Voter registration ahead of the 28 October general elections begins on Friday among Mozambicans resident in the diaspora.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Friday launched in Maputo a new agro-business programme, AgriFUTURO, intended to improve the competitiveness of Mozambican private sector agriculture.

The seven member countries of SADC (Southern African Development Community) who share the Zambezi basin, have expressed support for the construction of a new dam on the Zambezi at Mepanda Nkua, in the western Mozambican province of Tete.

Despite promises made a week ago by Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, there is still no sign of the long-awaited Renamo Congress.

The general director of the Electoral Administration Technical Secretariat (STAE), the electoral arm of the Mozambican civil service, Felisberto Naife, has dismissed as "absurd" the attempt by the former rebel movement Renamo to prosecute STAE over irregularities in the current

Farmers in six African countries - Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Sierra Leone - may be unable to grow maize by 2050, researchers have predicted.

Cape Coast, the former colonial capital, on Thursday afternoon went agog as both the aged and the youth trooped to the Victoria Park (Jubilee Park) to catch a glimpse of the United States of America Airforce helicopters, which have been

Military forces from 20 countries in West and Central Africa have launched a regional HIV network to share information on combating HIV within their ranks and communities, following the example of other military-led efforts to fight the spread of HIV.

The detained leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Mr. Henry Okah, yesterday accepted to benefit from Federal Government's unconditional amnesty for Niger Delta militants.

The Government has until September 30 to prove that it is committed to setting up of the special tribunal to try perpetrators of the 2008 post election violence, failure to which the International Criminal Court (ICC) might take over prosecutions.

THE Kimberly Process (KP) investigating team that visited Zimbabwe last week has produced a damning interim report implicating the government in human rights violations and looting of gems at Chiadzwa diamond fields in Manicaland, The Financial Gazette can reveal.

Côte d'Ivoire's political parties have the responsibility for ensuring that much-delayed presidential elections, now scheduled to take place on 29 November, are held on time and are free, fair and transparent, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says, urging them to act appropriately.

It is clear that grave violations of international human rights and humanitarian law - possibly amounting to war crimes - are being committed in strife-torn Somalia, a top United Nations official said today.

The army and the police will not withdraw from the Chiadzwa diamond fields, but will remain there to maintain 'law and order', a state controlled newspaper said on Friday.

For us as Africans, today represents a momentous day in history. The arrival in Accra, the Ghanaian capital, of an America president of African descent, in the person of Barack Obama, is a moment many could not have reasonably expected

THE government yesterday approved N20.6 billion for the striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other federal educational institutions to stem a barrage of industrial actions in the education sector.

President Umaru Yar'adua has ordered the release of militant leader Henry Okah, who is currently standing trial for alleged gun-running and treason, after reports said Okah has accepted the president's offer of amnesty.

Leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND), Mr Henry Okah, who is standing secret trial in Jos, Plateau State, on the charge of treason, yesterday, bowed to pressure from leaders of the Niger-Delta when he finally