1986-1994 Mario Machungo served as the prime minister. He later became the chairman of the Int'l. Bank of Mozambique.
(WSJ, 2/14/00, p.B13C)
1989 Frelimo dropped its socialist ideas in favor of a free-market economy.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A12)
1992 Oct 4, In Mozambique a peace accord ended 17 years of civil war during which some 600,000 people were killed.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_General_Peace_Accords)(WSJ, 2/14/00, p.B13C)
1994 In the first multi-party elections, overseen by 7,000 UN troops, voters chose Joaquim Alberto Chissano, head of Frelima, the formerly Marxist ruling party, as president over Afonso Dhlakama of Renamo. Frelimo was based in the southern port city of Maputo, while Renamo was based in the northern city of Beira.
(WSJ, 3/21/96, p.A-11)(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A10)
1995 The Christian Council of Mozambique launched a project to bring peace and reconciliation to the country and to disarm thousands of former combatants. The program paid artists to turn retrieved weapons into sculptures.
(SFC, 11/9/12, p.A7)
1995 Commonwealth members admitted Mozambique and Cameroon.
(Econ, 11/24/07, p.64)
1996 Aug 24, Crops in the fertile districts of Manica were severely damaged by an invasion of red locusts.
(SFC, 8/24/96, p.A8)
1998 South African senior foreign ministry official Robert McBride was arrested on suspicion of gun running in neighboring Mozambique and held for six months before being released.
(AFP, 9/9/11)
1999 Mar 10, In Mozambique officials reported 12 deaths due to flooding and some 200,000 people stranded following 3 months of rain.
(SFC, 3/11/99, p.A11)
1999 Jul 3, It was reported that the government had lifted a ban on hunting elephants as a sport due to growing numbers.
(SFC, 7/3/99, p.A5)
1999 Dec 22, Pres. Joaquim Chissano was declared the winner of elections that were held earlier in the month. He won 52% as opposed to 48% for Afonso Dhlakama of the Mozambique Resistance Movement, known as Renamo. In parliament Frelimo won 133 seats vs. 117 for Renamo.
(SFC, 12/23/99, p.C7)
1999 Creditors began canceling over $4 billion worth of debt. Debt service of over $100 million per year had flowed to creditors in wealthy countries.
(WSJ, 3/15/00, p.A1)
2000 Feb 22, Cyclone Eline hit Mozambique and 3 people were electrocuted in Beira from fallen power cables. Earlier torrential rains killed 67 people and displaced some 211,000.
(SFC, 2/22/00, p.A10)(SFC, 2/23/00, p.A11)
2000 Feb 26, Heavy rains continued to ravage South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. 33 people were reported dead in the northern province of South Africa and 29 dead in Zimbabwe.
(SFEC, 2/27/00, p.A22)
2000 Feb 28, In Mozambique officials feared that thousands may have died in the last 3 weeks of flooding.
(WSJ, 2/29/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 5, In Mozambique some 600 US troops arrived to help deliver food and medical supplies where flooding left an estimated 1 million people homeless.
(SFC, 3/6/00, p.A10)
2000 Mar 8, In Mozambique recent flooding began to wash old civil war land mines to the surface. An estimated 400,000 to 5 million mines were still present.
(SFC, 3/9/00, p.A10)
2000 Mar 12, In Mozambique the death toll from flooding reached 492 and urgent shipments of seeds were being organized.
(SFC, 3/13/00, p.A11)
2000 Mar 25, It was reported that the Messalo river burst its banks after a week of rain. The Limpopo was expected to flood again and the city of Chokwe was again threatened.
(SFC, 3/24/00, p.A8)
2000 Nov 9, Mozambique police killed 10 opposition demonstrators in Maputo. In Montepuez Renamo opposition supporters stormed a prison and freed 93 inmates. 7 police officers and 18 civilians died in election protests.
(SFC, 11/10/00, p.D2)(SFC, 11/24/00, p.D4)
2000 Nov 20, In Mozambique Carlos Cardoso, founder and editor of the Metical newspaper, was murdered while driving in Maputo. He had been investigating a 1996 theft of $14 million from the Commercial Bank of Mozambique. In 2003 six men were convicted of the murder. Businessman Vicente Ramaya was later convicted of ordering the murder and sentenced to 23 years in prison. In 2013 a judge signed papers granting Ramaya's release because of good behavior.
(AP, 1/31/03)(AP, 1/22/13)
2000 Nov 23, Some 75-83 inmates at the prison in Montepuez, arrested for the Nov 9 protests, were reported dead from either poisoning or suffocation.
(SFC, 11/24/00, p.D4)
2001 Jan, Flooding left at least 4 people dead and thousands homeless.
(WSJ, 1/29/00, p.A1)
2001 Feb 28, Flooding continued in central Mozambique as the death toll rose to 52. 81,000 were made homeless since the beginning of the year.
(SFC, 3/1/01, p.A10)(SFC, 3/2/01, p.A16)
2001 Mar 15, It was reported that 70% of the nation’s 17 million people lived on less than 40 cents per day.
(WSJ, 3/15/00, p.A1)
2002 May 25, In Tenga, Mozambique, a passenger and freight train collided and 195 people were killed.
(SSFC, 5/26/2, p.A14)(SFC, 5/27/02, p.A7)(AP, 5/25/07)
2002 Jul 1, In Mozambique health officials reported that at least 62 people have died of cholera in the northern province of Cabo Delgado since the latest outbreak of the disease in February.
(AP, 7/1/02)
2002 Nov 19, In Mozambique Manuel dos Santos Fernandes told Judge Augusto Paulino that he and two of his fellow accused had killed top investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso in return for a promise of $20,000 from President Joaquim Chissano's son Nhimpine.
(AP, 11/20/02)
2003 Jan 17, Massive flooding caused by Cyclone Delfina ravaged parts of Malawi and Mozambique, washing away homes and crops, submerging roads and bridges, and cutting off electricity in the impoverished nations.
(AP, 1/17/03)
2003 Jan 19, In western Mozambique it was reported that 9 people had died of hunger in a village and some 175,000 people in the area are at risk of starvation.
(AP, 1/19/03)
2003 Feb 5, Heavy rains in northern Mozambique caused flooding that left about 100,000 families homeless, swept away thousands of acres of crops and severely damaged roads and bridges.
(AP, 2/6/03)
2004 Jul 15, The Gates Foundation announced a $44.7 million award at the AIDS Conference in Bangkok to a consortium of TB and AIDS researchers. The 2 diseases were often linked. A UN report cited 7 countries as the hardest hit by the AIDS pandemic: Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Lesotho, Zambia, Malawi, the Central African Republic and Mozambique.
(WSJ, 7/15/04, p.B1)(SFC, 7/16/04, p.A6)
2004 Dec 1, Mozambique held elections. Armando Guebuza, Pres. Chissano’s hand-picked successor, won.
(SFC, 12/4/04, p.A3)(Econ, 2/5/05, p.48)
2005 Jan 15, Visiting Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown revealed that Britain has decided to cancel Mozambique's total debt to it of 150 million dollars (114 million euros) to help the southern African country combat poverty. He said: "We've also agreed to pay 10 percent of Mozambique's multilateral debt."
(AP, 1/15/05)
2005 Feb 2, Armando Guebuza was sworn in as president of Mozambique.
(Econ, 2/5/05, p.48)(www.voanews.com/english/2005-02-02-voa28.cfm)
2005 Aug 23, UN officials called on African ministers meeting in Mozambique to declare TB and emergency in the area.
(WSJ, 8/24/05, p.A1)
2005 Aug 25, In Mozambique regional health ministers unanimously agreed to declare tuberculosis an African emergency.
(AP, 8/26/05)
2005 Nov 15, Data was published indicating that Mosquitrix, an experimental vaccine against malaria given to children in Mozambique in 2003, had cut clinical cases by 35%. The vaccine was developed GlaxoSmithKline of Belgium.
(Econ, 11/19/05, p.85)
2005 Nov 24, The UN food agency said the United States has thrown a lifeline to six southern African countries, donating food aid valued at $45 million. The food will be distributed across Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Dec, In Mozambique Jose Pacheco under President Armando Guebuza, told reporters that an audit of the ministry had revealed an 8.8 million US dollar deficit that could not be accounted for. Pacheco had just succeeded Almerino Manhenje as the interior minister.
(AFP, 9/23/08)
2006 Feb 23, A powerful earthquake sent thousands of panicking people fleeing from swaying buildings in Mozambique and Zimbabwe, and killed at least two people.
(AP, 2/23/06)
2006 Apr 10, In Maputo, Mozambique, African leaders launched a campaign to get every child in school by 2015, and Britain responded by pledging $15 billion in education aid to developing countries over the next decade.
(AP, 4/10/06)
2006 Aug 16, The presidents of South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe gathered for the official opening the new Giriyondo border post linking South Africa and Mozambique. This was another step in the creation of the 14,000 square mile Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Park, which would span the 3 countries.
(SFC, 8/17/06, p.A2)
2006 Oct 17, The US State Department said that the last landmines and unexploded ordnance blocking Mozambique's vital Sena Railway line have been removed, thanks largely to some $13 million (€10 million) in US aid. The mine action assistance was launched in 2002. Under the US Humanitarian Mine Action Program approximately 46 million dollars have been given in aid to Mozambique since 1993.
(AFP, 10/17/06)
2006 Nov 9, In Mozambique a regional governor said more than 4,500 foreigners, mostly from Tanzania, have been expelled for clandestinely mining gold close to its northern border with Tanzania.
(AP, 11/9/06)
2006 Nov 10, A report launched by the UN Human Development Program (UNDP) highlighted how more than 2.6 billion people do not have access to proper sanitation and how dirty water claims more lives than AIDS or conflicts. According to the UN 78% of Mozambique's 17 million people earn less than two dollars a day and more than 20,000 children die every year from water-borne diseases.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2006 Dec 20, The parliament in Mozambique approved a new law to pave the way for elections at local and national level despite a boycott of the vote by the main opposition party.
(AFP, 12/20/06)
2007 Jan 19, Mozambique officials said 4 people have died, hundreds of homes destroyed and more than 6,000 affected by torrential rains over the last two days.
(AP, 1/19/07)
2007 Jan 23, Mozambique’s National Institute for Disaster Management said torrential rains in central Mozambique had claimed five lives and rendered more than 3,500 homeless since the weekend.
(AFP, 1/23/07)
2007 Feb 7, The Mozambique government said floods have killed 29 people and wrecked thousands of homes after torrential rain and hurricanes swept through the country in the past two weeks.
(AP, 2/7/07)
2007 Feb 8, China’s President Hu Jintao arrived in Mozambique on the penultimate stop in his 8-nation African tour.
(AFP, 2/8/07)
2007 Feb 9, An official said flooding in central Mozambique threatened some 285,000 people.
(AFP, 2/9/07)
2007 Feb 12, Mozambique officials said soldiers and relief workers using helicopters and canoes have evacuated some 60,000 people from the flooded Zambezi River Valley in central Mozambique, where more than 100,000 others are at risk.
(AP, 2/12/07)
2007 Feb 22, In Mozambique roofs were blown off, trees uprooted and power lines cut by the force of a tropical cyclone which slammed into coastal regions. The storm killed four people and injured at least 70 in the resort town of Vilanculos, where thousands of homes were destroyed along with the hospital and power grid.
(AFP, 2/22/07)(Reuters, 2/23/07)
2007 Feb 25, Heavy rains from a cyclone sparked more flooding in Mozambique, worsening a humanitarian crisis that has already killed 45 people and forced 140,000 from their homes.
(Reuters, 2/25/07)
2007 Mar 3, Officials said Mozambican marines rescued more than 1,700 people, including 900 children, from flooding in central Mozambique.
(AP, 3/3/07)
2007 Mar 22, In Mozambique an explosion at a weapons depot in a densely populated neighborhood of Maputo killed at least 96 people and left more than 400 injured, many of them children.
(AP, 3/23/07)
2007 Jun 26, A Mozambican army vehicle carrying recruits overturned, killing 12 people and injuring 24.
(AP, 6/27/07)
2007 Jun 27, In Maputo US first lady Laura Bush announced $507 million in assistance would be approved for Mozambique to build roads and boost its battle with malaria, which kills about 150 Mozambicans each day.
(AP, 6/27/07)
2007 Jul 4, Mozambique's President Armando Guebuza sought to expand trade ties with Tanzania to boost development in the two impoverished African nations.
(AFP, 7/4/07)
2007 Jul 13, The main US development fund signed a $506.9 million aid agreement with Mozambique to promote economic growth and reduce poverty.
(Reuters, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 31, In Mozambique 5 soldiers were killed when an army truck carrying munitions that were about to be destroyed exploded near the country's main airport.
(AP, 7/31/07)
2007 Aug 5, Mozambique state radio said authorities had seized thousands of boxes of counterfeit toothpaste that they fear may contain a potentially deadly chemical.
(AP, 8/6/07)
2007 Aug 9, A disaster management agency said more than 520,000 people need urgent food aid in Mozambique while 600,000 face famine between now and April next year.
(AP, 8/9/07)
2007 Aug 15, Maputo's interior ministry said South Africa has intensified the repatriation of Mozambican illegal immigrants, going from 400 to a weekly average of more than 600.
(AFP, 8/15/07)
2007 Aug 24, Mozambique’s health minister said large amounts of drugs, which have been imported into Mozambique with the aid of the international community, end up being sold on the black market at home and abroad.
(AFP, 8/24/07)
2007 Sep 13, In Mozambique a non-governmental organization working with the disabled said at least 440 sites are still heavily infested by landmines near residential districts in 3 provinces.
(AP, 9/13/07)
2007 Sep 17, The Mozambican government authorized soldiers to gun down wild animals who are seen as a threat to human beings after a new report highlighted an increase in the number of deadly attacks.
(AFP, 9/17/07)
2007 Oct 22, Mozambique's former President Joaquim Chissano, who brought peace and democracy to his country, won the first Mo Ibrahim Prize for achievement in African leadership.
(AP, 10/22/07)
2007 Oct 26, The Mozambican government set itself a new five-year target to remove all the landmines that still litter the country, 15 years after its long-running civil war.
(AFP, 10/26/07)
2007 Nov 27, Mozambique formally took over from Portugal the control of Cahora Bassa hydroelectric dam, Africa's second most important after that of Aswan in Egypt.
(AFP, 11/27/07)
2007 Nov 30, India's Tata Steel signed a joint venture with Australia's Riversdale Mining to develop a hard coking and thermal coal project in Mozambique.
(AP, 11/30/07)
2008 Jan 7, The National Institute of Disaster Management (INGC) said 6 people have died and more than 20,000 others have been displaced by Mozambique's rising waters, the worst since the deadly flooding of 2000 to 2001.
(AFP, 1/7/08)
2008 Jan 13, A UN humanitarian agency said floods in Mozambique have killed about 50 people and displaced tens of thousands.
(AP, 1/13/08)
2008 Jan 27, Mozambique said it would forcibly evacuate 10,000 people who have defied government calls to leave areas at risk of flooding along the Zambezi valley in the country's central regions.
(Reuters, 1/27/08)
2008 Jan 30, Mozambique’s interior ministry said police intercepted a lorry carrying 39 youngsters as they were about to be smuggled across the border into Zimbabwe by suspected child traffickers. Rights groups warned late last year that trafficking of Mozambican children across to neighboring countries, mostly South Africa, has risen tenfold in the last two years.
(AFP, 1/30/08)
2008 Feb 5, In Mozambique one person was killed and 63 were wounded in Maputo when police opened fire in a bid to break up violent protests against increases in bus fares. The local council of Tete said an outbreak of diarrhea in the flood-hit city has claimed the lives of 64 people since early January.
(AP, 2/5/08)(AFP, 2/5/08)
2008 Feb 6, The Mozambican government announced that it was scrapping a planned increase in bus fares as the death toll from riots sparked by the price hikes rose to three.
(AFP, 2/6/08)
2008 Mar 10, Tropical cyclone Jokwe battered parts of Mozambique for a third day. At least 16 people were killed with thousands of homes destroyed in northern Nampula province.
(Reuters, 3/10/08)(AFP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, State media said Mozambique's President Armando Guebuza has sacked three senior members of his government, including his foreign minister.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 17, The Mozambican government made an urgent appeal to the UN World Food Program to help more than 60,000 people left destitute when cyclone Jokwe hit northern and central parts of the country.
(AFP, 3/17/08)
2008 Mar 20, Mozambican President Armando Guebuza dismissed the head of the armed forces and his deputy, barely a week after firing three senior ministers.
(AFP, 3/21/08)
2008 Apr 13, The winners of this year’s Goldman Awards were reported to be: Feliciano dos Santos (43) of Mozambique, the director of Estamos, an environmental group promoting sanitation, sustainable development and reforestation; Marina Rikhvanova (46), founder of Baikal Environmental Wave, which forced the rerouting of an oil pipeline in the Baikal basin; Pablo Fajardo (35) and Luis Yanza (48) of Ecuador, co-founders of the Amazon Defense Front, which accused Texaco (now Chevron) of dumping oil and wastewater into local streams; Rosa Hilda Ramos (63) of Puerto Rico, head of a movement to protect the Las Cicharillas Marsh; Ignace Schops (43) of Belgium, head of a movement to establish Belgium’s 1st and only national park; Jesus Leon (42) of Mexico, co-founder of the Center for Integral Small Farmer Development of the Mixtec (CEDICAM).
(SSFC, 4/13/08, p.A4)
2008 Apr 18, South Africa's main transport union thwarted the delivery of a controversial shipment of Chinese arms destined for Zimbabwe, saying its workers would not offload the cargo. The Chinese ship left the South African harbor and headed for neighboring Mozambique. Angola and Mozambique said the ship is not welcome. China defended the cargo against international criticism.
(AFP, 4/18/08)(AP, 4/19/08)(AFP, 4/22/08)(SFC, 4/23/08, p.A2)
2008 Apr 29, Human rights watchdog Amnesty International accused Mozambique police of killing and torturing people with impunity as the country struggles to deal with growing crime.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2008 May 14, The annual meeting of the African Development Bank (AfDB) opened in Mozambique with the organization’s head warning that rising growth rates are having little impact on poverty levels.
(AFP, 5/14/08)
2008 May 22, The South African army mobilized in support of embattled police trying to quell a wave of violence against immigrants that has claimed 42 lives and displaced 16,000. More than 10,000 Mozambicans have fled home from South Africa to escape the xenophobic attacks.
(AP, 5/22/08)
2008 Sep 2, In Mozambique 2 days of fires killed at least 32 people and injured hundreds more in blazes which devoured large swathes of arable land. The fires also displaced thousands and ravaged around 16,000 hectares (40,000 acres) in the three central provinces of Manica, Sofala and Zambezia.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 10, Officials said at least 89 people have died in wildfires sweeping through Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland.
(AP, 9/10/08)
2008 Sep 22, Mozambique's former interior minister Almerino Manhenje was arrested in connection with the disappearance of millions of dollars during his time in office. He served as home affairs minister in the Joaquim Chissano administration between 1996 and 2005.
(AFP, 9/23/08)
2008 Oct 16, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrived in Mozambique to launch a project to make anti-AIDS drugs in the southern African country.
(AP, 10/17/08)
2008 Nov 5, In Mozambique a medical officer said at least 50 people have died of cholera and more than 100 have been taken to hospital since the disease broke out last week in northern Manica province.
(AFP, 11/5/08)
2008 China became Mozambique's second-largest investor after neighboring South Africa, pouring 76.8 million dollars (58.6 million euros) into the country.
(AFP, 12/26/10)
2009 Jan 12, Mozambique authorities said torrential rains have killed 19 people in the past few days and that worse flooding may lie ahead.
(AP, 1/12/09)
2009 Mar 15, In northern Mozambique a mob angered by false rumors that health workers were spreading cholera killed a Red Cross volunteer, two health workers and a policeman.
(AP, 3/17/09)
2009 Mar 18, Mozambique’s interior ministry said 12 prisoners arrested during a riot over a cholera epidemic have died in their cell in unclear circumstances. They were among 29 people arrested when riots broke out last month when Red Cross volunteers were blamed for causing a cholera epidemic plaguing the country.
(AFP, 3/18/09)
2009 Mar 27, Southern African countries (Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia) have been hit by the worst floods in years, killing more than 100 people and displacing thousands, as a tropical storm threatened to bring more pain.
(AFP, 3/28/09)
2009 Apr 6, In Zambia western nations and lending agencies meeting in Lusaka agreed a financing package of more than $1 billion to improve infrastructure in southern and central Africa at an investment conference meant to expand transport links and trade. Britain said it would separately provide 100 million pounds ($149.2 million) to transform the region's infrastructure to increase trade and mitigate the effects of the global financial crisis. New projects will link businesses in 8 African countries: Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Malawi, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa.
(AP, 4/6/09)
2009 Jun 12, Mozambican state media reported that a court has sentenced Alexandre Balate to 22 years in jail for killing a suspect. Balate, the former head of the search and seizure unit, was found guilty of the 2007 murder of Abranches Penicelo, who was allegedly abducted by a group of police officers, burnt alive and shot. Amnesty International had drawn global attention to Penicelo's murder. Last year the group released a report accusing the national police of "killing and torturing people with near total impunity."
