LONDON (Reuters) - Mozambique capital Maputo is hotting up as a magnet for companies aspiring to be significant South African coal exporters, following a Vitol joint venture deal, industry sources said on Wednesday. The port has been used on a small scale for coal exports which shippers were unable to move from the main export hub, Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT), but is now the centre of ...

[AIM] Maputo - The Maputo police detained a Mozambican businessman of Indian origin for about eight hours on Saturday, as part of the investigations into the wave of kidnappings in the capital, reports Tuesday's issue of the independent daily "O Pais".

AIM (Maputo)-Africa is now at "a make-it or break-it moment" in the response to the HIV-AIDS epidemic, according to Michael Sidibe, the Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).

[AIM] Maputo - Cyclone Giovanna, as of Tuesday morning, was over central Madagascar, and heading in a south-westerly direction towards the Mozambique Channel, according to the National Meteorology Institute (INAM).

[AIM] Maputo - Another cyclone is heading for the Mozambican coast and could hit Inhambane province on Saturday.

[AIM] Maputo - The Forum of Mozambican Demobilised Soldiers has announced that it will hold a further demonstration in Maputo next Tuesday, to put pressure on the government to accept its demands.

Mozambique is a poor nation with a lot of potential. It just needs to harness it, writes Barry Wood.

Maputo is heating up as a magnet for companies aspiring to be significant South African coal exporters, following a Vitol joint venture deal.

[AIM] Maputo - The Mozambican police have complained that the families of businessmen of Asian origin kidnapped by criminal gangs are not cooperating in the investigation - but prominent members of the Asian community claim that some policemen are involved in the kidnappings.

Whether to the east through Mozambique or west through Nambia, landlocked Botswana has a number of issues to consider before making the billion pula decision on its rail connection to the sea. However, both routes are problematic, and whatever decision the government of Botswana makes,