Mozambique

Mozambique

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  Expert: Rhino population wiped out in Mozambique

  Mozambique's rhinoceros population was wiped out more than a century ago by big game hunters. Reconstituted several years ago, the beasts again are ... 

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  South Africa: fight over rhino poaching escalates

  A U.S. firm recently gave smart phones to some game rangers in South Africa to help them track poachers who kill rhinos for their horns. 

• At least 7 dead in Mozambique violence

  Mozambican authorities say they have made some arrests after recent attacks and fighting between police and alleged members of an opposition group ... 

• Italy's ENI sells Africa gas stake to China

  Italian oil producer ENI says it has sold a 20 percent stake in a gas field in Mozambique in southern Africa to China's biggest state-owned energy ... 

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  Funeral held for Mozambican taxi driver

  Mourners in Mozambique have held a funeral for a taxi driver who died in a South African police cell after he was dragged from a police vehicle in a ... 

• Mozambique floods: Death toll rises to 55

  The United Nations says the death toll from the flooding in Mozambique has risen by seven to at least 55 people. The U.N. said Thursday that heavy ... 

• Flood waters recede in Mozambique

  Flood waters have begun receding in Mozambique, and residents have started returning to the worst-hit city. The United Nations Resident Coordinator ... 

• UN: Mozambique floods displace 150k, leave 38 dead

  A U.N. official in flood-hit Mozambique says at least $15 million in aid is needed to help after flood waters have killed 38 people and displaced ... 

• Mozambique: Man guilty in journalist's death freed

  A judge in Mozambique has ordered the release of a businessman convicted of ordering the 2000 murder of one of the country's top investigative ... 

• Rio Tinto CEO departs after $14BN write-down

  The chief executive of mining giant Rio Tinto PLC and another senior executive are stepping down immediately after the company announced a $14 billion ... 

• Mozambique highway collision kills 14

  Police in Mozambique say 14 people died when a tire burst on a speeding minibus, causing the driver to lose control and collide with an oncoming ... 

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  New inquiry in '86 crash killing Mozambique leader

  South African police have opened a new investigation into the 1986 airplane crash that killed Mozambique's Marxist president and more than 20 others, ... 

• Brazilian company to build $1B railroad in Malawi

  Malawi plans to break ground on a $1 billion new railway line in the country to ferry both passengers and minerals through the nation. A statement ... 

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  Rhino killings for horns rapidly rise in S. Africa

  By the time ranchers found the rhinoceros calf wandering alone in this idyllic setting of scrub brush and acacia, the nature reserve had become yet ...