(AFP, 6/12/09)
2009 Aug 1, Mozambique’s Pres. Armando Guebuza inaugurated an 80-million-euro (113-million-dollar) bridge over the Zambezi River, a major link for a country long divided between north and south. Work on the bridge had begun in 1977.
(AFP, 8/2/09)
2009 Aug 18, In Mozambique an overcrowded ferry with 50 people went down off the coast in a northern province. 17 people were feared drowned.
(AP, 8/19/09)
2009 Aug 19, Brazilian prosecutors said Father Clodoveo Piazza, an Italian priest who ran an award-winning shelter for homeless children in Brazil, has been charged with sexually abusing boys for years and allowing visiting foreigners to exploit the children. Piazza, now working as a missionary in Mozambique, was charged along with another former director of the nonprofit group Fraternal Help Organization, a private group based in Salvador.
(AP, 8/20/09)
2009 Aug 28, In Mozambique talks aimed at determining who should lead Madagascar in a new interim government ended in failure with the ousted president and the man who replaced him in a military coup both claiming the right to do so. The parties set a deadline of Sept. 4 to arrive at a compromise.
(AP, 8/28/09)
2009 Oct 28, Mozambique held elections. President Armando Guebuza was expected to retain power and move to attract more foreign investors. On Nov 2 President Armando Guebuza was declared the "landslide" winner by two election monitoring groups. Frelimo, the ruling party since independence in 1975, had received 71% of the vote with 89% of polling stations reporting. On Nov 11 election officials said President Armando Guebuza won the landslide re-election with 75% of the vote. On Nov 17 the main opposition Renamo party said the ruling party stuffed ballot boxes and expelled opposition monitors from polling stations to help it win the presidential election.
(Reuters, 10/28/09)(AFP, 11/2/09)(AFP, 11/11/09)(AP, 11/17/09)
2009 Nov 3, Mozambique's main opposition party claimed that polls that gave a landslide victory to the southern African country's ruling party were rigged.
(AFP, 11/3/09)
2009 Nov 5, Zimbabwe's rival leaders met with Mozambican leader Armando Guebuza, the head of a regional security body, ahead of an emergency summit aimed at hauling a fragile power-sharing deal out of a three-week impasse. The summit was set to open with leaders from the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Swaziland and Zambia.
(AP, 11/5/09)
2009 Nov 15, Amnesty Int’l. issued the report, "I Can't Believe in Justice Anymore." It said at least 46 people had been unlawfully killed by police in Mozambique since 2006. The report offered five detailed case studies, including that of dancer and choreographer Augusto Cuvilas, who had called police to his home because he feared he was being robbed, only to end up being killed by the officers from whom he had sought help.
(AP, 11/16/09)
2009 Nov 16, In Mozambique a trail opened for former Transport Minister Antonio Munguambe and four former officials of a company that runs the country's airports. They were accused of stealing nearly $2 million from the company. It was the biggest corruption case to go to court in Mozambique since independence in 1975.
(AP, 11/17/09)
2009 Nov 18, In Mozambique testimony in the highest-level corruption trial in the country’s history implicated ruling party Frelimo as a beneficiary of embezzled funds. Former Mozambican airports company finance director Antenor Pereira, a defendant in the trial, testified that Frelimo had received some of the $1.7 million allegedly stolen from the company.
(AFP, 11/19/09)
2010 Jan 11, Riversdale, an Australian mining firm, said the Mozambican government has given it the green light to build an 800-million-dollar coal mine in the country's northwest. Riversdale has predicted that the Benga project will produce some of the lowest-cost coking coal in the world.
(AFP, 1/11/10)
2010 Jan 14, Key southern African leaders gathered in the Mozambican capital Maputo for a special summit on the political crises in Zimbabwe and Madagascar. Leaders called for a return to dialogue in the ongoing political crisis in Madagascar. A medical aid group said Zimbabweans crossing illegally into neighboring South Africa after holidays at home are being raped and robbed by gangs on both sides of the border.
(AFP, 1/14/10)(AP, 1/14/10)
2010 Feb 16, Mozambique state media reported that a mob attacked health workers in a town in the northern town of Macoroja, killing one and injuring three others, after accusing them of spreading cholera.
(AFP, 2/17/10)
2010 Feb 18, In Mozambique 7 people died in a riot in the district of Gurue sparked by false rumors that health workers were spreading cholera.
(AP, 2/19/10)
2010 Feb 25, Mozambique's health minister, Leonardo Chavane, said 36 people have died this year from a cholera outbreak in the northern and central parts of the southern African country. he said the situation is worrying because new cases are being reported daily and are complicated by rumors that health staff are spreading cholera rather than fighting it.
(AP, 2/25/10)
2010 Feb 26, Mozambique state media said 2 young men accused of having sex with a goat in central Mozambique are facing criminal charges, and the goat's owner is demanding they make traditional wedding arrangements.
(AFP, 2/26/10)
2010 Feb 27, Mozambique's former transport minister was sentenced to 20 years in prison for stealing state funds, the highest-level corruption conviction ever in the southern African country. Antonio Munguambe, transport and communications minister from 2005 to 2008, was found guilty of acting as an accomplice in the embezzlement of 1.7 million dollars (1.25 million euros) from national airport company Airports of Mozambique.
(AFP, 2/27/10)
2010 Mar 13, Mozambique's health ministry spokesman said the country's cholera outbreak has now killed 42 people in the northern and central parts of the southern African country.
(AP, 3/13/10)
2010 Mar 24, Mozambican and donor officials say they have resolved questions over corruption and democracy that led to an aid freeze.
(AP, 3/24/10)
2010 Mar 26, Mozambican police said they have arrested 7 people suspected of trafficking women to neighboring South Africa to work as prostitutes. The men were arrested last week through a police sting operation. The women were on sale for about $670 each.
(AP, 3/26/10)
2010 May 24, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva launched TV Brasil, a new Portuguese-language network based in Mozambique's capital Maputo and tasked with "saying good things" about Brazil. From Maputo, the new channel will be broadcast to more than 40 countries, mostly in Africa and Latin America.
(AFP, 5/24/10)
2010 May 31, At least nine people died and 40 were missing and feared dead after a boat sank off the coast of northern Mozambique. All of those aboard the ship were Somali.
(AP, 6/9/10)
2010 Jun 28, South African media said Mozambicans and Thais children (9-16) were discovered a week earlier by South African border police during an inspection at the Komatipoort crossing between South Africa and Mozambique.
(AFP, 6/29/10)
2010 Jun, The US Treasury Department sanctioned three Mozambican businesses allegedly connected to Mohamed Bachir Suleman, a Mozambique man, whose name was added by the Obama administration to a list of international drug kingpins. In Dec, 2010, newly released WikiLeaks documents refered to Suleman often, saying he "uses his FRELIMO party connections, as well as his shopping mall, supermarkets, and hotels to import narcotics and launder money without official scrutiny."
(AP, 12/10/10)
2010 Jul 8, Mozambique’s transport minister said in a report that his country will overcome a shipping bottleneck to export its vast coal deposits by finding ways for barges to navigate the Zambezi River.
(AFP, 7/8/10)
2010 Aug 17, American oil company Anadarko said it has discovered offshore oil deposits in northern Mozambique, but it is unclear if the find will prove commercially viable.
(AFP, 8/17/10)
2010 Sep 1, Mozambique's state utility company implemented a 13.4 percent rate increase, while the state water supplier has also raised prices in and around the capital. Police opened fire on stone-throwing mobs who were protesting rising prices. 6 people were killed and 288 wounded. Another person died the next day. The UN noted that international food prices have risen to their highest in two years, a level that could see unrest spread.
(AP, 9/1/10)(AFP, 9/2/10)
2010 Sep 3, Police in Mozambique fired rubber bullets and live ammunition to quell more demonstrations against rising food prices. The death toll from the unrest soon climbed to 13 with more than 440 injured. The government said the economy has lost more than $3 million because of the deadly riots, as state media reported new protests in two other towns.
(AFP, 9/3/10)(AFP, 9/6/10)
2010 Sep 3, In Accra, Ghana, Standard Bank Africa announced at an agricultural forum a 100 million dollar scheme to reach some 750,000 small scale farmers in Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda in a bid to boost output.
(AFP, 9/4/10)
2010 Sep 5, Mozambican authorities said five fishing boats have capsized in a storm off the country's central coast, killing at least 15 fishermen.
(AP, 9/5/10)
2010 Sep 6, Mozambique state radio reported that nine people have been arrested over the last 24 hours, accused of incitement for sending cell phone messages calling for protests. The radio report said 3 of the 9 were arrested in Nampula for trying to spread the protests to that northern province.
(AP, 9/6/10)
2010 Sep 7, Mozambique Planning Minister Aiuba Cuereneia said that the 20 percent increase in the government-set price of bread — which had followed a year of steady increases on the staple in this impoverished country — that went into effect a day earlier would be reversed. He said an increase in the price of water also would be reversed, but that higher electricity tariffs were being maintained.
(AP, 9/7/10)
2010 Sep 28, An Australian mining company said it has discovered deposits in Mozambique of rare minerals with a variety of industrial uses. The minerals found included dysprosium, used to make laser materials and in components of nuclear reactors.
(AP, 9/29/10)
2010 Oct 8, In Mozambique a settling pond breached its wall at the Irish mining firm Kenmare Resources’ Moma titanium and zircon mine in the northern province of Nampula, flooding the area with a mixture of water, sand and clay. A four-year-old girl was missing after the dam burst, flooding an area housing 3,000 families.
(AFP, 10/11/10)
2010 Oct 12, In Mozambique 17 prisoners cut the bars at Nampula Industrial Penitentiary before escaping. They were among 99 inmates recently transferred to Nampula from neighboring provinces. One fugitive was soon re-captured.
(AP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 14, Mozambique state radio said a court in has sentenced two men to 20 years in prison each for mutilating a 12-year-old boy and trying to sell his body parts to a witchdoctor. The report said the two men, the boy's uncle and another, held the boy down, cut out his eyes and removed his genitals, intending to sell them to a Malawian witchdoctor. The boy survived.
(AP, 10/14/10)
2010 Oct 25, South African soldiers strayed into neighboring Mozambique and exchanged fire with civilians, leaving 2 people dead and one injured.
(AP, 10/26/10)(AP, 10/27/10)
2010 Nov 9, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva began a 2-day visit to Mozambique, focusing on education and health care in his last trip to Africa before leaving office.
(AFP, 11/9/10)
2010 Dec 6, Saudi Arabia's Rani Investment Group said it would break ground on a 100-million-dollar (75-million-euro) resort on a Mozambique island next year, aiming to cash in on foreign tourists.
(AFP, 12/6/10)
2010 Dec 8, A Mozambican judge sentenced two former government officials to 12 years in prison for stealing 3.6 million meticais ($103,000) from the government. The court ordered the government data center's former director Orlando Come and former head of administration and finance Manuel Vilanculos to repay the stolen money.
(AP, 12/8/10)
2010 Dec 10, It was reported that the United States is concerned that Mozambique could become a narco-state because of close ties between drug smugglers and the nation's government, according to US Embassy cables released by WikiLeaks.
(AP, 12/10/10)
2010 The population of Mozambique was about 20 million.
(Econ, 7/10/10, p.50)
2011 Jan 10, In Mozambique a heavy storm killed 10 people and seriously injured seven others in the central province of Manica.
(Reuters, 1/12/11)
2011 Jan 17, Mozambique officially received its new $70-million (€53-million) national sports stadium from the Chinese government after a series of false starts delayed its completion.
(AFP, 1/17/11)
2011 Jan 17, South Africa's Cooperative Governance Ministry said at least 40 people have been killed or gone missing following heavy rains from late December through most of January and that thousands of homes in neighboring Mozambique have been destroyed.
(Reuters, 1/17/11)
2011 Feb 13, Fifty illegal Somali migrants and a Tanzanian captain died after a ship sank off the coast of northern Mozambique. Mozambican marines sent 89 Somali and Ethiopian survivors to a refugee camp which holds about 3,000 illegal migrants.
(AP, 2/16/11)
2011 Mar 13, In Maputo, Mozambique, 2 people suffocated to death in a crowd of 10,000 at the weekend opening of the new Universal Church of the Reign of God, a Brazilian-based evangelical church.
(AFP, 3/14/11)
2011 Apr 14, Mozambique announced that it is building a $102 million (€70 million) airport in the northern city Nacala in an effort to expand infrastructure to attract tourists and investment.
(AFP, 4/14/11)
2011 May 1, In central Mozambique a US Peace Corps volunteer was raped at knife-point. On May 11 the US Congress opened hearings into the safety of the agency's volunteers worldwide. The program said more than 1,000 volunteers had been raped or sexually abused in the past decade and reported on allegations that the agency had mishandled sexual assault complaints.
(AP, 5/11/11)
2011 May 8, In Mozambique Vale, the Brazilian mining giant, opened a new $1.7 billion coal mine, tapping the southern African country's thermal and coking coal reserves of around 23 billion tons.
(AFP, 5/8/11)
2011 May 23, Mozambique’s Supreme Court slashed jail time for Antonio Munguambe, transport and communications minister from 2005 to 2008, to four and a half years as opposed to 20, saying embezzlement from a public company earned a lesser penalty than stealing money from the government.
(AFP, 5/24/11)
2011 Jun 24, Mozambique said will begin housing minors in separate prisons from adults, as the justice minister opened the country's first juvenile detention facility.
(AFP, 6/24/11)
2011 Jul 27, Mozambique’s state daily Noticias said the country’s highest decision-making body, the Council of Ministers, has endorsed measures to criminalize embezzlement, influence peddling, and graft.
(AFP, 7/27/11)
2011 Jul 28, Mozambique’s official opposition party, the former rebel group Renamo, said it will build barracks for its demobilized soldiers to "defend democracy." The first barracks will be built in the northern provinces of Cabo Delgado and Niassa, and in the central provinces of Sofala and Zambezia, one-time Renamo strongholds.
(AFP, 7/28/11)
2011 Sep 12, In Mozambique a group of 15 Ethiopian athletes, after competing at the 10th All Africa Games, went missing and left some of their possessions in the athletes' village outside the capital Maputo.
(AFP, 9/15/11)
2011 Oct 20, Italian energy giant ENI announced a giant natural gas discovery off the coast of Mozambique, which could be the largest in company's history.
(AFP, 10/20/11)
2011 Oct 26, More than 700 Mozambican civil war veterans and their families gathered in Maputo during a 2nd day of protests to demand pensions from the government. None of the 70,000 fighters from the 16-year civil war between the Frelimo government forces and Renamo rebel group currently receive pensions, while veterans from the country's liberation war against colonial power Portugal do get money from the state.
(AFP, 10/26/11)
2011 Nov 2, Mozambique state media said lynch mobs killed two people over the weekend accused of being witches. Police reportedly arrested six people for the killings.
(AFP, 11/2/11)
2011 Nov 22, A survey of some 6,000 people over the last 12 months in Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe said police are the most corrupt institution in the six countries.
(AFP, 11/22/11)
2011 SABMiller launched the world’s first commercially produced cassava beer. It was brewed in Mozambique.
(Econ, 3/24/12, p.67)
2012 Jan 15, Tropical Storm Dando hit Mozambique. 3 days of rain left 5 people dead.
(AFP, 1/19/12)
2012 Jan 22, In Mozambique storms left 12 people dead in the central province of Zambezia. Ten deaths in southern areas had been reported earlier in the aftermath of a tropical depression that brought fierce rains and wind last week.
(AP, 1/23/12)
2012 Jan 31, WFP officials said the World Food Program (WFP) will give emergency food to more than 80,000 people in Mozambique after twin cyclones left 32 dead.
(AP, 1/31/12)
2012 Feb 1, South Africa’s national parks agency said 3 young Mozambican poachers will spend 25 years behind bars after they were found with two fresh rhino horns in Kruger Park.
(AFP, 2/2/12)
2012 Feb 9, It was reported that a woman (35) recently walked through a field in northern Mozambique, near where a group of teenage boys were undergoing their ritual circumcision into adulthood. Accusing her of trespassing on sacred ground forbidden to women, the traditional leader meted out his punishment: He ordered 17 of his young initiates to gang rape her. Four of the youths were arrested.
(AFP, 2/9/12)
2012 Mar 2, Mozambique's government said it has refused to let mining giant Rio Tinto use the Zambezi River to transport coal to the Indian Ocean for export. For now the Sena railway line to Beira in the center of the country and the Nacala line in the north were the preferred export routes for coal.
(AFP, 3/2/12)
2012 Mar 8, Mozambique police stormed a camp of about 300 armed opposition supporters in the north, arresting 20 and wounding two in Nampula.
(AP, 3/8/12)
2012 Mar 15, Mozambique's Cahora Bassa dam denied cutting power to Zimbabwe, which had claimed the state-owned company had pulled the plug over unpaid bills totaling around $75 million.
(AFP, 3/15/12)
2012 Apr 18, Mozambique state-run newspaper Noticias reported that rampaging elephants are terrorizing villages near the Zimbabwe border, attacking people, trampling crops and scaring children.
(AFP, 4/18/12)
2012 May 12, The presidents of Mozambique and Malawi signed an electricity agreement in Maputo in a first step to restore troubled relations between the two southern African neighbors.
(AFP, 5/12/12)
2012 May 30, Mozambican police arrested a Vietnamese man at the main airport in Maputo as he tried to smuggle rhino horns out of the country. Doan Minh (41) had already made it past airport security screening when he was caught.
(AFP, 5/31/12)
2012 Jun, In Mozambique Danish biotech giant Novozymes led a scheme under the Cleanstar name whereby Mozambican farmers sell surplus cassava that is converted to ethanol at a new facility near the central port city of Beira. The fuel is then shipped to Maputo, where Cleanstar sells new gas operated stoves. Some 200 stoves were sold in the first month and another 3,000 were on order.
(AFP, 6/9/12)
2012 Jul 21, Mozambique launched a Brazilian funded pharmaceutical plant that will make anti-retroviral drugs to battle the HIV/AIDS scourge in the southern African country. The plant will initially package drugs from Brazil but start producing the pills by the end of the year.
(AFP, 7/21/12)
2012 Jul 31, Malawi vowed to press on with oil and gas exploration on Lake Malawi, dismissing a demand by Tanzania, which claims half of the lake, to halt prospecting. Mozambique also owns part of the lake.
(AFP, 7/31/12)
2012 Aug 18, In Mozambique Southern African leaders slammed Rwanda for supporting rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a threat to regional stability and urged Kigali to immediately stop its "interference." The Southern African Development Community (SADC) mandated a mission to Rwanda to urge them to stop support for the M23.
(AFP, 8/18/12)
2012 Aug 31, Mozambican police killed Orquilio Nhassengo, the suspected kingpin of a kidnapping ring that has targeted wealthy Muslims in Maputo, during a raid in which six were also arrested.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 9, In England a man fell to the ground in the Mortlake neighborhood of West London when a jet passing overhead lowered its landing gear as it neared the runway at Heathrow Airport. The apparent stowaway had no identification papers, just some currency from Angola. The man was later identified as Jose Matada of Mozambique.
(AP, 12/10/12)(SFC, 4/12/13, p.A2)
2012 Nov 15, In Mozambique youths in Maputo burned tires and attacked motorists over hikes in bus fees.
(AP, 11/15/12)
2012 Nov 18, In Mozambique pilots and crew members at the national airline went on strike, grounding the carrier.
(AP, 11/18/12)
2012 Dec 21, In Mozambique 14 people died when a tire burst on a speeding minibus, causing the driver to lose control and collide with an oncoming vehicle.
(AP, 12/22/12)0
2012 Mozambique ranked 184 out of 187 on the UN’s Human Development Index.
(Economist, 9/29/12, p.54)
2013 Jan 29, The UN said more than 150,000 have been displaced by flooding in Mozambique over the last several days as the overall death toll stood at 38.
(AP, 1/29/13)
2013 Apr 9, Mozambican authorities say they have made some arrests after recent attacks and fighting between police and alleged members of an opposition group killed at least seven people and wounded 13 people in the violence in Sofala province.
(AP, 4/9/13)
2013 Apr, In Mozambique Renamo militia attacked a police position killing 4 officers. They said it was in response to an army raid on their Satunjira base camp.
(Econ, 11/9/13, p.54)
2013 May 2, It was reported that the last rhino in Mozambique has been killed. The warden in charge of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park — the only place where the horned behemoths lived in Mozambique — also said poachers have wiped out the last of the rhinos. Mozambique's conservation director believed a few may remain.
(AP, 5/2/13)
2013 Jun 15, In Mozambique regional presidents of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), meeting at a special summit on Zimbabwe asked President Mugabe to delay crucial elections he has set for the end of July while asking the nation to guarantee conditions for free and fair elections.
(AP, 6/15/13)
2013 Jun 17, In Mozambique an assault by 100-150 opposition fighters on an arms depot in Sofala province killed 6 government troops and injured three others.
(AP, 6/18/13)
2013 Aug 11, Mozambican government forces over the weekend attacked a guerrilla camp of the Renamo opposition group in a flareup of violence ahead of local and presidential elections between former foes from the country's devastating 17-year civil war.
(Reuters, 8/13/13)
2013 Sep 11, Mozambique's bid to end a conflict with former rebels that has unnerved investors hit an impasse after the group's leader refused to leave his bush camp for talks.
(AFP, 9/11/13)
2013 Oct 17, Mozambique government forces killed two fighters from rebel group Renamo in clashes on the first anniversary of their leader's return to the bush.
