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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)
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)
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 with a firm Marxist
orientation.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A10)
1980 Apr 1, The southern African
Development Coordination Conference was established by 9 countries with
the Lusaka declaration (Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique,
Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe). On August 17, 1992, it was
transformed into the Southern African Development Community. By 2008 it
included 15 members.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_African_Development_Community)
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 A peace accord ended 17 years
of civil war during which some 600,000 people were killed.
(SFC, 6/25/96, p.A8)(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 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)
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.
(AP, 1/31/03)
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)
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)
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