(AFP, 10/17/13)
2013 Oct 21, Mozambique ex-rebel group Renamo declared the end of a peace deal signed 21 years ago after the army seized its military base.
(AFP, 10/21/13)
2013 Oct 26, In central Mozambique armed gunmen attacked a civilian convoy including a passenger bus, killing one and wounding at least ten.
(AFP, 10/26/13)
2013 Nov 5, Mozambique's revived rebel movement Renamo spurned the government's invite for high level face-to-face talks to end destabilising military skirmishes. Opposition fighters killed 4 soldiers in two separate attacks amid escalating violence in the central part of the country.
(AFP, 11/5/13)(AP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 15, In Mozambique suspected Renamo ex-rebels ambushed a convoy of cars killing one person and wounding 10 others along a key highway in the latest of low-intensity attacks gripping the country.
(AFP, 11/15/13)
2013 Nov 20, Mozambique held local elections. Preliminary results from the largely peaceful elections pointed to a comprehensive victory for the ruling Frelimo party and a potential shake-up among the country's opposition parties.
(AFP, 11/21/13)
2013 Nov 29, A Mozambique Airlines plane carrying 33 people crashed in a Namibian national park, killing all on board. On Dec 21 a preliminary investigation reported that the captain had a "clear intention" to crash.
(AP, 11/30/13)(AP, 12/1/13)(AFP, 12/21/13)
2014 Jan 15, Mozambican police say they have arrested four Rwandans, including Lt. Col. Francis Gakwerere, a senior official in the Rwandan armed forces, for the Jan 1 murder in South Africa of former Rwandan spymaster Col. Patrick Karegeya. The four were arrested last week.
(AP, 1/15/14)
2014 Jan, Japan’s PM Shinzo Abe visited the Ivory Coast, Mozambique and Ethiopia to counter China’s success in building diplomatic support and winning access to raw materials.
(Econ, 1/25/14, p.34)
2014 Mar 2, Mozambique agriculture minister Jose Pacheco said that more than 300,000 people in central and southern regions of the country face famine this year.
(AP, 3/3/14)
2014 Mar 7, Mozambican PM Alberto Vaquina says attacks by the opposition party and former rebel movement Renamo have displaced more than 6,000 people in the central parts of the country.
(AP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 10, Flooding in parts of southern Mozambique prompted authorities to call on people to evacuate. More than 6,000 people living in the Incomati basin were at risk from flooding.
(AFP, 3/10/14)
2014 Mar 10, South Africa said it will ask Mozambican authorities to investigate reports of sexual abuse of its female nationals held in the neighbouring country's jails.
(AFP, 3/10/14)
2014 Jun 5, Mozambique's revived rebel movement Renamo called off a truce with government forces, warning that armed attacks would spread from the main north-south highway across the country. Local media reported at least four deaths this week in as many attacks on vehicles travelling along the EN1 highway between the Save River and the town of Muxungue.
(AFP, 6/5/14)
2014 Sep 5, In Mozambique a peace accord was signed in Maputo between Pres. Armando Guebuza and Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama. It was intended to end almost 2 years of hostilities between the two sides.
(AP, 9/6/14)
2014 Sep 7, In Mozambique six suspected poachers were arrested in the Niassa National Reserve wildlife reserve, home to about two-thirds of the country’s elephants.
(AP, 9/14/14)
2014 Oct 9, In Mozambique the Maputo-based Center for Public Integrity (CIP) said ruling Frelimo party boosted campaign funds for upcoming elections by smuggling timber to Chinese buyers.
(AFP, 10/10/14)
2014 Oct 12, In Mozambique brawling supporters of Frelimo and opposition party Renamo clashed in the northern city of Nampula, where 23 people were injured and 13 others arrested ahead of legislative and provincial elections on Oct 15.
(AFP, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 15, Mozambicans voted in a tough electoral test for the ruling Frelimo party, which has run the southern African country since independence from Portugal in 1975. The race put Frelimo's Filipe Nyusi (55), the former defense minister, against Afonso Dhlakama (61), the veteran leader of former rebel group Renamo, and Daviz Simango (50), founder of the Mozambique Democratic Party (MDM). Provisional results on Oct 24 said Nyusi won with 57% of the vote. Dhlakama took 36% and Simango took nearly 7%.
(AFP, 10/15/14)(AP, 10/19/14)(Reuters, 10/24/14)
2014 Oct 17, Mozambican Renamo opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama said he would challenge elections held this week which he called unfair and marred by fraud.
(AP, 10/17/14)
2014 Oct 19, A Mozambican opposition party which came third in presidential and legislative polls said it rejected the results and would mount a legal challenge.
(AFP, 10/19/14)
2014 Oct 20, Mozambique's national elections commission said that vote counting in the country's northwestern province has stopped due to possible fraud with more than 60 percent of votes counted so far.
(AP, 10/20/14)
2014 Oct 30, The Mozambique National Electoral Commission said Filipe Nyusi (55) of the governing Frelimo party has been elected as the next president with 57% of the vote in final results of polls two weeks ago.
(AP, 10/30/14)
2014 Nov 12, In Mozambique Mohamed Bachir Suleman, a wealthy businessman accused by the US government in 2010 of being an international drug trafficker, was kidnapped by four men with assault rifles in the parking lot of a shopping mall that he owns in Maputo. Police rescued Suleman on Dec 19. He believed his kidnappers were Zimbabwean and South African nationals.
(AP, 11/14/14)(AP, 12/20/14)(AFP, 12/21/14)
2014 Dec 19, Mozambican authorities said 5 people have died in floods in the capital Maputo, after days of torrential rain.
(AP, 12/19/14)
2015 Jan 6, Mozambique police arrested Antonio Muchanga, a senior official of Renamo, the country's largest opposition party, on charges of inciting violence amid renewed political tension between the former rebel group and government.
(AFP, 1/6/15)
2015 Jan 11, In Mozambique a contaminated traditional beer called Pombe killed numerous people in Tete province. The death toll soon reached 69 with 196 others admitted to hospital.
(AP, 1/11/15)(SFC, 1/12/15, p.A3)(SFC, 1/13/15, p.A2)
2015 Jan 14, The Mozambique government disaster management office said heavy flooding has killed 10 people and displaced nearly 20,000 more.
(AP, 1/14/15)
2015 Jan 15, Mozambique's new President Filipe Nyusi was sworn into office in a ceremony boycotted by the main opposition party.
(AFP, 1/15/15)
2015 Feb 11, The Mozambique government said a cholera epidemic has killed 19 people in the north following flooding that devastated the region.
(AFP, 2/11/15)
2015 Feb 19, In Mozambique at least one person was killed and 12 wounded when a cargo train laden with coal derailed near Magude.
(AFP, 2/19/15)
2015 Mar 3, In Mozambique a gunman shot dead Gilles Cistac (54), a prominent lawyer, who was viewed as sympathetic to opposition calls for decentralization of power. Former rebel group Renamo said Cistac had been killed because of his views on decentralization. On April 13 police said Manuel Lucio and Arsenio Nhaposse have been arrested in connection with the murder.
(Reuters, 3/3/15)(Reuters, 4/13/15)
2015 Mar 7, In Mozambique hundreds of human rights activists and students marched in Maputo demanding justice for the March 3 murder of lawyer Gilles Cistac.
(Econ., 3/14/15, p.52)
2015 May 12, Mozambican police seized 340 elephant tusks and 65 rhino horns from a house in the city of Matola. Two Chinese citizens were arrested. Mozambique's elephant population has dropped from just over 20,000 to about 10,300 since 2009.
(AP, 5/28/15)
2015 May 27, Mozambican police said six police officers officials have been arrested after 50 kg (110 pounds) of rhino horn were stolen from a huge cache seized from poachers only two weeks ago.
(AFP, 5/27/15)(AP, 5/28/15)
2015 May, A North Korean diplomat was arrested in Mozambique on charges related to rhino horn smuggling.
(AP, 12/23/15)
2015 Jun 11, Mozambique news reported that authorities have arrested five police officers for colluding with a poacher in the illegal sale of a rhino horn.
(AP, 6/11/15)
2015 Jun 29, Mozambique decriminalized homosexuality when a new penal code came into force that swept away old Portuguese colonial laws.
(AFP, 6/29/15)
2015 Jul 6, Mozambique authorities burned more than 2.6 tons of ivory and rhino horns confiscated during various anti-poaching busts, demonstrating a tough stance on wildlife trafficking.
(AFP, 7/6/15)
2015 Jul 27, A Malawian official said hundreds of Mozambicans have fled into the neighboring country following fighting between the government and opposition fighters.
(AP, 7/27/15)
2015 Aug 29, In Mozambique veteran journalist Paulo Machava, known for his crime reporting, was gunned down on the streets of the capital.
(AP, 8/29/15)
2015 Sep 17, Mozambique declared itself free of landmines, ending two decades of work to rid the country of a legacy of war that killed or maimed thousands of people.
(Reuters, 9/17/15)
2015 Sep 25, In Mozambique 9 members of a convoy carrying Mozambique's opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama were killed along with a driver in a shootout. Surviving Renamo members, apparently including Dhlakama, fled into the bush and a police operation was continuing in the area.
(AFP, 9/26/15)
2015 Dec 12, Mozambique said the United States will grant it $1.2 billion in aid to fund projects in healthcare, food production and education under a five-year agreement signed this week.
(Reuters, 12/12/15)
2016 Jan 14, Mozambican refugees were reported flooding into Malawi by the hundreds, recounting how government forces are torching their homes and barns in the hunt for supporters of Renamo opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama, who aims to seize power in six provinces.
(AFP, 1/14/16)
2016 Mar 3, Mozambique aviation authorities displayed the recovered a one-meter fragment from a Boeing 777 believed to be from flight MH370 which vanished on March 8, 2014. Blaine Gibson, a lawyer from Seattle, recently discovered the fragment on a sandbank near the tourist island of Benguerra.
(AFP, 3/3/16)
2016 Mar 27, Thailand seized 87 ivory tusks, worth an estimated $800,000, found in a dozen barrels sent from Mozambique on a Kenya Airways flight. A routine X-ray at Suvarnabhumi International Airport detected the contraband.
(AP, 4/5/16)
2016 Apr 15, The IMF said it suspended lending to Mozambique for failing to disclose some $1.4 billion of hidden debts.
(http://tinyurl.com/y77l7neo)(Econ 6/17/17, p.67)
2016 May 16, The International Federation of Red Cross and the Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) pledged $110 million to a new initiative to help drought-stricken southern African countries including Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.
(AP, 5/16/16)
2016 May, In Mozambique the Renamo insurgent group carried out 18 attacks on the main road, killing 7 people and leaving more than 30 wounded. Since 2013, tensions have risen and Renamo fighters have again taken up arms in a battle that it says is against a Frelimo elite who has enriched itself at the expense of the country.
(AFP, 6/19/16)
2016 Jul 28, The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said some 23 million farmers in drought-hit Southern Africa need urgent help to prepare for the next planting season with only a few weeks left before it begins. It said Botswana, Swaziland, South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe have reported more than 640,000 drought-related livestock deaths. Farmers and cattle herders in 10 countries have requested assistance: Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
(Reuters, 7/28/16)
2016 Jul, Moody’s downgraded Mozambique saying it was very near to defaulting on its government bonds.
(Econ, 7/16/16, p.38)
2016 Aug 12, In Mozambique 6 civilians burned to death in an attack by Renamo rebels, the latest in a string of violent skirmishes between opposition fighters and government forces.
(AFP, 8/15/16)
2016 Nov 17, In Mozambique a tanker truck carrying petrol exploded in Tete province. 43 people were killed on the spot. The death toll soon rose to 80 with 35 in critical condition.
(AFP, 11/18/16)(SFC, 11/17/16, p.A2)(AFP, 11/21/16)
2016 Dec 16, Cambodian authorities found 1.3 metric tons of ivory, 10 cheetah skulls and 82 kg (180 pounds) of cheetah bones, and 137 kg (301 pounds) of pangolin scales concealed in three containers shipped from Mozambique.
(AP, 12/22/16)
2016 Dec 27, Mozambique's opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama said Renamo will cease all military operations against government forces for the next seven days to allow the public to enjoy New Year festivities.
(Reuters, 12/27/16)
2017 Jan 3, Mozambique's Renamo opposition party said it had extended a ceasefire by two months to allow talks with President Filipe Nyusi's government, raising hopes for a nascent peace process.
(Reuters, 1/3/17)
2017 Jan 16, Mozambique, caught between a scandal over hidden debt that has prompted an aid cut-off and a commodity price slump, said it would miss a $60 million interest payment.
(AFP, 1/16/17)
2017 Jan 24, In Mozambique Turkish Pres. Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on leader Filipe Nyusi to take action against the exiled cleric he blames for last year's failed coup.
(AFP, 1/24/17)
2017 Feb 15, Tropical storm Dineo hit the coastline of Mozambique. At least two people were killed and in and further casualties were expected.
(Reuters, 2/16/17)
2017 Feb 17, Mozambique disaster officials said Cyclone Dineo has killed seven people, injured 55 and affected hundreds of thousands across southern Mozambique.
(AFP, 2/17/17)
2017 May 4, The leader of Mozambique's Renamo opposition party and rebel movement said he was extending a ceasefire indefinitely, part of an agreement reached in talks with the government to end violence since a disputed 2014 election.
(Reuters, 5/4/17)
2017 Jun 6, Mozambique police warned that bald people could be the targets of ritual attacks, after the brutal killing of two men last month in Milange whose body parts were to be used in witchcraft. Two suspects were under arrest.
(AFP, 6/7/17)
2017 Sep 27, It was reported that hundreds of vultures in Namibia died after feeding on an elephant carcass that poachers had poisoned. Poachers in Zimbabwe used cyanide to kill dozens of elephants for their ivory tusks. In Mozambique three lions died after eating bait infused with a crop pesticide.
(AP, 9/27/17)
2017 Oct 4, In Mozambique Mahamudo Amurane (44), the mayor of Nampula, was fatally shot after giving a speech about peace efforts on the 25th anniversary of the signing of an accord that ended the country's civil war.
(AP, 10/5/17)
2017 Oct 5, In Mozambique a war started when a group of insurgents occupied the district town and port of Mocimboa da Praia for two days. The war expanded rapidly and by Sept. 2020 at least 1,500 people have been killed and an estimated 250,000 have fled their homes.
(BBC, 9/17/20)
2017 Oct 6, In northern Mozambique suspected Islamists attacked a string of police stations in the small town of Mocimboa de Praia over the last 24 hours killing two policemen. 14 of the gunmen were slain. was believed to be the first jihadist attack on the country.
(AFP, 10/7/17)(AFP, 6/7/18)
2018 Feb 19, In Mozambique heavy rains triggered the partial collapse of a huge mound of garbage at the Hulene dump on the outskirts of Maputo, killing as many as 17 people who were buried by debris.
(AP, 2/19/18)
2018 Feb 22, Mozambique’s National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC) said in its latest update that the southern hemisphere summer rainy season has killed 50 people in Mozambique since October.
(Reuters, 2/22/18)
2018 Mar 14, A Mozambique government spokeswoman said pests and disease have destroyed at least a third of the country's agricultural crops over the past 11 months. A day earlier the cabinet approved a 160 million metical ($2.6 million) action plan to combat pests and disease.
(Reuters, 3/14/18)
2018 May 3, Mozambique veteran rebel leader Afonso Dhlakama (65), who had opened talks with the government, died unexpectedly. Local media said he suffered sever diabetes. For 39 years Dhlakama led Renamo, the rebel group which fought a 16-year civil war against the ruling Frelimo party. In December 2016, Dhlakama announced a surprise truce with the government in the major first step towards a formal peace deal.
(AP, 5/4/18)
2018 May 27, In Mozambique 10 people, including two teenagers, were beheaded in the country's north. Police said evidence shows the attackers are with the same group that killed police officers in Mocimboa da Praia in October amid concerns that the machete-wielding attackers have links to Islamic extremism.
(AP, 5/30/18)
2018 Jun 5, In northern Mozambique suspected jihadists hacked seven people to death after beheading 10 people in another settlement on May 27.
(AFP, 6/7/18)
2018 Jun 6, In northern Mozambique suspected jihadists wielding knives and machetes killed five people in a region that has been rocked by attacks blamed on radical Islamists.
(AFP, 6/7/18)
2018 Jun 8, In Mozambique a US embassy alert warned of an imminent attack on the regional gas hub Palma. Since October, more than 30 people have been killed in brazen assaults on unarmed villagers.
(AFP, 6/24/18)
2018 Jul 5, It was reported that Mozambique has emerged as one of the world's key heroin trading hubs, with the drug now the country's second largest export as it is smuggled from Afghanistan to Europe.
(AFP, 7/5/18)
2018 Jul 23, Diamond producer De Beers said it was relocating 200 elephants from its private reserve in South Africa to neighboring Mozambique, part of wider efforts to restore wildlife populations ravaged by conflict there.
(Reuters, 7/23/18)
2018 Sep 20, In northern Mozambique 12 villagers were killed and 14 injured in an attack late today by suspected jihadists in the village of Paqueue. Separately a military convoy came under attack near the Tanzanian border north of Paqueue, killing a senior army officer.
(AFP, 9/21/18)
2018 Oct 6, Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi launched an initiative to disarm and reintegrate the military wing of the country's main opposition party, Renamo, as part of efforts to bolster peace and security.
(Reuters, 10/6/18)
2018 Nov 23, In northern Mozambique 12 people were killed in a suspected Islamist attack, with thousands of villagers fleeing the area into neighboring Tanzania.
(AFP, 11/25/18)
2018 Dec 13, Cambodian authorities seized more than 3 tons of rare African ivory hidden inside an abandoned shipping container, the country's largest haul of elephant tusks in the last four years. The ivory was sent from Mozambique.
(AP, 12/15/18)
2018 Dec 29 South Africa arrested Manuel Chang, the former Mozambican finance minister, at the Johannesburg airport. A US indictment alleged that Chang and others violated US anti-corruption laws in a $2 billion loan scandal that plunged Mozambique into financial crisis.
(AP, 1/9/19)
2019 Jan 22, In Mozambique South African businessman Andre Mayer Hanekom (61), held on suspicion of being a jihadist leader, died in hospital under mysterious circumstances. Hanekom, who ran a maritime business in Palma, was arrested in August alongside two locals and two Tanzanians, with prosecutors accusing them of being part of a jihadist group.
(AFP, 1/23/19)
2019 Jan 29, British mining group Gemfields said it will pay 5.8 million pounds in compensation to nearly 300 miners over accusations of torture around a ruby mine in Mozambique, but denied liability.
(AFP, 1/29/19)
2019 Feb 8, In northern Mozambique local sources said suspected jihadists have killed seven men and abducted four women in the latest violence to hit the Cabo Delgado region. The bodies were cut into pieces and left in Piqueue village.
(AFP, 2/8/19)
2019 Feb 21, In northern Mozambique a local worker was killed and six others were wounded when two road convoys operated by US gas giant Anadarko came under attack.
(AFP, 2/22/19)
2019 Mar 14, Mozambique cancelled flights to several domestic destinations as a tropical cyclone, potentially the strongest to hit the country in nearly two decades, approached. Cyclone Idai hit Mozambique late today and continued on to Zimbabwe and Malawi. Over the next two days more than 140 people were killed, hundreds more were missing and tens of thousands left stranded in mainly poor, rural areas.
(AFP, 3/14/19)(AP, 3/16/19)(SSFC, 3/17/19, p.A7)
2019 Mar 18, Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi said that more than 1,000 may have by killed by Cyclone Idai. The official death count stood at 84. The Red Cross said that 90 percent of Beira, a city of 500,000, had been damaged or destroyed. The death toll in Malawi from heavy rains and flooding stood at 56 as of last week.
(AP, 3/18/19)(Reuters, 3/18/19)
2019 Mar 19, Aid workers in Mozambique said rapidly rising floodwaters have created "an inland ocean" endangering scores of thousands of families, as they scrambled to rescue survivors of Cyclone Idai who clung to rooftops and trees.
(AP, 3/19/19)
2019 Mar 20, In Mozambique aid workers scrambled to save hundreds trapped by floods around the port city of Beira. At least 200 people have died in Mozambique and 98 in Zimbabwe, but the death toll is likely to rise as rescuers are still finding bodies.
(Reuters, 3/20/19)
2019 Mar 21, Mozambique authorities said the death toll in the country has risen to 217 and around 15,000 people, many of them very ill, still need to be rescued. In neighboring Zimbabwe, the death toll from Cyclone Idai jumped to 139.
(Reuters, 3/21/19)
2019 Mar 22, The confirmed death toll in Mozambique and neighboring Zimbabwe reached 432, with 293 killed in Mozambique, and around 1.7 million people affected. Hundreds of thousands of people scrambled for shelter, food and water across a swathe of southern Africa.
(AFP, 3/22/19)(Reuters, 3/22/19)
2019 Mar 23, Mozambique said the number of people killed after Cyclone Idai tore through the country has risen to 417.
(Reuters, 3/23/19)
2019 Mar 24, Mozambique's death toll rose to 446 from 417. In Zimbabwe, UN agencies have given different tolls of 259 and 154, while in Malawi 56 people died in heavy rains ahead of Cyclone Idai.
(AP, 3/24/19)
2019 Mar 27, A Mozambique government official said five cases of cholera have been confirmed following Cyclone Idai that ravaged the country, killing at least 468 people.
(AFP, 3/27/19)
2019 Mar 27, UN officials said at least 707 people had been reported killed by Cyclone Idai, the flooding it caused and heavy rains before it hit. This included 468 in Mozambique, 259 in Zimbabwe and 60 in Malawi.
(Reuters, 3/27/19)
2019 Mar 29, In Mozambique the number of confirmed cases of cholera in the cyclone-hit port city of Beira jumped from five to 138, as government and aid agencies battled to contain the spread of disease among the tens of thousands of victims of the storm.
(Reuters, 3/29/19)
2019 Mar 30, Mozambique authorities said cholera cases among cyclone survivors have jumped to 271, a figure that nearly doubled from the previous day.
(AP, 3/30/19)
2019 Mar 30, United Nations officials said at least 746 people have been reported killed in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe since Cyclone Idai landed on March 14.
(Reuters, 3/30/19)
2019 Apr 1, Mozambican and international health workers raced to contain the outbreak of cholera in the cyclone-hit city of Beira and surrounding areas, where cases of the disease has jumped to more than 1,000.
(AP, 4/1/19)
2019 Apr 2, Mozambique officials said cholera cases have risen above 1,400 as hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses arrived in an attempt to limit the rapid spread of the disease.
(AP, 4/2/19)
2019 Apr 3, In Mozambique a vaccination campaign was launched in the central city of Beira after a cyclone slammed into the region and unleashed an outbreak of cholera. The disease has already killed two people and infected more than 1,400.
(AFP, 4/3/19)
2019 Apr 7, UN and government officials said at least 847 people have been killed by Cyclone Idai, the flooding it caused and heavy rains after it hit Mozambique (602), Zimbabwe (259) and Malawi (60).
(Reuters, 4/7/19)
2019 Apr 8, A South African court ruled that Michael Chang (63), a Mozambican ex-finance minister held since December on a US arrest warrant, can be extradited to either the United States or his home country. Ultimately the South African government is likely to decide where he goes.
(AFP, 4/8/19)
2019 Apr 9, Zimbabwe updated its death toll from Cyclone Idai to 344 while Mozambique said recorded fatalities stood at 602, taking the combined tally to 946.
(AFP, 4/10/19)
2019 Apr 25, In Mozambique a powerful tropical cyclone began to make landfall, just six weeks after Cyclone Idai devastated the central part of the country and left hundreds dead.
(AP, 4/25/19)
2019 Apr 25, Cyclone Kenneth lashed the East African island nation of Comoros overnight, killing three people, and swept toward flood-battered Mozambique.
(AP, 4/25/19)
2019 Apr 26, Cyclone Kenneth ripped off roofs in Mozambique and killed at least three people as the UN warned of "massive flooding" ahead. Over the next 10 days, the storm is expected to dump twice as much rain as Cyclone Idai did last month.
(AP, 4/26/19)
2019 Apr 27, Mozambican officials urged those living near two rivers in the country's north to move to higher ground, as Cyclone Kenneth dumped heavy rains and caused some flooding. The death toll from Kenneth rose to five.
(Reuters, 4/27/19)
2019 Apr 29, In northern Mozambique rains grounded aid flights for a second day, hampering efforts to reach survivors of Cyclone Kenneth as the death toll there jumped to 38.
(Reuters, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 30, Rains pounded parts of northern Mozambique, several days after Cyclone Kenneth struck the southern African nation. The UN said aid workers faced difficulties in reaching thousands of survivors and the death toll rose to 41.
(AP, 4/30/19)
2019 May, In Mozambique the death toll from Cyclones Idai in March and Kenneth this month killed more than 650 people, plus hundreds of others in Zimbabwe and Malawi.
(SFC, 5/31/19, p.A3)
2019 May 3, The World Bank said will extend more than half-a-billion dollars in grants for cyclone-ravaged southern African countries as he concluded a visit to Mozambique. A total of up to $545 million will be disbursed to Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, the three countries hit by Cyclone Idai in March.
(AFP, 5/3/19)
2019 Jun 3, UN officials said international donors have pledged $1.2 billion to help Mozambique recover from the devastation caused by cyclones Idai and Kenneth, but $3.2 billion is needed overall.
(AFP, 6/3/19)
2019 Jun 4, The Islamic State group claimed it was involved in an insurgent clash late today in Mozambique for the first time. An expert expressed doubt and police dismissed the claim outright.
(AFP, 6/5/19)
2019 Jun 16, Two members of Mozambique's border police were shot dead in an incident involving South African soldiers and the two countries launched a joint investigation into what happened.
(Reuters, 6/17/19)
2019 Aug 1, Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi and the leader of the main opposition party Renamo signed a permanent ceasefire agreement, designed to put an end to almost half a century of hostilities that killed over 1 million people at their peak.
(Reuters, 8/1/19)
2019 Aug 6, Mozambique's leaders hoped to close the book on a decades-long conflict with the signing of a new peace accord. But an election in October and new causes of violence meant lasting peace is far from assured.
(AP, 8/6/19)
2019 Aug 22, In Russia Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi signed energy and security agreements with Pres. Vladimir Putin in the first visit by a leader from the southern African state in two decades.
(AFP, 8/22/19)
2019 Aug 27, The Mozambican government formally launched an exchange offer for its defaulted 2023 Eurobond, seeking the consent of bondholders for a restructuring that would ease pressure on its strained public finances.
(Reuters, 8/27/19)
2019 Sep 4, Pope Francis opened a 3-nation pilgrimage to southern Africa with a visit to Mozambique.
(SFC, 9/5/19, p.A4)
2019 Sep 5, In Mozambique Pope Francis praised Pres. Felipe Nyusi and opposition leader Ossufo Momade for their courage in signing a new, landmark peace accord.
(SFC, 9/6/19, p.A4)
2019 Sep 11, The five members of the Southern African Customs Union and Mozambique said they have reached a deal with the UK to govern trade between them after Brexit.
(Bloomberg, 9/11/19)
2019 Oct 7, In Mozambique Anastacio Matavel, a key local election observer, was shot dead this morning, a week before the presidential vote, after leaving a training for national election observers in southern Gaza province.
(AP, 10/8/19)
2019 Oct 15, Mozambicans voted today in an election which President Filipe Nyusi said should help anchor peace, while his opposition rival warned against any manipulation of the results.
(Reuters, 10/15/19)
2019 Oct 19, In Mozambique the opposition Renamo party held a press conference and issued a statement accusing Frelimo of violating the country's fragile peace accord. Incumbent President Filipe Nyusi has taken an early lead in results from this week's presidential election but Renamo has questioned the results.
(Reuters, 10/19/19)
2019 Oct 27, Mozambique's National Election Commission (CNE) said incumbent President Filipe Nyusi has won a landslide victory in the Oct. 15 election it was hoped would calm tensions in a nation soon to become a top global gas exporter, but has instead stoked divisions as opposition parties cry foul.
(Reuters, 10/27/19)
2019 Nov 22, It was reported that a month's long drought is affecting most of southern Africa. The area has received just one normal rainfall in the last five growing seasons. More than 11 million people faced food insecurity in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.
(SFC, 11/22/19, p.A6)
2019 Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi hired Russia's Wagner Group to tackle a jihadist insurgency in the north. The group pulled out after a bunch of its men were killed. The government then hire the Dyck Advisory Group (DAG), led by Lionel Dyck, a South Africa-based colonel.
(Econ., 5/30/20, p.37)
2020 Jan 15, Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi (60) was sworn in for a second and final term after five turbulent years in office amid two armed insurgencies.
(AP, 1/15/20)
2020 Feb 1, It was reported that Exxon Mobil Corp and Total have asked Mozambique to send more troops to guard their operations in the far north after a surge of attacks by Islamist militants.
(Reuters, 2/1/20)
2020 Feb 7, The UN said people are fleeing a surge of attacks in northern Mozambique where witnesses have described beheadings, mass kidnappings and villages burned to the ground.
(Reuters, 2/7/20)
2020 Mar 23, In northern Mozambique militants staged an overnight attack on Mocimboa de Praia, taking a military base and raising their flag. The transport hub is near what may be Africa's largest ever gas project.
(AP, 3/23/20)(Economist, 4/4/20, p.9)
2020 Mar 24, Mozambican immigration officers found 64 dead bodies in a shipping container on the back of a lorry that had crossed into Mozambique from Malawi. There were 14 survivors.
(BBC, 3/24/20)
2020 Apr 7, In northern Mozambique Islamist militants killed around 52 people in the village of Xitaxi in Muidumbe district. The attack only came to light on April 21.
(BBC, 4/22/20)
2020 Apr 8, Rioting broke out in the Mozambican port city of Nacala after the authorities tried to ban motorcycle taxis due to the coronavirus pandemic.
(BBC, 4/9/20)
2020 Apr 8, Banco Comercial Portugues (BCP) began legal action against Mozambique, becoming the latest bank to pursue the heavily indebted East African state, which has been embroiled in a long-running $2 billion debt scandal.
(Reuters, 4/16/20)
2020 Apr 13, In Mozambique Gilberto Aparecido dos Santos (49), aka Fuminho, was arrested in Maputo after spending more than two decades on the run. He was one of Brazil's most wanted criminals and the alleged leader of the São Paulo-based First Capital Command (PCC) drug gang, accused of shipping tons of cocaine around the world.
(BBC, 4/14/20)
2020 Apr 19, Mozambique expelled a fugitive Brazilian cocaine trafficker following his arrest this week. Brazilian media reported that Gilberto Aparecido dos Santos left Mozambique early this morning in a Brazilian Air Force plane bound for Brazil.
(Reuters, 4/20/20)
2020 May 16, It was reported that Mozambique's armed forces killed 50 Islamic extremist fighters this week in battles in the gas-rich Cabo Delgado province.
(SFC, 5/16/20, p.A2)
2020 Jun 18, It was reported that six policemen in Mozambique have been found guilty of murdering an election observer ahead of last October's election. Anastacio Matavel was shot as he was driving in the southern city of Xai-Xai. His car was hit by 13 bullets.
(BBC, 6/18/20)
2020 Jul, The French firm oil firm Total secured $15 billion in loans for its liquified natural gas operations in Mozambique. This was the biggest project finance deal in African history.
(Econ., 8/29/20, p.33)
2020 Aug 5, In Mozambique insurgents another assault on the port of Mocimoa da Praia. They killed more than 50 soldiers and sank a small naval ship.
(Econ., 8/29/20, p.32)
2020 Aug 11, In Mozambique insurgents took the port of Mocimoa da Praia.
(Econ., 8/29/20, p.32)
2020 Aug 13, Mozambique said its troops are fighting to regain control of the key port of Mocimboa da Praia, following multiple reports that it had fallen to Islamist militants a day earlier. Dozens of soldiers were reported killed, and a patrol boat sunk. The army said it has killed about 60 militants.
(BBC, 8/13/20)
2020 Aug 23, In Mozambique the premises of two leading independent newspapers, the weekly Canal de Mozambique and the daily CanalMoz, were attacked late today with petrol bombs and burned. The Center for Democracy said the fire-bombing could be linked to a report Canal printed days earlier about bribery and the efforts of prominent Mozambicans to win control of part of the fuel retail business worth millions of dollars.
(AP, 8/24/20)
2020 Sep 9, Amnesty International accused Mozambique’s government security forces of torturing suspected members of an Islamist insurgency in the country’s northern Cabo Delgado province — as well as “possible extrajudicial executions", and of “discarding of a large number of corpses into apparent mass graves".
(AP, 9/9/20)
2020 Sep 14, In Mozambique a video emerged showing people dressed in army uniforms beating and killing a naked woman in the restive gas-rich Cabo Delgado province. The defence ministry soon condemned the footage as "horrifying" and vowed to "ascertain their authenticity". Defense Minister Jaime Neto later said that the video was doctored.
(BBC, 9/15/20)(AP, 9/16/20)
2020 Sep 22, The World Food Program said escalating extremist insurgency in northern Mozambique has displaced 310,000 people, creating an urgent humanitarian crisis.
(AP, 9/22/20)
2020 Nov 4, It was reported that at least 40 people fleeing extremist violence in northern Mozambique drowned when their boat sank.
(AP, 11/4/20)
2020 Nov 9, Mozambique state media reported that more than 50 people have been beheaded in northern Cabo Delgado province by militant Islamists over the few days.
(BBC, 11/9/20)
2020 Nov 10, The UN called on Mozambique to investigate reports that militants had massacred villagers and beheaded women and children in a restive northern region.
(Reuters, 11/11/20)
2021 Jan 24, Cyclone Eloise left parts of central Mozambique flooded after it struck near the port city of Beira. Four people were reported killed as the cyclone headed towards Zimbabwe and northern South Africa. The death toll was later raised to 21.
(BBC, 1/24/21)(AFP, 1/29/21)
2021 Feb 23, In Mozambique 86 dolphin carcasses were found on Bazaruto Island, north of the capital Maputo, after a first group of 14 was washed ashore two days earlier. Last week Cyclone Guambe caused unrest in the waters off the island of Bazaruto.
(BBC, 2/24/21)
2021 Feb 24, Portugal said it will send 5% of its COVID-19 vaccine shots to a group of Portuguese-speaking African countries and to the tiny nation of East Timor in the second half of the year. Portugal's former African colonies include Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, and Sao Tome and Principe.
(Reuters, 2/24/21)
2021 Mar 2, International rights group Amnesty International said war crimes have been committed by all sides fighting in Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province, including jihadi rebels, government forces and a South African mercenary outfit that provides helicopter support to government troops.
(AP, 3/2/21)
2021 Mar 10, The US government designated al-Shabaab in Mozambique as a "foreign terrorist organization", describing it as an IS-affiliate.
(BBC, 3/21/21)
2021 Mar 12, It was reported that more than half a million people in the Palma region of northern Mozambique have been driven from their homes in the past 12 months as al-Shabab militants terrorized the area.
(BBC, 3/12/21)
2021 Mar 15, The US embassy in Mozambique said US special operations forces will support Mozambique's efforts to prevent the spread of terrorism and violent extremism".
(BBC, 3/21/21)
2021 Mar 16, Aid agency Save the Children said Islamist militants are beheading children as young as 11 in Mozambique's northern province of Cabo Delgado.
(BBC, 3/16/21)
2021 Mar 26, In Mozambique insurgents attacked a convoy of civilians as they attempted to flee a hotel in Palma, killing several people and injuring dozens of others. The dead included Adrian Nel of South Africa and six others, who were in a convoy of vehicles that was apparently ambushed.
(NY Times, 3/27/21)(BBC, 3/29/21)
2021 Mar 27, In Mozambique an attack by hundreds of militants trapped nearly 200 people, including foreign workers, in a hotel in Palma, site of a major gas project. A three-day siege has left at least several people dead and hundreds of other civilians unaccounted for. Throughout the three-day siege, insurgents set government buildings ablaze and detonated explosives at three banks and the health clinic in town.
(NY Times, 3/27/21)
2021 Mar 28, In Mozambique rebels fought the Mozambican army for the fifth straight day for control of the strategic northern town of Palma, as reports came in that dozens of civilians have been killed and bodies were littering the streets.
(AP, 3/28/21)
2021 Mar 31, In northern Mozambique hundreds of militants stormed Palma, targeting shops, banks and a military barracks. Dozens of people were reported dead following the attack.
(BBC, 3/31/21)
2021 Apr 5, Mozambique's military said it has regained full control of the coastal town of Palma, more than a week after it was raided by militant Islamists.
(AP, 4/5/21)
2021 Apr 13, The UN World Food Program said almost one million people are facing severe hunger in northern Mozambique where hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee a jihadist insurgency.
(AP, 4/13/21)
2021 Apr 26, The French energy firm Total announced hat it has halted all operations on its $20 billion investment in a liquified natural gas project in northern Mozambique as a result of the extremist rebel insurgency there..
(AP, 4/26/21)
2021 Aug 6, It was reported that a 1,000-strong Rwandan force has hit the ground running since its deployment in Mozambique to fight poor insurgents who have carried out devastating attacks in the far north of the country. There is broad agreement that the uprising was begun by young people without jobs protesting about growing poverty and inequality, as well as the lack of any gains from mineral resources including rubies and gas.
(BBC, 8/6/21)
2021 Aug 8, The Rwanda Defence Force tweeted that the port city of Mocímboa da Praia , a major stronghold of the insurgency for more than two years has been captured by Rwandan and Mozambican security forces.
(BBC, 8/8/21)
2021 Sep 13, In Mozambique Révocat Karemangingo, a prominent member of the Rwandan refugee community, was shot dead. He had told police there was a plot to kill him.
(Reuters, 9/14/21)
2021 Oct 4, Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi urged Islamist militants in its far north to surrender, saying they had nowhere to run, after allied Rwandan, Mozambican and southern African forces pushed them out of territory they had been occupying.
(Reuters, 10/4/21)
2021 Oct 5, The UN said government forces have rescued abducted children who were forcefully recruited by the Al-Shabab jihadist group in northern Mozambique.
(Reuters, 10/5/21)
2021 Oct 11, In Mozambique Mariano Nyongo, the leader of Renamo military junta, was killed early this morning in fighting between the Defence and Security Forces (FDS) and the insurgents in Sofala province.
(Reuters, 10/11/21)
2021 Nov 30, The Mozambican government said that it had detected two cases of Omicron variant in the country.
(Reuters, 11/30/21)
2021 Dec, Elon Musk's Tesla company signed an agreement with Australia's Syrah Resources, which operates one of the world’s largest graphite mines in Mozambique. Tesla will buy the material from the company's processing plant in Vidalia, Louisiana, which sources graphite from its mine in Balama, Mozambique.
(AP, 1/16/22)
2022 Jan 3, It was reported that Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi and his wife Isaura have tested positive for COVID-19 and are isolating.
(Reuters, 1/3/22)
2022 Jan 12, Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries agreed at a summit to extend their troop deployment in Mozambique to help the government fight an Islamic State-linked insurgency.
(Reuters, 1/12/22)
2022 Jan 25, Mozambique's National Institute for Management and Disaster Risk Reduction said that eight people had died in the prior 24 hours due to tropical storm Ana. The death toll soon rose to 20.
(Reuters, 1/26/22)(AP, 1/26/22)(Reuters, 1/28/22)
2022 Mar 3, Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi fired PM Carlos Agostinho do Rosário, in what appeared to be a major cabinet reshuffle following the sacking of six ministers a day earlier.
(Reuters, 3/3/22)
2022 Mar 11, Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi said at least seven people died as Tropical Cyclone Gombe made early morning landfall packing wind speeds exceeding 200 kmh (125 mph) that pummeled north and central areas of the country. The death toll soon rose to 53.
(Reuters, 3/11/22)(Reuters, 3/17/22)
2022 Mar 18, The WHO said almost 70,000 vaccinators will go door-to-door in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, to give all children under 5 the oral polio vaccine in a $15.7 million campaign funded by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in a bid to prevent a renewed spread of polio.
(Reuters, 3/18/22)
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(SFC, 10/13/97, p.A15)
~900AD The east coast of Africa was impacted by trade and Arab, Persian and Indian traders mixed with the indigenous Bantu. Many of the coastal Bantu adopted Islam and the Arabic word Swahili, meaning “people of the shore," to describe themselves. By this time they had reached as far south as Sofala in Mozambique.
(ATC, p.142) (Enc. of Africa, 1976, p.169)
1498 Mar 2, Vasco da Gama's fleet visited Mozambique Island.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1506 Mozambique, Africa, was colonized by the Portuguese.
(TL-MB, p.9)
1794 Dec 27, The Portuguese slave ship Sao Jose--Paquete de Africa sank off the coast of South Africa’s Cape Town. Some 400-500 African slaves from Mozambique were on board the vessel bound for Brazil. About half of them perished. Wreckage of the ship was found in 2015.
(http://tinyurl.com/q9xyg73)(AP, 6/2/15)
1917 Nov, The East African Campaign, a series of battles and guerrilla actions, which started in German East Africa (later Tanzania) and spread to portions of Mozambique, Northern Rhodesia, British East Africa, Uganda and the Belgian Congo, all but ended when the Germans entered Portuguese East Africa (later Mozambique) and continued the campaign living off Portuguese supplies.
(http://tinyurl.com/lcfyagk)(Econ, 2/4/17, p.40)
1951 Jun 11, Mozambique became an oversea province of Portugal.
(SC, 6/11/02)
1962-1975 A 13 year effort finally succeeded in eliminating the Portuguese colonists.
(WSJ, 3/21/96, p.A-11)
1964-1974 Mozambique suffered horribly in its war of independence.
(Economist, 4/4/20, p.35)
1974 The Portuguese secret police (PIDE) ruled with an iron hand from its headquarters in the Villa Algarve in Maputo.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A10)
1975 Jun 25, Mozambique became an independent state (twice the size of California), ending nearly five centuries of Portuguese rule and a long civil war began that lasted to 1992. The first government embraced Marxism soon after taking power. 600,000 Portuguese farmers abandoned their farms and the agricultural industry was devastated. Frelimo (the Mozambican Liberation Front) took power in opposition to Renamo (the Mozambique National Resistance), which was supported by white-led governments in Rhodesia and South Africa. The UN Children’s Education Fund estimated that at least 850 children were kidnapped by guerillas of Renamo. Some were forced to fight but most were put to work as cooks and cleaners.
(WSJ, 3/21/96, p.A-11)(SFC, 6/25/96, p.A8)(AP internet 6/25/97)(SFC, 10/13/97, p.A12)
1976 Mar 3, Mozambique closed its border with Rhodesia (Zimbabwe).
(http://tinyurl.com/3c8j7u)
1977-1989 Frelimo ruled Mozambique with a firm Marxist orientation.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A10)
1977-1992 Civil war raged in Mozambique over this period.
(Econ, 7/16/16, p.38)
1980 Apr 1, The southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) was established by 9 countries with the Lusaka declaration (Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe). The main aim was coordinating development projects in order to lessen economic dependence on apartheid South Africa. On August 17, 1992, it was transformed into the Southern African Development Community (SADC). By 2008 it included 15 members.
(www.sadc.int/index/browse/page/52)
1980-1992 The Renamo guerrilla movement, led by Afonso Dhlakama, waged rebellion against the Freelimo government. It was a peasant terrorist army created in the late 70s by Rhodesia’s white minority regime and later financed by South Africa’s white apartheid government.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A10,12)
1982 Aug 17, Ruth First, an exiled anti-apartheid activist, was killed in Mozambique from a letter bomb sent by agents of the Nationalist South African government. In 1997 her daughter, Gillian Slovo, published "Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country."
(SFEC, 5/11/97, BR p.5)(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.M6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_First)
1984 Mar 16, Mozambique and South Africa signed a pact banning support for one another’s internal foes.
(Historynet, 3/16/98)
1984 In Mozambique the 415-mile Sena Railway line was damaged and mined by RENAMO insurgents. After it was sabotaged, not one train used it for more than 20 years.
(AFP, 10/17/06)
1986 Oct 19, Mozambique Pres. Samora Machel was killed in a plane crash as he returned from a conference in Zambia. He had aided Nelson Mandela’s ANC party in fighting apartheid. 34 others also died in the crash.
(SFC, 8/20/96, p.A14)(www.cidob.org/bios/castellano/lideres/c-016.htm)(AP, 10/19/06)
1986 Nov 6, FRELIMO designated Joaquim Chissano as president of Mozambique.
(www.cidob.org/bios/castellano/lideres/c-016.htm)
1986 Mozambique agreed to liberalize its economy in order to attract foreign companies.
(WSJ, 2/14/00, p.B13C)
1986-1994 Mario Machungo served as the prime minister. He later became the chairman of the Int'l. Bank of Mozambique.
(WSJ, 2/14/00, p.B13C)
1989 Frelimo dropped its socialist ideas in favor of a free-market economy.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A12)
1992 Oct 4, In Mozambique a peace accord ended 17 years of civil war during which some 600,000 people were killed.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_General_Peace_Accords)(WSJ, 2/14/00, p.B13C)
1994 In the first multi-party elections, overseen by 7,000 UN troops, voters chose Joaquim Alberto Chissano, head of Frelima, the formerly Marxist ruling party, as president over Afonso Dhlakama of Renamo. Frelimo was based in the southern port city of Maputo, while Renamo was based in the northern city of Beira.
(WSJ, 3/21/96, p.A-11)(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A10)
1995 The Christian Council of Mozambique launched a project to bring peace and reconciliation to the country and to disarm thousands of former combatants. The program paid artists to turn retrieved weapons into sculptures.
(SFC, 11/9/12, p.A7)
1995 Commonwealth members admitted Mozambique and Cameroon.
(Econ, 11/24/07, p.64)
1996 Aug 24, Crops in the fertile districts of Manica were severely damaged by an invasion of red locusts.
(SFC, 8/24/96, p.A8)
1998 South African senior foreign ministry official Robert McBride was arrested on suspicion of gun running in neighboring Mozambique and held for six months before being released.
(AFP, 9/9/11)
1999 Mar 10, In Mozambique officials reported 12 deaths due to flooding and some 200,000 people stranded following 3 months of rain.
(SFC, 3/11/99, p.A11)
1999 Jul 3, It was reported that the government had lifted a ban on hunting elephants as a sport due to growing numbers.
(SFC, 7/3/99, p.A5)
1999 Dec 22, Pres. Joaquim Chissano was declared the winner of elections that were held earlier in the month. He won 52% as opposed to 48% for Afonso Dhlakama of the Mozambique Resistance Movement, known as Renamo. In parliament Frelimo won 133 seats vs. 117 for Renamo.
(SFC, 12/23/99, p.C7)
1999 Creditors began canceling over $4 billion worth of debt. Debt service of over $100 million per year had flowed to creditors in wealthy countries.
(WSJ, 3/15/00, p.A1)
2000 Feb 22, Cyclone Eline hit Mozambique and 3 people were electrocuted in Beira from fallen power cables. Earlier torrential rains killed 67 people and displaced some 211,000.
(SFC, 2/22/00, p.A10)(SFC, 2/23/00, p.A11)
2000 Feb 26, Heavy rains continued to ravage South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. 33 people were reported dead in the northern province of South Africa and 29 dead in Zimbabwe.
(SFEC, 2/27/00, p.A22)
2000 Feb 28, In Mozambique officials feared that thousands may have died in the last 3 weeks of flooding.
(WSJ, 2/29/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 5, In Mozambique some 600 US troops arrived to help deliver food and medical supplies where flooding left an estimated 1 million people homeless.
(SFC, 3/6/00, p.A10)
2000 Mar 8, In Mozambique recent flooding began to wash old civil war land mines to the surface. An estimated 400,000 to 5 million mines were still present.
(SFC, 3/9/00, p.A10)
2000 Mar 12, In Mozambique the death toll from flooding reached 492 and urgent shipments of seeds were being organized.
(SFC, 3/13/00, p.A11)
2000 Mar 25, It was reported that the Messalo river burst its banks after a week of rain. The Limpopo was expected to flood again and the city of Chokwe was again threatened.
(SFC, 3/24/00, p.A8)
2000 Nov 9, Mozambique police killed 10 opposition demonstrators in Maputo. In Montepuez Renamo opposition supporters stormed a prison and freed 93 inmates. 7 police officers and 18 civilians died in election protests.
(SFC, 11/10/00, p.D2)(SFC, 11/24/00, p.D4)
2000 Nov 20, In Mozambique Carlos Cardoso, founder and editor of the Metical newspaper, was murdered while driving in Maputo. He had been investigating a 1996 theft of $14 million from the Commercial Bank of Mozambique. In 2003 six men were convicted of the murder. Businessman Vicente Ramaya was later convicted of ordering the murder and sentenced to 23 years in prison. In 2013 a judge signed papers granting Ramaya's release because of good behavior.
(AP, 1/31/03)(AP, 1/22/13)
2000 Nov 23, Some 75-83 inmates at the prison in Montepuez, arrested for the Nov 9 protests, were reported dead from either poisoning or suffocation.
(SFC, 11/24/00, p.D4)
2001 Jan, Flooding left at least 4 people dead and thousands homeless.
(WSJ, 1/29/00, p.A1)
2001 Feb 28, Flooding continued in central Mozambique as the death toll rose to 52. 81,000 were made homeless since the beginning of the year.
(SFC, 3/1/01, p.A10)(SFC, 3/2/01, p.A16)
2001 Mar 15, It was reported that 70% of the nation’s 17 million people lived on less than 40 cents per day.
(WSJ, 3/15/00, p.A1)
2002 May 25, In Tenga, Mozambique, a passenger and freight train collided and 195 people were killed.
(SSFC, 5/26/2, p.A14)(SFC, 5/27/02, p.A7)(AP, 5/25/07)
2002 Jul 1, In Mozambique health officials reported that at least 62 people have died of cholera in the northern province of Cabo Delgado since the latest outbreak of the disease in February.
(AP, 7/1/02)
2002 Nov 19, In Mozambique Manuel dos Santos Fernandes told Judge Augusto Paulino that he and two of his fellow accused had killed top investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso in return for a promise of $20,000 from President Joaquim Chissano's son Nhimpine.
(AP, 11/20/02)
2003 Jan 17, Massive flooding caused by Cyclone Delfina ravaged parts of Malawi and Mozambique, washing away homes and crops, submerging roads and bridges, and cutting off electricity in the impoverished nations.
(AP, 1/17/03)
2003 Jan 19, In western Mozambique it was reported that 9 people had died of hunger in a village and some 175,000 people in the area are at risk of starvation.
(AP, 1/19/03)
2003 Feb 5, Heavy rains in northern Mozambique caused flooding that left about 100,000 families homeless, swept away thousands of acres of crops and severely damaged roads and bridges.
(AP, 2/6/03)
2004 Jul 15, The Gates Foundation announced a $44.7 million award at the AIDS Conference in Bangkok to a consortium of TB and AIDS researchers. The 2 diseases were often linked. A UN report cited 7 countries as the hardest hit by the AIDS pandemic: Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Lesotho, Zambia, Malawi, the Central African Republic and Mozambique.
(WSJ, 7/15/04, p.B1)(SFC, 7/16/04, p.A6)
2004 Dec 1, Mozambique held elections. Armando Guebuza, Pres. Chissano’s hand-picked successor, won.
(SFC, 12/4/04, p.A3)(Econ, 2/5/05, p.48)
2005 Jan 15, Visiting Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown revealed that Britain has decided to cancel Mozambique's total debt to it of 150 million dollars (114 million euros) to help the southern African country combat poverty. He said: "We've also agreed to pay 10 percent of Mozambique's multilateral debt."
(AP, 1/15/05)
2005 Feb 2, Armando Guebuza was sworn in as president of Mozambique.
(Econ, 2/5/05, p.48)(www.voanews.com/english/2005-02-02-voa28.cfm)
2005 Aug 23, UN officials called on African ministers meeting in Mozambique to declare TB and emergency in the area.
(WSJ, 8/24/05, p.A1)
2005 Aug 25, In Mozambique regional health ministers unanimously agreed to declare tuberculosis an African emergency.
(AP, 8/26/05)
2005 Nov 15, Data was published indicating that Mosquitrix, an experimental vaccine against malaria given to children in Mozambique in 2003, had cut clinical cases by 35%. The vaccine was developed GlaxoSmithKline of Belgium.
(Econ, 11/19/05, p.85)
2005 Nov 24, The UN food agency said the United States has thrown a lifeline to six southern African countries, donating food aid valued at $45 million. The food will be distributed across Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Dec, In Mozambique Jose Pacheco under President Armando Guebuza, told reporters that an audit of the ministry had revealed an 8.8 million US dollar deficit that could not be accounted for. Pacheco had just succeeded Almerino Manhenje as the interior minister.
(AFP, 9/23/08)
2006 Feb 23, A powerful earthquake sent thousands of panicking people fleeing from swaying buildings in Mozambique and Zimbabwe, and killed at least two people.
(AP, 2/23/06)
2006 Apr 10, In Maputo, Mozambique, African leaders launched a campaign to get every child in school by 2015, and Britain responded by pledging $15 billion in education aid to developing countries over the next decade.
(AP, 4/10/06)
2006 Aug 16, The presidents of South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe gathered for the official opening the new Giriyondo border post linking South Africa and Mozambique. This was another step in the creation of the 14,000 square mile Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Park, which would span the 3 countries.
(SFC, 8/17/06, p.A2)
2006 Oct 17, The US State Department said that the last landmines and unexploded ordnance blocking Mozambique's vital Sena Railway line have been removed, thanks largely to some $13 million (€10 million) in US aid. The mine action assistance was launched in 2002. Under the US Humanitarian Mine Action Program approximately 46 million dollars have been given in aid to Mozambique since 1993.
(AFP, 10/17/06)
2006 Nov 9, In Mozambique a regional governor said more than 4,500 foreigners, mostly from Tanzania, have been expelled for clandestinely mining gold close to its northern border with Tanzania.
(AP, 11/9/06)
2006 Nov 10, A report launched by the UN Human Development Program (UNDP) highlighted how more than 2.6 billion people do not have access to proper sanitation and how dirty water claims more lives than AIDS or conflicts. According to the UN 78% of Mozambique's 17 million people earn less than two dollars a day and more than 20,000 children die every year from water-borne diseases.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2006 Dec 20, The parliament in Mozambique approved a new law to pave the way for elections at local and national level despite a boycott of the vote by the main opposition party.
(AFP, 12/20/06)
2007 Jan 19, Mozambique officials said 4 people have died, hundreds of homes destroyed and more than 6,000 affected by torrential rains over the last two days.
(AP, 1/19/07)
2007 Jan 23, Mozambique’s National Institute for Disaster Management said torrential rains in central Mozambique had claimed five lives and rendered more than 3,500 homeless since the weekend.
(AFP, 1/23/07)
2007 Feb 7, The Mozambique government said floods have killed 29 people and wrecked thousands of homes after torrential rain and hurricanes swept through the country in the past two weeks.
(AP, 2/7/07)
2007 Feb 8, China’s President Hu Jintao arrived in Mozambique on the penultimate stop in his 8-nation African tour.
(AFP, 2/8/07)
2007 Feb 9, An official said flooding in central Mozambique threatened some 285,000 people.
(AFP, 2/9/07)
2007 Feb 12, Mozambique officials said soldiers and relief workers using helicopters and canoes have evacuated some 60,000 people from the flooded Zambezi River Valley in central Mozambique, where more than 100,000 others are at risk.
(AP, 2/12/07)
2007 Feb 22, In Mozambique roofs were blown off, trees uprooted and power lines cut by the force of a tropical cyclone which slammed into coastal regions. The storm killed four people and injured at least 70 in the resort town of Vilanculos, where thousands of homes were destroyed along with the hospital and power grid.
(AFP, 2/22/07)(Reuters, 2/23/07)
2007 Feb 25, Heavy rains from a cyclone sparked more flooding in Mozambique, worsening a humanitarian crisis that has already killed 45 people and forced 140,000 from their homes.
(Reuters, 2/25/07)
2007 Mar 3, Officials said Mozambican marines rescued more than 1,700 people, including 900 children, from flooding in central Mozambique.
(AP, 3/3/07)
2007 Mar 22, In Mozambique an explosion at a weapons depot in a densely populated neighborhood of Maputo killed at least 96 people and left more than 400 injured, many of them children.
(AP, 3/23/07)
2007 Jun 26, A Mozambican army vehicle carrying recruits overturned, killing 12 people and injuring 24.
(AP, 6/27/07)
2007 Jun 27, In Maputo US first lady Laura Bush announced $507 million in assistance would be approved for Mozambique to build roads and boost its battle with malaria, which kills about 150 Mozambicans each day.
(AP, 6/27/07)
2007 Jul 4, Mozambique's President Armando Guebuza sought to expand trade ties with Tanzania to boost development in the two impoverished African nations.
(AFP, 7/4/07)
2007 Jul 13, The main US development fund signed a $506.9 million aid agreement with Mozambique to promote economic growth and reduce poverty.
(Reuters, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 31, In Mozambique 5 soldiers were killed when an army truck carrying munitions that were about to be destroyed exploded near the country's main airport.
(AP, 7/31/07)
2007 Aug 5, Mozambique state radio said authorities had seized thousands of boxes of counterfeit toothpaste that they fear may contain a potentially deadly chemical.
(AP, 8/6/07)
2007 Aug 9, A disaster management agency said more than 520,000 people need urgent food aid in Mozambique while 600,000 face famine between now and April next year.
(AP, 8/9/07)
2007 Aug 15, Maputo's interior ministry said South Africa has intensified the repatriation of Mozambican illegal immigrants, going from 400 to a weekly average of more than 600.
(AFP, 8/15/07)
2007 Aug 24, Mozambique’s health minister said large amounts of drugs, which have been imported into Mozambique with the aid of the international community, end up being sold on the black market at home and abroad.
(AFP, 8/24/07)
2007 Sep 13, In Mozambique a non-governmental organization working with the disabled said at least 440 sites are still heavily infested by landmines near residential districts in 3 provinces.
(AP, 9/13/07)
2007 Sep 17, The Mozambican government authorized soldiers to gun down wild animals who are seen as a threat to human beings after a new report highlighted an increase in the number of deadly attacks.
(AFP, 9/17/07)
2007 Oct 22, Mozambique's former President Joaquim Chissano, who brought peace and democracy to his country, won the first Mo Ibrahim Prize for achievement in African leadership.
(AP, 10/22/07)
2007 Oct 26, The Mozambican government set itself a new five-year target to remove all the landmines that still litter the country, 15 years after its long-running civil war.
(AFP, 10/26/07)
2007 Nov 27, Mozambique formally took over from Portugal the control of Cahora Bassa hydroelectric dam, Africa's second most important after that of Aswan in Egypt.
(AFP, 11/27/07)
2007 Nov 30, India's Tata Steel signed a joint venture with Australia's Riversdale Mining to develop a hard coking and thermal coal project in Mozambique.
(AP, 11/30/07)
2008 Jan 7, The National Institute of Disaster Management (INGC) said 6 people have died and more than 20,000 others have been displaced by Mozambique's rising waters, the worst since the deadly flooding of 2000 to 2001.
(AFP, 1/7/08)
2008 Jan 13, A UN humanitarian agency said floods in Mozambique have killed about 50 people and displaced tens of thousands.
(AP, 1/13/08)
2008 Jan 27, Mozambique said it would forcibly evacuate 10,000 people who have defied government calls to leave areas at risk of flooding along the Zambezi valley in the country's central regions.
(Reuters, 1/27/08)
2008 Jan 30, Mozambique’s interior ministry said police intercepted a lorry carrying 39 youngsters as they were about to be smuggled across the border into Zimbabwe by suspected child traffickers. Rights groups warned late last year that trafficking of Mozambican children across to neighboring countries, mostly South Africa, has risen tenfold in the last two years.
(AFP, 1/30/08)
2008 Feb 5, In Mozambique one person was killed and 63 were wounded in Maputo when police opened fire in a bid to break up violent protests against increases in bus fares. The local council of Tete said an outbreak of diarrhea in the flood-hit city has claimed the lives of 64 people since early January.
(AP, 2/5/08)(AFP, 2/5/08)
2008 Feb 6, The Mozambican government announced that it was scrapping a planned increase in bus fares as the death toll from riots sparked by the price hikes rose to three.
(AFP, 2/6/08)
2008 Mar 10, Tropical cyclone Jokwe battered parts of Mozambique for a third day. At least 16 people were killed with thousands of homes destroyed in northern Nampula province.
(Reuters, 3/10/08)(AFP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, State media said Mozambique's President Armando Guebuza has sacked three senior members of his government, including his foreign minister.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 17, The Mozambican government made an urgent appeal to the UN World Food Program to help more than 60,000 people left destitute when cyclone Jokwe hit northern and central parts of the country.
(AFP, 3/17/08)
2008 Mar 20, Mozambican President Armando Guebuza dismissed the head of the armed forces and his deputy, barely a week after firing three senior ministers.
(AFP, 3/21/08)
2008 Apr 13, The winners of this year’s Goldman Awards were reported to be: Feliciano dos Santos (43) of Mozambique, the director of Estamos, an environmental group promoting sanitation, sustainable development and reforestation; Marina Rikhvanova (46), founder of Baikal Environmental Wave, which forced the rerouting of an oil pipeline in the Baikal basin; Pablo Fajardo (35) and Luis Yanza (48) of Ecuador, co-founders of the Amazon Defense Front, which accused Texaco (now Chevron) of dumping oil and wastewater into local streams; Rosa Hilda Ramos (63) of Puerto Rico, head of a movement to protect the Las Cicharillas Marsh; Ignace Schops (43) of Belgium, head of a movement to establish Belgium’s 1st and only national park; Jesus Leon (42) of Mexico, co-founder of the Center for Integral Small Farmer Development of the Mixtec (CEDICAM).
(SSFC, 4/13/08, p.A4)
2008 Apr 18, South Africa's main transport union thwarted the delivery of a controversial shipment of Chinese arms destined for Zimbabwe, saying its workers would not offload the cargo. The Chinese ship left the South African harbor and headed for neighboring Mozambique. Angola and Mozambique said the ship is not welcome. China defended the cargo against international criticism.
(AFP, 4/18/08)(AP, 4/19/08)(AFP, 4/22/08)(SFC, 4/23/08, p.A2)
2008 Apr 29, Human rights watchdog Amnesty International accused Mozambique police of killing and torturing people with impunity as the country struggles to deal with growing crime.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2008 May 14, The annual meeting of the African Development Bank (AfDB) opened in Mozambique with the organization’s head warning that rising growth rates are having little impact on poverty levels.
(AFP, 5/14/08)
2008 May 22, The South African army mobilized in support of embattled police trying to quell a wave of violence against immigrants that has claimed 42 lives and displaced 16,000. More than 10,000 Mozambicans have fled home from South Africa to escape the xenophobic attacks.
(AP, 5/22/08)
2008 Sep 2, In Mozambique 2 days of fires killed at least 32 people and injured hundreds more in blazes which devoured large swathes of arable land. The fires also displaced thousands and ravaged around 16,000 hectares (40,000 acres) in the three central provinces of Manica, Sofala and Zambezia.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 10, Officials said at least 89 people have died in wildfires sweeping through Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland.
(AP, 9/10/08)
2008 Sep 22, Mozambique's former interior minister Almerino Manhenje was arrested in connection with the disappearance of millions of dollars during his time in office. He served as home affairs minister in the Joaquim Chissano administration between 1996 and 2005.
(AFP, 9/23/08)
2008 Oct 16, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrived in Mozambique to launch a project to make anti-AIDS drugs in the southern African country.
(AP, 10/17/08)
2008 Nov 5, In Mozambique a medical officer said at least 50 people have died of cholera and more than 100 have been taken to hospital since the disease broke out last week in northern Manica province.
(AFP, 11/5/08)
2008 China became Mozambique's second-largest investor after neighboring South Africa, pouring 76.8 million dollars (58.6 million euros) into the country.
(AFP, 12/26/10)
2009 Jan 12, Mozambique authorities said torrential rains have killed 19 people in the past few days and that worse flooding may lie ahead.
(AP, 1/12/09)
2009 Mar 15, In northern Mozambique a mob angered by false rumors that health workers were spreading cholera killed a Red Cross volunteer, two health workers and a policeman.
(AP, 3/17/09)
2009 Mar 18, Mozambique’s interior ministry said 12 prisoners arrested during a riot over a cholera epidemic have died in their cell in unclear circumstances. They were among 29 people arrested when riots broke out last month when Red Cross volunteers were blamed for causing a cholera epidemic plaguing the country.
(AFP, 3/18/09)
2009 Mar 27, Southern African countries (Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia) have been hit by the worst floods in years, killing more than 100 people and displacing thousands, as a tropical storm threatened to bring more pain.
(AFP, 3/28/09)
2009 Apr 6, In Zambia western nations and lending agencies meeting in Lusaka agreed a financing package of more than $1 billion to improve infrastructure in southern and central Africa at an investment conference meant to expand transport links and trade. Britain said it would separately provide 100 million pounds ($149.2 million) to transform the region's infrastructure to increase trade and mitigate the effects of the global financial crisis. New projects will link businesses in 8 African countries: Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Malawi, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa.
(AP, 4/6/09)
2009 Jun 12, Mozambican state media reported that a court has sentenced Alexandre Balate to 22 years in jail for killing a suspect. Balate, the former head of the search and seizure unit, was found guilty of the 2007 murder of Abranches Penicelo, who was allegedly abducted by a group of police officers, burnt alive and shot. Amnesty International had drawn global attention to Penicelo's murder. Last year the group released a report accusing the national police of "killing and torturing people with near total impunity."
(AFP, 6/12/09)
2009 Aug 1, Mozambique’s Pres. Armando Guebuza inaugurated an 80-million-euro (113-million-dollar) bridge over the Zambezi River, a major link for a country long divided between north and south. Work on the bridge had begun in 1977.
(AFP, 8/2/09)
2009 Aug 18, In Mozambique an overcrowded ferry with 50 people went down off the coast in a northern province. 17 people were feared drowned.
(AP, 8/19/09)
2009 Aug 19, Brazilian prosecutors said Father Clodoveo Piazza, an Italian priest who ran an award-winning shelter for homeless children in Brazil, has been charged with sexually abusing boys for years and allowing visiting foreigners to exploit the children. Piazza, now working as a missionary in Mozambique, was charged along with another former director of the nonprofit group Fraternal Help Organization, a private group based in Salvador.
(AP, 8/20/09)
2009 Aug 28, In Mozambique talks aimed at determining who should lead Madagascar in a new interim government ended in failure with the ousted president and the man who replaced him in a military coup both claiming the right to do so. The parties set a deadline of Sept. 4 to arrive at a compromise.
(AP, 8/28/09)
2009 Oct 28, Mozambique held elections. President Armando Guebuza was expected to retain power and move to attract more foreign investors. On Nov 2 President Armando Guebuza was declared the "landslide" winner by two election monitoring groups. Frelimo, the ruling party since independence in 1975, had received 71% of the vote with 89% of polling stations reporting. On Nov 11 election officials said President Armando Guebuza won the landslide re-election with 75% of the vote. On Nov 17 the main opposition Renamo party said the ruling party stuffed ballot boxes and expelled opposition monitors from polling stations to help it win the presidential election.
(Reuters, 10/28/09)(AFP, 11/2/09)(AFP, 11/11/09)(AP, 11/17/09)
2009 Nov 3, Mozambique's main opposition party claimed that polls that gave a landslide victory to the southern African country's ruling party were rigged.
(AFP, 11/3/09)
2009 Nov 5, Zimbabwe's rival leaders met with Mozambican leader Armando Guebuza, the head of a regional security body, ahead of an emergency summit aimed at hauling a fragile power-sharing deal out of a three-week impasse. The summit was set to open with leaders from the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Swaziland and Zambia.
(AP, 11/5/09)
2009 Nov 15, Amnesty Int’l. issued the report, "I Can't Believe in Justice Anymore." It said at least 46 people had been unlawfully killed by police in Mozambique since 2006. The report offered five detailed case studies, including that of dancer and choreographer Augusto Cuvilas, who had called police to his home because he feared he was being robbed, only to end up being killed by the officers from whom he had sought help.
(AP, 11/16/09)
2009 Nov 16, In Mozambique a trail opened for former Transport Minister Antonio Munguambe and four former officials of a company that runs the country's airports. They were accused of stealing nearly $2 million from the company. It was the biggest corruption case to go to court in Mozambique since independence in 1975.
(AP, 11/17/09)
2009 Nov 18, In Mozambique testimony in the highest-level corruption trial in the country’s history implicated ruling party Frelimo as a beneficiary of embezzled funds. Former Mozambican airports company finance director Antenor Pereira, a defendant in the trial, testified that Frelimo had received some of the $1.7 million allegedly stolen from the company.
(AFP, 11/19/09)
2010 Jan 11, Riversdale, an Australian mining firm, said the Mozambican government has given it the green light to build an 800-million-dollar coal mine in the country's northwest. Riversdale has predicted that the Benga project will produce some of the lowest-cost coking coal in the world.
(AFP, 1/11/10)
2010 Jan 14, Key southern African leaders gathered in the Mozambican capital Maputo for a special summit on the political crises in Zimbabwe and Madagascar. Leaders called for a return to dialogue in the ongoing political crisis in Madagascar. A medical aid group said Zimbabweans crossing illegally into neighboring South Africa after holidays at home are being raped and robbed by gangs on both sides of the border.
(AFP, 1/14/10)(AP, 1/14/10)
2010 Feb 16, Mozambique state media reported that a mob attacked health workers in a town in the northern town of Macoroja, killing one and injuring three others, after accusing them of spreading cholera.
(AFP, 2/17/10)
2010 Feb 18, In Mozambique 7 people died in a riot in the district of Gurue sparked by false rumors that health workers were spreading cholera.
(AP, 2/19/10)
2010 Feb 25, Mozambique's health minister, Leonardo Chavane, said 36 people have died this year from a cholera outbreak in the northern and central parts of the southern African country. he said the situation is worrying because new cases are being reported daily and are complicated by rumors that health staff are spreading cholera rather than fighting it.
(AP, 2/25/10)
2010 Feb 26, Mozambique state media said 2 young men accused of having sex with a goat in central Mozambique are facing criminal charges, and the goat's owner is demanding they make traditional wedding arrangements.
(AFP, 2/26/10)
2010 Feb 27, Mozambique's former transport minister was sentenced to 20 years in prison for stealing state funds, the highest-level corruption conviction ever in the southern African country. Antonio Munguambe, transport and communications minister from 2005 to 2008, was found guilty of acting as an accomplice in the embezzlement of 1.7 million dollars (1.25 million euros) from national airport company Airports of Mozambique.
(AFP, 2/27/10)
2010 Mar 13, Mozambique's health ministry spokesman said the country's cholera outbreak has now killed 42 people in the northern and central parts of the southern African country.
(AP, 3/13/10)
2010 Mar 24, Mozambican and donor officials say they have resolved questions over corruption and democracy that led to an aid freeze.
(AP, 3/24/10)
2010 Mar 26, Mozambican police said they have arrested 7 people suspected of trafficking women to neighboring South Africa to work as prostitutes. The men were arrested last week through a police sting operation. The women were on sale for about $670 each.
(AP, 3/26/10)
2010 May 24, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva launched TV Brasil, a new Portuguese-language network based in Mozambique's capital Maputo and tasked with "saying good things" about Brazil. From Maputo, the new channel will be broadcast to more than 40 countries, mostly in Africa and Latin America.
(AFP, 5/24/10)
2010 May 31, At least nine people died and 40 were missing and feared dead after a boat sank off the coast of northern Mozambique. All of those aboard the ship were Somali.
(AP, 6/9/10)
2010 Jun 28, South African media said Mozambicans and Thais children (9-16) were discovered a week earlier by South African border police during an inspection at the Komatipoort crossing between South Africa and Mozambique.
(AFP, 6/29/10)
2010 Jun, The US Treasury Department sanctioned three Mozambican businesses allegedly connected to Mohamed Bachir Suleman, a Mozambique man, whose name was added by the Obama administration to a list of international drug kingpins. In Dec, 2010, newly released WikiLeaks documents refered to Suleman often, saying he "uses his FRELIMO party connections, as well as his shopping mall, supermarkets, and hotels to import narcotics and launder money without official scrutiny."
(AP, 12/10/10)
2010 Jul 8, Mozambique’s transport minister said in a report that his country will overcome a shipping bottleneck to export its vast coal deposits by finding ways for barges to navigate the Zambezi River.
(AFP, 7/8/10)
2010 Aug 17, American oil company Anadarko said it has discovered offshore oil deposits in northern Mozambique, but it is unclear if the find will prove commercially viable.
(AFP, 8/17/10)
2010 Sep 1, Mozambique's state utility company implemented a 13.4 percent rate increase, while the state water supplier has also raised prices in and around the capital. Police opened fire on stone-throwing mobs who were protesting rising prices. 6 people were killed and 288 wounded. Another person died the next day. The UN noted that international food prices have risen to their highest in two years, a level that could see unrest spread.
(AP, 9/1/10)(AFP, 9/2/10)
2010 Sep 3, Police in Mozambique fired rubber bullets and live ammunition to quell more demonstrations against rising food prices. The death toll from the unrest soon climbed to 13 with more than 440 injured. The government said the economy has lost more than $3 million because of the deadly riots, as state media reported new protests in two other towns.
(AFP, 9/3/10)(AFP, 9/6/10)
2010 Sep 3, In Accra, Ghana, Standard Bank Africa announced at an agricultural forum a 100 million dollar scheme to reach some 750,000 small scale farmers in Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda in a bid to boost output.
(AFP, 9/4/10)
2010 Sep 5, Mozambican authorities said five fishing boats have capsized in a storm off the country's central coast, killing at least 15 fishermen.
(AP, 9/5/10)
2010 Sep 6, Mozambique state radio reported that nine people have been arrested over the last 24 hours, accused of incitement for sending cell phone messages calling for protests. The radio report said 3 of the 9 were arrested in Nampula for trying to spread the protests to that northern province.
(AP, 9/6/10)
2010 Sep 7, Mozambique Planning Minister Aiuba Cuereneia said that the 20 percent increase in the government-set price of bread — which had followed a year of steady increases on the staple in this impoverished country — that went into effect a day earlier would be reversed. He said an increase in the price of water also would be reversed, but that higher electricity tariffs were being maintained.
(AP, 9/7/10)
2010 Sep 28, An Australian mining company said it has discovered deposits in Mozambique of rare minerals with a variety of industrial uses. The minerals found included dysprosium, used to make laser materials and in components of nuclear reactors.
(AP, 9/29/10)
2010 Oct 8, In Mozambique a settling pond breached its wall at the Irish mining firm Kenmare Resources’ Moma titanium and zircon mine in the northern province of Nampula, flooding the area with a mixture of water, sand and clay. A four-year-old girl was missing after the dam burst, flooding an area housing 3,000 families.
(AFP, 10/11/10)
2010 Oct 12, In Mozambique 17 prisoners cut the bars at Nampula Industrial Penitentiary before escaping. They were among 99 inmates recently transferred to Nampula from neighboring provinces. One fugitive was soon re-captured.
(AP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 14, Mozambique state radio said a court in has sentenced two men to 20 years in prison each for mutilating a 12-year-old boy and trying to sell his body parts to a witchdoctor. The report said the two men, the boy's uncle and another, held the boy down, cut out his eyes and removed his genitals, intending to sell them to a Malawian witchdoctor. The boy survived.
(AP, 10/14/10)
2010 Oct 25, South African soldiers strayed into neighboring Mozambique and exchanged fire with civilians, leaving 2 people dead and one injured.
(AP, 10/26/10)(AP, 10/27/10)
2010 Nov 9, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva began a 2-day visit to Mozambique, focusing on education and health care in his last trip to Africa before leaving office.
(AFP, 11/9/10)
2010 Dec 6, Saudi Arabia's Rani Investment Group said it would break ground on a 100-million-dollar (75-million-euro) resort on a Mozambique island next year, aiming to cash in on foreign tourists.
(AFP, 12/6/10)
2010 Dec 8, A Mozambican judge sentenced two former government officials to 12 years in prison for stealing 3.6 million meticais ($103,000) from the government. The court ordered the government data center's former director Orlando Come and former head of administration and finance Manuel Vilanculos to repay the stolen money.
(AP, 12/8/10)
2010 Dec 10, It was reported that the United States is concerned that Mozambique could become a narco-state because of close ties between drug smugglers and the nation's government, according to US Embassy cables released by WikiLeaks.
(AP, 12/10/10)
2010 The population of Mozambique was about 20 million.
(Econ, 7/10/10, p.50)
2011 Jan 10, In Mozambique a heavy storm killed 10 people and seriously injured seven others in the central province of Manica.
(Reuters, 1/12/11)
2011 Jan 17, Mozambique officially received its new $70-million (€53-million) national sports stadium from the Chinese government after a series of false starts delayed its completion.
(AFP, 1/17/11)
2011 Jan 17, South Africa's Cooperative Governance Ministry said at least 40 people have been killed or gone missing following heavy rains from late December through most of January and that thousands of homes in neighboring Mozambique have been destroyed.
(Reuters, 1/17/11)
2011 Feb 13, Fifty illegal Somali migrants and a Tanzanian captain died after a ship sank off the coast of northern Mozambique. Mozambican marines sent 89 Somali and Ethiopian survivors to a refugee camp which holds about 3,000 illegal migrants.
(AP, 2/16/11)
2011 Mar 13, In Maputo, Mozambique, 2 people suffocated to death in a crowd of 10,000 at the weekend opening of the new Universal Church of the Reign of God, a Brazilian-based evangelical church.
(AFP, 3/14/11)
2011 Apr 14, Mozambique announced that it is building a $102 million (€70 million) airport in the northern city Nacala in an effort to expand infrastructure to attract tourists and investment.
(AFP, 4/14/11)
2011 May 1, In central Mozambique a US Peace Corps volunteer was raped at knife-point. On May 11 the US Congress opened hearings into the safety of the agency's volunteers worldwide. The program said more than 1,000 volunteers had been raped or sexually abused in the past decade and reported on allegations that the agency had mishandled sexual assault complaints.
(AP, 5/11/11)
2011 May 8, In Mozambique Vale, the Brazilian mining giant, opened a new $1.7 billion coal mine, tapping the southern African country's thermal and coking coal reserves of around 23 billion tons.
(AFP, 5/8/11)
2011 May 23, Mozambique’s Supreme Court slashed jail time for Antonio Munguambe, transport and communications minister from 2005 to 2008, to four and a half years as opposed to 20, saying embezzlement from a public company earned a lesser penalty than stealing money from the government.
(AFP, 5/24/11)
2011 Jun 24, Mozambique said will begin housing minors in separate prisons from adults, as the justice minister opened the country's first juvenile detention facility.
(AFP, 6/24/11)
2011 Jul 27, Mozambique’s state daily Noticias said the country’s highest decision-making body, the Council of Ministers, has endorsed measures to criminalize embezzlement, influence peddling, and graft.
(AFP, 7/27/11)
2011 Jul 28, Mozambique’s official opposition party, the former rebel group Renamo, said it will build barracks for its demobilized soldiers to "defend democracy." The first barracks will be built in the northern provinces of Cabo Delgado and Niassa, and in the central provinces of Sofala and Zambezia, one-time Renamo strongholds.
(AFP, 7/28/11)
2011 Sep 12, In Mozambique a group of 15 Ethiopian athletes, after competing at the 10th All Africa Games, went missing and left some of their possessions in the athletes' village outside the capital Maputo.
(AFP, 9/15/11)
2011 Oct 20, Italian energy giant ENI announced a giant natural gas discovery off the coast of Mozambique, which could be the largest in company's history.
(AFP, 10/20/11)
2011 Oct 26, More than 700 Mozambican civil war veterans and their families gathered in Maputo during a 2nd day of protests to demand pensions from the government. None of the 70,000 fighters from the 16-year civil war between the Frelimo government forces and Renamo rebel group currently receive pensions, while veterans from the country's liberation war against colonial power Portugal do get money from the state.
(AFP, 10/26/11)
2011 Nov 2, Mozambique state media said lynch mobs killed two people over the weekend accused of being witches. Police reportedly arrested six people for the killings.
(AFP, 11/2/11)
2011 Nov 22, A survey of some 6,000 people over the last 12 months in Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe said police are the most corrupt institution in the six countries.
(AFP, 11/22/11)
2011 SABMiller launched the world’s first commercially produced cassava beer. It was brewed in Mozambique.
(Econ, 3/24/12, p.67)
2012 Jan 15, Tropical Storm Dando hit Mozambique. 3 days of rain left 5 people dead.
(AFP, 1/19/12)
2012 Jan 22, In Mozambique storms left 12 people dead in the central province of Zambezia. Ten deaths in southern areas had been reported earlier in the aftermath of a tropical depression that brought fierce rains and wind last week.
(AP, 1/23/12)
2012 Jan 31, WFP officials said the World Food Program (WFP) will give emergency food to more than 80,000 people in Mozambique after twin cyclones left 32 dead.
(AP, 1/31/12)
2012 Feb 1, South Africa’s national parks agency said 3 young Mozambican poachers will spend 25 years behind bars after they were found with two fresh rhino horns in Kruger Park.
(AFP, 2/2/12)
2012 Feb 9, It was reported that a woman (35) recently walked through a field in northern Mozambique, near where a group of teenage boys were undergoing their ritual circumcision into adulthood. Accusing her of trespassing on sacred ground forbidden to women, the traditional leader meted out his punishment: He ordered 17 of his young initiates to gang rape her. Four of the youths were arrested.
(AFP, 2/9/12)
2012 Mar 2, Mozambique's government said it has refused to let mining giant Rio Tinto use the Zambezi River to transport coal to the Indian Ocean for export. For now the Sena railway line to Beira in the center of the country and the Nacala line in the north were the preferred export routes for coal.
(AFP, 3/2/12)
2012 Mar 8, Mozambique police stormed a camp of about 300 armed opposition supporters in the north, arresting 20 and wounding two in Nampula.
(AP, 3/8/12)
2012 Mar 15, Mozambique's Cahora Bassa dam denied cutting power to Zimbabwe, which had claimed the state-owned company had pulled the plug over unpaid bills totaling around $75 million.
(AFP, 3/15/12)
2012 Apr 18, Mozambique state-run newspaper Noticias reported that rampaging elephants are terrorizing villages near the Zimbabwe border, attacking people, trampling crops and scaring children.
(AFP, 4/18/12)
2012 May 12, The presidents of Mozambique and Malawi signed an electricity agreement in Maputo in a first step to restore troubled relations between the two southern African neighbors.
(AFP, 5/12/12)
2012 May 30, Mozambican police arrested a Vietnamese man at the main airport in Maputo as he tried to smuggle rhino horns out of the country. Doan Minh (41) had already made it past airport security screening when he was caught.
(AFP, 5/31/12)
2012 Jun, In Mozambique Danish biotech giant Novozymes led a scheme under the Cleanstar name whereby Mozambican farmers sell surplus cassava that is converted to ethanol at a new facility near the central port city of Beira. The fuel is then shipped to Maputo, where Cleanstar sells new gas operated stoves. Some 200 stoves were sold in the first month and another 3,000 were on order.
(AFP, 6/9/12)
2012 Jul 21, Mozambique launched a Brazilian funded pharmaceutical plant that will make anti-retroviral drugs to battle the HIV/AIDS scourge in the southern African country. The plant will initially package drugs from Brazil but start producing the pills by the end of the year.
(AFP, 7/21/12)
2012 Jul 31, Malawi vowed to press on with oil and gas exploration on Lake Malawi, dismissing a demand by Tanzania, which claims half of the lake, to halt prospecting. Mozambique also owns part of the lake.
(AFP, 7/31/12)
2012 Aug 18, In Mozambique Southern African leaders slammed Rwanda for supporting rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a threat to regional stability and urged Kigali to immediately stop its "interference." The Southern African Development Community (SADC) mandated a mission to Rwanda to urge them to stop support for the M23.
(AFP, 8/18/12)
2012 Aug 31, Mozambican police killed Orquilio Nhassengo, the suspected kingpin of a kidnapping ring that has targeted wealthy Muslims in Maputo, during a raid in which six were also arrested.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 9, In England a man fell to the ground in the Mortlake neighborhood of West London when a jet passing overhead lowered its landing gear as it neared the runway at Heathrow Airport. The apparent stowaway had no identification papers, just some currency from Angola. The man was later identified as Jose Matada of Mozambique.
(AP, 12/10/12)(SFC, 4/12/13, p.A2)
2012 Nov 15, In Mozambique youths in Maputo burned tires and attacked motorists over hikes in bus fees.
(AP, 11/15/12)
2012 Nov 18, In Mozambique pilots and crew members at the national airline went on strike, grounding the carrier.
(AP, 11/18/12)
2012 Dec 21, In Mozambique 14 people died when a tire burst on a speeding minibus, causing the driver to lose control and collide with an oncoming vehicle.
(AP, 12/22/12)0
2012 Mozambique ranked 184 out of 187 on the UN’s Human Development Index.
(Economist, 9/29/12, p.54)
2013 Jan 29, The UN said more than 150,000 have been displaced by flooding in Mozambique over the last several days as the overall death toll stood at 38.
(AP, 1/29/13)
2013 Apr 9, Mozambican authorities say they have made some arrests after recent attacks and fighting between police and alleged members of an opposition group killed at least seven people and wounded 13 people in the violence in Sofala province.
(AP, 4/9/13)
2013 Apr, In Mozambique Renamo militia attacked a police position killing 4 officers. They said it was in response to an army raid on their Satunjira base camp.
(Econ, 11/9/13, p.54)
2013 May 2, It was reported that the last rhino in Mozambique has been killed. The warden in charge of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park — the only place where the horned behemoths lived in Mozambique — also said poachers have wiped out the last of the rhinos. Mozambique's conservation director believed a few may remain.
(AP, 5/2/13)
2013 Jun 15, In Mozambique regional presidents of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), meeting at a special summit on Zimbabwe asked President Mugabe to delay crucial elections he has set for the end of July while asking the nation to guarantee conditions for free and fair elections.
(AP, 6/15/13)
2013 Jun 17, In Mozambique an assault by 100-150 opposition fighters on an arms depot in Sofala province killed 6 government troops and injured three others.
(AP, 6/18/13)
2013 Aug 11, Mozambican government forces over the weekend attacked a guerrilla camp of the Renamo opposition group in a flareup of violence ahead of local and presidential elections between former foes from the country's devastating 17-year civil war.
(Reuters, 8/13/13)
2013 Sep 11, Mozambique's bid to end a conflict with former rebels that has unnerved investors hit an impasse after the group's leader refused to leave his bush camp for talks.
(AFP, 9/11/13)
2013 Oct 17, Mozambique government forces killed two fighters from rebel group Renamo in clashes on the first anniversary of their leader's return to the bush.
(AFP, 10/17/13)
2013 Oct 21, Mozambique ex-rebel group Renamo declared the end of a peace deal signed 21 years ago after the army seized its military base.
(AFP, 10/21/13)
2013 Oct 26, In central Mozambique armed gunmen attacked a civilian convoy including a passenger bus, killing one and wounding at least ten.
(AFP, 10/26/13)
2013 Nov 5, Mozambique's revived rebel movement Renamo spurned the government's invite for high level face-to-face talks to end destabilising military skirmishes. Opposition fighters killed 4 soldiers in two separate attacks amid escalating violence in the central part of the country.
(AFP, 11/5/13)(AP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 15, In Mozambique suspected Renamo ex-rebels ambushed a convoy of cars killing one person and wounding 10 others along a key highway in the latest of low-intensity attacks gripping the country.
(AFP, 11/15/13)
2013 Nov 20, Mozambique held local elections. Preliminary results from the largely peaceful elections pointed to a comprehensive victory for the ruling Frelimo party and a potential shake-up among the country's opposition parties.
(AFP, 11/21/13)
2013 Nov 29, A Mozambique Airlines plane carrying 33 people crashed in a Namibian national park, killing all on board. On Dec 21 a preliminary investigation reported that the captain had a "clear intention" to crash.
(AP, 11/30/13)(AP, 12/1/13)(AFP, 12/21/13)
2014 Jan 15, Mozambican police say they have arrested four Rwandans, including Lt. Col. Francis Gakwerere, a senior official in the Rwandan armed forces, for the Jan 1 murder in South Africa of former Rwandan spymaster Col. Patrick Karegeya. The four were arrested last week.
(AP, 1/15/14)
2014 Jan, Japan’s PM Shinzo Abe visited the Ivory Coast, Mozambique and Ethiopia to counter China’s success in building diplomatic support and winning access to raw materials.
(Econ, 1/25/14, p.34)
2014 Mar 2, Mozambique agriculture minister Jose Pacheco said that more than 300,000 people in central and southern regions of the country face famine this year.
(AP, 3/3/14)
2014 Mar 7, Mozambican PM Alberto Vaquina says attacks by the opposition party and former rebel movement Renamo have displaced more than 6,000 people in the central parts of the country.
(AP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 10, Flooding in parts of southern Mozambique prompted authorities to call on people to evacuate. More than 6,000 people living in the Incomati basin were at risk from flooding.
(AFP, 3/10/14)
2014 Mar 10, South Africa said it will ask Mozambican authorities to investigate reports of sexual abuse of its female nationals held in the neighbouring country's jails.
(AFP, 3/10/14)
2014 Jun 5, Mozambique's revived rebel movement Renamo called off a truce with government forces, warning that armed attacks would spread from the main north-south highway across the country. Local media reported at least four deaths this week in as many attacks on vehicles travelling along the EN1 highway between the Save River and the town of Muxungue.
(AFP, 6/5/14)
2014 Sep 5, In Mozambique a peace accord was signed in Maputo between Pres. Armando Guebuza and Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama. It was intended to end almost 2 years of hostilities between the two sides.
(AP, 9/6/14)
2014 Sep 7, In Mozambique six suspected poachers were arrested in the Niassa National Reserve wildlife reserve, home to about two-thirds of the country’s elephants.
(AP, 9/14/14)
2014 Oct 9, In Mozambique the Maputo-based Center for Public Integrity (CIP) said ruling Frelimo party boosted campaign funds for upcoming elections by smuggling timber to Chinese buyers.
(AFP, 10/10/14)
2014 Oct 12, In Mozambique brawling supporters of Frelimo and opposition party Renamo clashed in the northern city of Nampula, where 23 people were injured and 13 others arrested ahead of legislative and provincial elections on Oct 15.
(AFP, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 15, Mozambicans voted in a tough electoral test for the ruling Frelimo party, which has run the southern African country since independence from Portugal in 1975. The race put Frelimo's Filipe Nyusi (55), the former defense minister, against Afonso Dhlakama (61), the veteran leader of former rebel group Renamo, and Daviz Simango (50), founder of the Mozambique Democratic Party (MDM). Provisional results on Oct 24 said Nyusi won with 57% of the vote. Dhlakama took 36% and Simango took nearly 7%.
(AFP, 10/15/14)(AP, 10/19/14)(Reuters, 10/24/14)
2014 Oct 17, Mozambican Renamo opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama said he would challenge elections held this week which he called unfair and marred by fraud.
(AP, 10/17/14)
2014 Oct 19, A Mozambican opposition party which came third in presidential and legislative polls said it rejected the results and would mount a legal challenge.
(AFP, 10/19/14)
2014 Oct 20, Mozambique's national elections commission said that vote counting in the country's northwestern province has stopped due to possible fraud with more than 60 percent of votes counted so far.
(AP, 10/20/14)
2014 Oct 30, The Mozambique National Electoral Commission said Filipe Nyusi (55) of the governing Frelimo party has been elected as the next president with 57% of the vote in final results of polls two weeks ago.
(AP, 10/30/14)
2014 Nov 12, In Mozambique Mohamed Bachir Suleman, a wealthy businessman accused by the US government in 2010 of being an international drug trafficker, was kidnapped by four men with assault rifles in the parking lot of a shopping mall that he owns in Maputo. Police rescued Suleman on Dec 19. He believed his kidnappers were Zimbabwean and South African nationals.
(AP, 11/14/14)(AP, 12/20/14)(AFP, 12/21/14)
2014 Dec 19, Mozambican authorities said 5 people have died in floods in the capital Maputo, after days of torrential rain.
(AP, 12/19/14)
2015 Jan 6, Mozambique police arrested Antonio Muchanga, a senior official of Renamo, the country's largest opposition party, on charges of inciting violence amid renewed political tension between the former rebel group and government.
(AFP, 1/6/15)
2015 Jan 11, In Mozambique a contaminated traditional beer called Pombe killed numerous people in Tete province. The death toll soon reached 69 with 196 others admitted to hospital.
(AP, 1/11/15)(SFC, 1/12/15, p.A3)(SFC, 1/13/15, p.A2)
2015 Jan 14, The Mozambique government disaster management office said heavy flooding has killed 10 people and displaced nearly 20,000 more.
(AP, 1/14/15)
2015 Jan 15, Mozambique's new President Filipe Nyusi was sworn into office in a ceremony boycotted by the main opposition party.
(AFP, 1/15/15)
2015 Feb 11, The Mozambique government said a cholera epidemic has killed 19 people in the north following flooding that devastated the region.
(AFP, 2/11/15)
2015 Feb 19, In Mozambique at least one person was killed and 12 wounded when a cargo train laden with coal derailed near Magude.
(AFP, 2/19/15)
2015 Mar 3, In Mozambique a gunman shot dead Gilles Cistac (54), a prominent lawyer, who was viewed as sympathetic to opposition calls for decentralization of power. Former rebel group Renamo said Cistac had been killed because of his views on decentralization. On April 13 police said Manuel Lucio and Arsenio Nhaposse have been arrested in connection with the murder.
(Reuters, 3/3/15)(Reuters, 4/13/15)
2015 Mar 7, In Mozambique hundreds of human rights activists and students marched in Maputo demanding justice for the March 3 murder of lawyer Gilles Cistac.
(Econ., 3/14/15, p.52)
2015 May 12, Mozambican police seized 340 elephant tusks and 65 rhino horns from a house in the city of Matola. Two Chinese citizens were arrested. Mozambique's elephant population has dropped from just over 20,000 to about 10,300 since 2009.
(AP, 5/28/15)
2015 May 27, Mozambican police said six police officers officials have been arrested after 50 kg (110 pounds) of rhino horn were stolen from a huge cache seized from poachers only two weeks ago.
(AFP, 5/27/15)(AP, 5/28/15)
2015 May, A North Korean diplomat was arrested in Mozambique on charges related to rhino horn smuggling.
(AP, 12/23/15)
2015 Jun 11, Mozambique news reported that authorities have arrested five police officers for colluding with a poacher in the illegal sale of a rhino horn.
(AP, 6/11/15)
2015 Jun 29, Mozambique decriminalized homosexuality when a new penal code came into force that swept away old Portuguese colonial laws.
(AFP, 6/29/15)
2015 Jul 6, Mozambique authorities burned more than 2.6 tons of ivory and rhino horns confiscated during various anti-poaching busts, demonstrating a tough stance on wildlife trafficking.
(AFP, 7/6/15)
2015 Jul 27, A Malawian official said hundreds of Mozambicans have fled into the neighboring country following fighting between the government and opposition fighters.
(AP, 7/27/15)
2015 Aug 29, In Mozambique veteran journalist Paulo Machava, known for his crime reporting, was gunned down on the streets of the capital.
(AP, 8/29/15)
2015 Sep 17, Mozambique declared itself free of landmines, ending two decades of work to rid the country of a legacy of war that killed or maimed thousands of people.
(Reuters, 9/17/15)
2015 Sep 25, In Mozambique 9 members of a convoy carrying Mozambique's opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama were killed along with a driver in a shootout. Surviving Renamo members, apparently including Dhlakama, fled into the bush and a police operation was continuing in the area.
(AFP, 9/26/15)
2015 Dec 12, Mozambique said the United States will grant it $1.2 billion in aid to fund projects in healthcare, food production and education under a five-year agreement signed this week.
(Reuters, 12/12/15)
2016 Jan 14, Mozambican refugees were reported flooding into Malawi by the hundreds, recounting how government forces are torching their homes and barns in the hunt for supporters of Renamo opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama, who aims to seize power in six provinces.
(AFP, 1/14/16)
2016 Mar 3, Mozambique aviation authorities displayed the recovered a one-meter fragment from a Boeing 777 believed to be from flight MH370 which vanished on March 8, 2014. Blaine Gibson, a lawyer from Seattle, recently discovered the fragment on a sandbank near the tourist island of Benguerra.
(AFP, 3/3/16)
2016 Mar 27, Thailand seized 87 ivory tusks, worth an estimated $800,000, found in a dozen barrels sent from Mozambique on a Kenya Airways flight. A routine X-ray at Suvarnabhumi International Airport detected the contraband.
(AP, 4/5/16)
2016 Apr 15, The IMF said it suspended lending to Mozambique for failing to disclose some $1.4 billion of hidden debts.
(http://tinyurl.com/y77l7neo)(Econ 6/17/17, p.67)
2016 May 16, The International Federation of Red Cross and the Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) pledged $110 million to a new initiative to help drought-stricken southern African countries including Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.
(AP, 5/16/16)
2016 May, In Mozambique the Renamo insurgent group carried out 18 attacks on the main road, killing 7 people and leaving more than 30 wounded. Since 2013, tensions have risen and Renamo fighters have again taken up arms in a battle that it says is against a Frelimo elite who has enriched itself at the expense of the country.
(AFP, 6/19/16)
2016 Jul 28, The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said some 23 million farmers in drought-hit Southern Africa need urgent help to prepare for the next planting season with only a few weeks left before it begins. It said Botswana, Swaziland, South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe have reported more than 640,000 drought-related livestock deaths. Farmers and cattle herders in 10 countries have requested assistance: Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
(Reuters, 7/28/16)
2016 Jul, Moody’s downgraded Mozambique saying it was very near to defaulting on its government bonds.
(Econ, 7/16/16, p.38)
2016 Aug 12, In Mozambique 6 civilians burned to death in an attack by Renamo rebels, the latest in a string of violent skirmishes between opposition fighters and government forces.
(AFP, 8/15/16)
2016 Nov 17, In Mozambique a tanker truck carrying petrol exploded in Tete province. 43 people were killed on the spot. The death toll soon rose to 80 with 35 in critical condition.
(AFP, 11/18/16)(SFC, 11/17/16, p.A2)(AFP, 11/21/16)
2016 Dec 16, Cambodian authorities found 1.3 metric tons of ivory, 10 cheetah skulls and 82 kg (180 pounds) of cheetah bones, and 137 kg (301 pounds) of pangolin scales concealed in three containers shipped from Mozambique.
(AP, 12/22/16)
2016 Dec 27, Mozambique's opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama said Renamo will cease all military operations against government forces for the next seven days to allow the public to enjoy New Year festivities.
(Reuters, 12/27/16)
2017 Jan 3, Mozambique's Renamo opposition party said it had extended a ceasefire by two months to allow talks with President Filipe Nyusi's government, raising hopes for a nascent peace process.
(Reuters, 1/3/17)
2017 Jan 16, Mozambique, caught between a scandal over hidden debt that has prompted an aid cut-off and a commodity price slump, said it would miss a $60 million interest payment.
(AFP, 1/16/17)
2017 Jan 24, In Mozambique Turkish Pres. Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on leader Filipe Nyusi to take action against the exiled cleric he blames for last year's failed coup.
(AFP, 1/24/17)
2017 Feb 15, Tropical storm Dineo hit the coastline of Mozambique. At least two people were killed and in and further casualties were expected.
(Reuters, 2/16/17)
2017 Feb 17, Mozambique disaster officials said Cyclone Dineo has killed seven people, injured 55 and affected hundreds of thousands across southern Mozambique.
(AFP, 2/17/17)
2017 May 4, The leader of Mozambique's Renamo opposition party and rebel movement said he was extending a ceasefire indefinitely, part of an agreement reached in talks with the government to end violence since a disputed 2014 election.
(Reuters, 5/4/17)
2017 Jun 6, Mozambique police warned that bald people could be the targets of ritual attacks, after the brutal killing of two men last month in Milange whose body parts were to be used in witchcraft. Two suspects were under arrest.
(AFP, 6/7/17)
2017 Sep 27, It was reported that hundreds of vultures in Namibia died after feeding on an elephant carcass that poachers had poisoned. Poachers in Zimbabwe used cyanide to kill dozens of elephants for their ivory tusks. In Mozambique three lions died after eating bait infused with a crop pesticide.
(AP, 9/27/17)
2017 Oct 4, In Mozambique Mahamudo Amurane (44), the mayor of Nampula, was fatally shot after giving a speech about peace efforts on the 25th anniversary of the signing of an accord that ended the country's civil war.
(AP, 10/5/17)
2017 Oct 5, In Mozambique a war started when a group of insurgents occupied the district town and port of Mocimboa da Praia for two days. The war expanded rapidly and by Sept. 2020 at least 1,500 people have been killed and an estimated 250,000 have fled their homes.
(BBC, 9/17/20)
2017 Oct 6, In northern Mozambique suspected Islamists attacked a string of police stations in the small town of Mocimboa de Praia over the last 24 hours killing two policemen. 14 of the gunmen were slain. was believed to be the first jihadist attack on the country.
(AFP, 10/7/17)(AFP, 6/7/18)
2018 Feb 19, In Mozambique heavy rains triggered the partial collapse of a huge mound of garbage at the Hulene dump on the outskirts of Maputo, killing as many as 17 people who were buried by debris.
(AP, 2/19/18)
2018 Feb 22, Mozambique’s National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC) said in its latest update that the southern hemisphere summer rainy season has killed 50 people in Mozambique since October.
(Reuters, 2/22/18)
2018 Mar 14, A Mozambique government spokeswoman said pests and disease have destroyed at least a third of the country's agricultural crops over the past 11 months. A day earlier the cabinet approved a 160 million metical ($2.6 million) action plan to combat pests and disease.
(Reuters, 3/14/18)
2018 May 3, Mozambique veteran rebel leader Afonso Dhlakama (65), who had opened talks with the government, died unexpectedly. Local media said he suffered sever diabetes. For 39 years Dhlakama led Renamo, the rebel group which fought a 16-year civil war against the ruling Frelimo party. In December 2016, Dhlakama announced a surprise truce with the government in the major first step towards a formal peace deal.
(AP, 5/4/18)
2018 May 27, In Mozambique 10 people, including two teenagers, were beheaded in the country's north. Police said evidence shows the attackers are with the same group that killed police officers in Mocimboa da Praia in October amid concerns that the machete-wielding attackers have links to Islamic extremism.
(AP, 5/30/18)
2018 Jun 5, In northern Mozambique suspected jihadists hacked seven people to death after beheading 10 people in another settlement on May 27.
(AFP, 6/7/18)
2018 Jun 6, In northern Mozambique suspected jihadists wielding knives and machetes killed five people in a region that has been rocked by attacks blamed on radical Islamists.
(AFP, 6/7/18)
2018 Jun 8, In Mozambique a US embassy alert warned of an imminent attack on the regional gas hub Palma. Since October, more than 30 people have been killed in brazen assaults on unarmed villagers.
(AFP, 6/24/18)
2018 Jul 5, It was reported that Mozambique has emerged as one of the world's key heroin trading hubs, with the drug now the country's second largest export as it is smuggled from Afghanistan to Europe.
(AFP, 7/5/18)
2018 Jul 23, Diamond producer De Beers said it was relocating 200 elephants from its private reserve in South Africa to neighboring Mozambique, part of wider efforts to restore wildlife populations ravaged by conflict there.
(Reuters, 7/23/18)
2018 Sep 20, In northern Mozambique 12 villagers were killed and 14 injured in an attack late today by suspected jihadists in the village of Paqueue. Separately a military convoy came under attack near the Tanzanian border north of Paqueue, killing a senior army officer.
(AFP, 9/21/18)
2018 Oct 6, Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi launched an initiative to disarm and reintegrate the military wing of the country's main opposition party, Renamo, as part of efforts to bolster peace and security.
(Reuters, 10/6/18)
2018 Nov 23, In northern Mozambique 12 people were killed in a suspected Islamist attack, with thousands of villagers fleeing the area into neighboring Tanzania.
(AFP, 11/25/18)
2018 Dec 13, Cambodian authorities seized more than 3 tons of rare African ivory hidden inside an abandoned shipping container, the country's largest haul of elephant tusks in the last four years. The ivory was sent from Mozambique.
(AP, 12/15/18)
2018 Dec 29 South Africa arrested Manuel Chang, the former Mozambican finance minister, at the Johannesburg airport. A US indictment alleged that Chang and others violated US anti-corruption laws in a $2 billion loan scandal that plunged Mozambique into financial crisis.
(AP, 1/9/19)
2019 Jan 22, In Mozambique South African businessman Andre Mayer Hanekom (61), held on suspicion of being a jihadist leader, died in hospital under mysterious circumstances. Hanekom, who ran a maritime business in Palma, was arrested in August alongside two locals and two Tanzanians, with prosecutors accusing them of being part of a jihadist group.
(AFP, 1/23/19)
2019 Jan 29, British mining group Gemfields said it will pay 5.8 million pounds in compensation to nearly 300 miners over accusations of torture around a ruby mine in Mozambique, but denied liability.
(AFP, 1/29/19)
2019 Feb 8, In northern Mozambique local sources said suspected jihadists have killed seven men and abducted four women in the latest violence to hit the Cabo Delgado region. The bodies were cut into pieces and left in Piqueue village.
(AFP, 2/8/19)
2019 Feb 21, In northern Mozambique a local worker was killed and six others were wounded when two road convoys operated by US gas giant Anadarko came under attack.
(AFP, 2/22/19)
2019 Mar 14, Mozambique cancelled flights to several domestic destinations as a tropical cyclone, potentially the strongest to hit the country in nearly two decades, approached. Cyclone Idai hit Mozambique late today and continued on to Zimbabwe and Malawi. Over the next two days more than 140 people were killed, hundreds more were missing and tens of thousands left stranded in mainly poor, rural areas.
(AFP, 3/14/19)(AP, 3/16/19)(SSFC, 3/17/19, p.A7)
2019 Mar 18, Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi said that more than 1,000 may have by killed by Cyclone Idai. The official death count stood at 84. The Red Cross said that 90 percent of Beira, a city of 500,000, had been damaged or destroyed. The death toll in Malawi from heavy rains and flooding stood at 56 as of last week.
(AP, 3/18/19)(Reuters, 3/18/19)
2019 Mar 19, Aid workers in Mozambique said rapidly rising floodwaters have created "an inland ocean" endangering scores of thousands of families, as they scrambled to rescue survivors of Cyclone Idai who clung to rooftops and trees.
(AP, 3/19/19)
2019 Mar 20, In Mozambique aid workers scrambled to save hundreds trapped by floods around the port city of Beira. At least 200 people have died in Mozambique and 98 in Zimbabwe, but the death toll is likely to rise as rescuers are still finding bodies.
(Reuters, 3/20/19)
2019 Mar 21, Mozambique authorities said the death toll in the country has risen to 217 and around 15,000 people, many of them very ill, still need to be rescued. In neighboring Zimbabwe, the death toll from Cyclone Idai jumped to 139.
(Reuters, 3/21/19)
2019 Mar 22, The confirmed death toll in Mozambique and neighboring Zimbabwe reached 432, with 293 killed in Mozambique, and around 1.7 million people affected. Hundreds of thousands of people scrambled for shelter, food and water across a swathe of southern Africa.
(AFP, 3/22/19)(Reuters, 3/22/19)
2019 Mar 23, Mozambique said the number of people killed after Cyclone Idai tore through the country has risen to 417.
(Reuters, 3/23/19)
2019 Mar 24, Mozambique's death toll rose to 446 from 417. In Zimbabwe, UN agencies have given different tolls of 259 and 154, while in Malawi 56 people died in heavy rains ahead of Cyclone Idai.
(AP, 3/24/19)
2019 Mar 27, A Mozambique government official said five cases of cholera have been confirmed following Cyclone Idai that ravaged the country, killing at least 468 people.
(AFP, 3/27/19)
2019 Mar 27, UN officials said at least 707 people had been reported killed by Cyclone Idai, the flooding it caused and heavy rains before it hit. This included 468 in Mozambique, 259 in Zimbabwe and 60 in Malawi.
(Reuters, 3/27/19)
2019 Mar 29, In Mozambique the number of confirmed cases of cholera in the cyclone-hit port city of Beira jumped from five to 138, as government and aid agencies battled to contain the spread of disease among the tens of thousands of victims of the storm.
(Reuters, 3/29/19)
2019 Mar 30, Mozambique authorities said cholera cases among cyclone survivors have jumped to 271, a figure that nearly doubled from the previous day.
(AP, 3/30/19)
2019 Mar 30, United Nations officials said at least 746 people have been reported killed in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe since Cyclone Idai landed on March 14.
(Reuters, 3/30/19)
2019 Apr 1, Mozambican and international health workers raced to contain the outbreak of cholera in the cyclone-hit city of Beira and surrounding areas, where cases of the disease has jumped to more than 1,000.
(AP, 4/1/19)
2019 Apr 2, Mozambique officials said cholera cases have risen above 1,400 as hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses arrived in an attempt to limit the rapid spread of the disease.
(AP, 4/2/19)
2019 Apr 3, In Mozambique a vaccination campaign was launched in the central city of Beira after a cyclone slammed into the region and unleashed an outbreak of cholera. The disease has already killed two people and infected more than 1,400.
(AFP, 4/3/19)
2019 Apr 7, UN and government officials said at least 847 people have been killed by Cyclone Idai, the flooding it caused and heavy rains after it hit Mozambique (602), Zimbabwe (259) and Malawi (60).
(Reuters, 4/7/19)
2019 Apr 8, A South African court ruled that Michael Chang (63), a Mozambican ex-finance minister held since December on a US arrest warrant, can be extradited to either the United States or his home country. Ultimately the South African government is likely to decide where he goes.
(AFP, 4/8/19)
2019 Apr 9, Zimbabwe updated its death toll from Cyclone Idai to 344 while Mozambique said recorded fatalities stood at 602, taking the combined tally to 946.
(AFP, 4/10/19)
2019 Apr 25, In Mozambique a powerful tropical cyclone began to make landfall, just six weeks after Cyclone Idai devastated the central part of the country and left hundreds dead.
(AP, 4/25/19)
2019 Apr 25, Cyclone Kenneth lashed the East African island nation of Comoros overnight, killing three people, and swept toward flood-battered Mozambique.
(AP, 4/25/19)
2019 Apr 26, Cyclone Kenneth ripped off roofs in Mozambique and killed at least three people as the UN warned of "massive flooding" ahead. Over the next 10 days, the storm is expected to dump twice as much rain as Cyclone Idai did last month.
(AP, 4/26/19)
2019 Apr 27, Mozambican officials urged those living near two rivers in the country's north to move to higher ground, as Cyclone Kenneth dumped heavy rains and caused some flooding. The death toll from Kenneth rose to five.
(Reuters, 4/27/19)
2019 Apr 29, In northern Mozambique rains grounded aid flights for a second day, hampering efforts to reach survivors of Cyclone Kenneth as the death toll there jumped to 38.
(Reuters, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 30, Rains pounded parts of northern Mozambique, several days after Cyclone Kenneth struck the southern African nation. The UN said aid workers faced difficulties in reaching thousands of survivors and the death toll rose to 41.
(AP, 4/30/19)
2019 May, In Mozambique the death toll from Cyclones Idai in March and Kenneth this month killed more than 650 people, plus hundreds of others in Zimbabwe and Malawi.
(SFC, 5/31/19, p.A3)
2019 May 3, The World Bank said will extend more than half-a-billion dollars in grants for cyclone-ravaged southern African countries as he concluded a visit to Mozambique. A total of up to $545 million will be disbursed to Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, the three countries hit by Cyclone Idai in March.
(AFP, 5/3/19)
2019 Jun 3, UN officials said international donors have pledged $1.2 billion to help Mozambique recover from the devastation caused by cyclones Idai and Kenneth, but $3.2 billion is needed overall.
(AFP, 6/3/19)
2019 Jun 4, The Islamic State group claimed it was involved in an insurgent clash late today in Mozambique for the first time. An expert expressed doubt and police dismissed the claim outright.
(AFP, 6/5/19)
2019 Jun 16, Two members of Mozambique's border police were shot dead in an incident involving South African soldiers and the two countries launched a joint investigation into what happened.
(Reuters, 6/17/19)
2019 Aug 1, Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi and the leader of the main opposition party Renamo signed a permanent ceasefire agreement, designed to put an end to almost half a century of hostilities that killed over 1 million people at their peak.
(Reuters, 8/1/19)
2019 Aug 6, Mozambique's leaders hoped to close the book on a decades-long conflict with the signing of a new peace accord. But an election in October and new causes of violence meant lasting peace is far from assured.
(AP, 8/6/19)
2019 Aug 22, In Russia Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi signed energy and security agreements with Pres. Vladimir Putin in the first visit by a leader from the southern African state in two decades.
(AFP, 8/22/19)
2019 Aug 27, The Mozambican government formally launched an exchange offer for its defaulted 2023 Eurobond, seeking the consent of bondholders for a restructuring that would ease pressure on its strained public finances.
(Reuters, 8/27/19)
2019 Sep 4, Pope Francis opened a 3-nation pilgrimage to southern Africa with a visit to Mozambique.
(SFC, 9/5/19, p.A4)
2019 Sep 5, In Mozambique Pope Francis praised Pres. Felipe Nyusi and opposition leader Ossufo Momade for their courage in signing a new, landmark peace accord.
(SFC, 9/6/19, p.A4)
2019 Sep 11, The five members of the Southern African Customs Union and Mozambique said they have reached a deal with the UK to govern trade between them after Brexit.
(Bloomberg, 9/11/19)
2019 Oct 7, In Mozambique Anastacio Matavel, a key local election observer, was shot dead this morning, a week before the presidential vote, after leaving a training for national election observers in southern Gaza province.
(AP, 10/8/19)
2019 Oct 15, Mozambicans voted today in an election which President Filipe Nyusi said should help anchor peace, while his opposition rival warned against any manipulation of the results.
(Reuters, 10/15/19)
2019 Oct 19, In Mozambique the opposition Renamo party held a press conference and issued a statement accusing Frelimo of violating the country's fragile peace accord. Incumbent President Filipe Nyusi has taken an early lead in results from this week's presidential election but Renamo has questioned the results.
(Reuters, 10/19/19)
2019 Oct 27, Mozambique's National Election Commission (CNE) said incumbent President Filipe Nyusi has won a landslide victory in the Oct. 15 election it was hoped would calm tensions in a nation soon to become a top global gas exporter, but has instead stoked divisions as opposition parties cry foul.
(Reuters, 10/27/19)
2019 Nov 22, It was reported that a month's long drought is affecting most of southern Africa. The area has received just one normal rainfall in the last five growing seasons. More than 11 million people faced food insecurity in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.
(SFC, 11/22/19, p.A6)
2019 Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi hired Russia's Wagner Group to tackle a jihadist insurgency in the north. The group pulled out after a bunch of its men were killed. The government then hire the Dyck Advisory Group (DAG), led by Lionel Dyck, a South Africa-based colonel.
(Econ., 5/30/20, p.37)
2020 Jan 15, Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi (60) was sworn in for a second and final term after five turbulent years in office amid two armed insurgencies.
(AP, 1/15/20)
2020 Feb 1, It was reported that Exxon Mobil Corp and Total have asked Mozambique to send more troops to guard their operations in the far north after a surge of attacks by Islamist militants.
(Reuters, 2/1/20)
2020 Feb 7, The UN said people are fleeing a surge of attacks in northern Mozambique where witnesses have described beheadings, mass kidnappings and villages burned to the ground.
(Reuters, 2/7/20)
2020 Mar 23, In northern Mozambique militants staged an overnight attack on Mocimboa de Praia, taking a military base and raising their flag. The transport hub is near what may be Africa's largest ever gas project.
(AP, 3/23/20)(Economist, 4/4/20, p.9)
2020 Mar 24, Mozambican immigration officers found 64 dead bodies in a shipping container on the back of a lorry that had crossed into Mozambique from Malawi. There were 14 survivors.
(BBC, 3/24/20)
2020 Apr 7, In northern Mozambique Islamist militants killed around 52 people in the village of Xitaxi in Muidumbe district. The attack only came to light on April 21.
(BBC, 4/22/20)
2020 Apr 8, Rioting broke out in the Mozambican port city of Nacala after the authorities tried to ban motorcycle taxis due to the coronavirus pandemic.
(BBC, 4/9/20)
2020 Apr 8, Banco Comercial Portugues (BCP) began legal action against Mozambique, becoming the latest bank to pursue the heavily indebted East African state, which has been embroiled in a long-running $2 billion debt scandal.
(Reuters, 4/16/20)
2020 Apr 13, In Mozambique Gilberto Aparecido dos Santos (49), aka Fuminho, was arrested in Maputo after spending more than two decades on the run. He was one of Brazil's most wanted criminals and the alleged leader of the São Paulo-based First Capital Command (PCC) drug gang, accused of shipping tons of cocaine around the world.
(BBC, 4/14/20)
2020 Apr 19, Mozambique expelled a fugitive Brazilian cocaine trafficker following his arrest this week. Brazilian media reported that Gilberto Aparecido dos Santos left Mozambique early this morning in a Brazilian Air Force plane bound for Brazil.
(Reuters, 4/20/20)
2020 May 16, It was reported that Mozambique's armed forces killed 50 Islamic extremist fighters this week in battles in the gas-rich Cabo Delgado province.
(SFC, 5/16/20, p.A2)
2020 Jun 18, It was reported that six policemen in Mozambique have been found guilty of murdering an election observer ahead of last October's election. Anastacio Matavel was shot as he was driving in the southern city of Xai-Xai. His car was hit by 13 bullets.
(BBC, 6/18/20)
2020 Jul, The French firm oil firm Total secured $15 billion in loans for its liquified natural gas operations in Mozambique. This was the biggest project finance deal in African history.
(Econ., 8/29/20, p.33)
2020 Aug 5, In Mozambique insurgents another assault on the port of Mocimoa da Praia. They killed more than 50 soldiers and sank a small naval ship.
(Econ., 8/29/20, p.32)
2020 Aug 11, In Mozambique insurgents took the port of Mocimoa da Praia.
(Econ., 8/29/20, p.32)
2020 Aug 13, Mozambique said its troops are fighting to regain control of the key port of Mocimboa da Praia, following multiple reports that it had fallen to Islamist militants a day earlier. Dozens of soldiers were reported killed, and a patrol boat sunk. The army said it has killed about 60 militants.
(BBC, 8/13/20)
2020 Aug 23, In Mozambique the premises of two leading independent newspapers, the weekly Canal de Mozambique and the daily CanalMoz, were attacked late today with petrol bombs and burned. The Center for Democracy said the fire-bombing could be linked to a report Canal printed days earlier about bribery and the efforts of prominent Mozambicans to win control of part of the fuel retail business worth millions of dollars.
(AP, 8/24/20)
2020 Sep 9, Amnesty International accused Mozambique’s government security forces of torturing suspected members of an Islamist insurgency in the country’s northern Cabo Delgado province — as well as “possible extrajudicial executions", and of “discarding of a large number of corpses into apparent mass graves".
(AP, 9/9/20)
2020 Sep 14, In Mozambique a video emerged showing people dressed in army uniforms beating and killing a naked woman in the restive gas-rich Cabo Delgado province. The defence ministry soon condemned the footage as "horrifying" and vowed to "ascertain their authenticity". Defense Minister Jaime Neto later said that the video was doctored.
(BBC, 9/15/20)(AP, 9/16/20)
2020 Sep 22, The World Food Program said escalating extremist insurgency in northern Mozambique has displaced 310,000 people, creating an urgent humanitarian crisis.
(AP, 9/22/20)
2020 Nov 4, It was reported that at least 40 people fleeing extremist violence in northern Mozambique drowned when their boat sank.
(AP, 11/4/20)
2020 Nov 9, Mozambique state media reported that more than 50 people have been beheaded in northern Cabo Delgado province by militant Islamists over the few days.
(BBC, 11/9/20)
2020 Nov 10, The UN called on Mozambique to investigate reports that militants had massacred villagers and beheaded women and children in a restive northern region.
(Reuters, 11/11/20)
2021 Jan 24, Cyclone Eloise left parts of central Mozambique flooded after it struck near the port city of Beira. Four people were reported killed as the cyclone headed towards Zimbabwe and northern South Africa. The death toll was later raised to 21.
(BBC, 1/24/21)(AFP, 1/29/21)
2021 Feb 23, In Mozambique 86 dolphin carcasses were found on Bazaruto Island, north of the capital Maputo, after a first group of 14 was washed ashore two days earlier. Last week Cyclone Guambe caused unrest in the waters off the island of Bazaruto.
(BBC, 2/24/21)
2021 Feb 24, Portugal said it will send 5% of its COVID-19 vaccine shots to a group of Portuguese-speaking African countries and to the tiny nation of East Timor in the second half of the year. Portugal's former African colonies include Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, and Sao Tome and Principe.
(Reuters, 2/24/21)
2021 Mar 2, International rights group Amnesty International said war crimes have been committed by all sides fighting in Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province, including jihadi rebels, government forces and a South African mercenary outfit that provides helicopter support to government troops.
(AP, 3/2/21)
2021 Mar 10, The US government designated al-Shabaab in Mozambique as a "foreign terrorist organization", describing it as an IS-affiliate.
(BBC, 3/21/21)
2021 Mar 12, It was reported that more than half a million people in the Palma region of northern Mozambique have been driven from their homes in the past 12 months as al-Shabab militants terrorized the area.
(BBC, 3/12/21)
2021 Mar 15, The US embassy in Mozambique said US special operations forces will support Mozambique's efforts to prevent the spread of terrorism and violent extremism".
(BBC, 3/21/21)
2021 Mar 16, Aid agency Save the Children said Islamist militants are beheading children as young as 11 in Mozambique's northern province of Cabo Delgado.
(BBC, 3/16/21)
2021 Mar 26, In Mozambique insurgents attacked a convoy of civilians as they attempted to flee a hotel in Palma, killing several people and injuring dozens of others. The dead included Adrian Nel of South Africa and six others, who were in a convoy of vehicles that was apparently ambushed.
(NY Times, 3/27/21)(BBC, 3/29/21)
2021 Mar 27, In Mozambique an attack by hundreds of militants trapped nearly 200 people, including foreign workers, in a hotel in Palma, site of a major gas project. A three-day siege has left at least several people dead and hundreds of other civilians unaccounted for. Throughout the three-day siege, insurgents set government buildings ablaze and detonated explosives at three banks and the health clinic in town.
(NY Times, 3/27/21)
2021 Mar 28, In Mozambique rebels fought the Mozambican army for the fifth straight day for control of the strategic northern town of Palma, as reports came in that dozens of civilians have been killed and bodies were littering the streets.
(AP, 3/28/21)
2021 Mar 31, In northern Mozambique hundreds of militants stormed Palma, targeting shops, banks and a military barracks. Dozens of people were reported dead following the attack.
(BBC, 3/31/21)
2021 Apr 5, Mozambique's military said it has regained full control of the coastal town of Palma, more than a week after it was raided by militant Islamists.
(AP, 4/5/21)
2021 Apr 13, The UN World Food Program said almost one million people are facing severe hunger in northern Mozambique where hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee a jihadist insurgency.
(AP, 4/13/21)
2021 Apr 26, The French energy firm Total announced hat it has halted all operations on its $20 billion investment in a liquified natural gas project in northern Mozambique as a result of the extremist rebel insurgency there..
(AP, 4/26/21)
2021 Aug 6, It was reported that a 1,000-strong Rwandan force has hit the ground running since its deployment in Mozambique to fight poor insurgents who have carried out devastating attacks in the far north of the country. There is broad agreement that the uprising was begun by young people without jobs protesting about growing poverty and inequality, as well as the lack of any gains from mineral resources including rubies and gas.
(BBC, 8/6/21)
2021 Aug 8, The Rwanda Defence Force tweeted that the port city of Mocímboa da Praia , a major stronghold of the insurgency for more than two years has been captured by Rwandan and Mozambican security forces.
(BBC, 8/8/21)
2021 Sep 13, In Mozambique Révocat Karemangingo, a prominent member of the Rwandan refugee community, was shot dead. He had told police there was a plot to kill him.
(Reuters, 9/14/21)
2021 Oct 4, Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi urged Islamist militants in its far north to surrender, saying they had nowhere to run, after allied Rwandan, Mozambican and southern African forces pushed them out of territory they had been occupying.
(Reuters, 10/4/21)
2021 Oct 5, The UN said government forces have rescued abducted children who were forcefully recruited by the Al-Shabab jihadist group in northern Mozambique.
(Reuters, 10/5/21)
2021 Oct 11, In Mozambique Mariano Nyongo, the leader of Renamo military junta, was killed early this morning in fighting between the Defence and Security Forces (FDS) and the insurgents in Sofala province.
(Reuters, 10/11/21)
2021 Nov 30, The Mozambican government said that it had detected two cases of Omicron variant in the country.
(Reuters, 11/30/21)
2021 Dec, Elon Musk's Tesla company signed an agreement with Australia's Syrah Resources, which operates one of the world’s largest graphite mines in Mozambique. Tesla will buy the material from the company's processing plant in Vidalia, Louisiana, which sources graphite from its mine in Balama, Mozambique.
(AP, 1/16/22)
2022 Jan 3, It was reported that Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi and his wife Isaura have tested positive for COVID-19 and are isolating.
(Reuters, 1/3/22)
2022 Jan 12, Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries agreed at a summit to extend their troop deployment in Mozambique to help the government fight an Islamic State-linked insurgency.
(Reuters, 1/12/22)
2022 Jan 25, Mozambique's National Institute for Management and Disaster Risk Reduction said that eight people had died in the prior 24 hours due to tropical storm Ana. The death toll soon rose to 20.
(Reuters, 1/26/22)(AP, 1/26/22)(Reuters, 1/28/22)
2022 Mar 3, Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi fired PM Carlos Agostinho do Rosário, in what appeared to be a major cabinet reshuffle following the sacking of six ministers a day earlier.
(Reuters, 3/3/22)
2022 Mar 11, Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi said at least seven people died as Tropical Cyclone Gombe made early morning landfall packing wind speeds exceeding 200 kmh (125 mph) that pummeled north and central areas of the country. The death toll soon rose to 53.
(Reuters, 3/11/22)(Reuters, 3/17/22)
2022 Mar 18, The WHO said almost 70,000 vaccinators will go door-to-door in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, to give all children under 5 the oral polio vaccine in a $15.7 million campaign funded by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in a bid to prevent a renewed spread of polio.
(Reuters, 3/18/22)
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