Mozambique's northernmost province of Niassa saw its population jump by over 50 per cent between the last two censuses, held in 1997 and 2007.

The Mozambican Health Ministry has insisted that society must become fully involved in activities to promote exclusive breast-feeding, during the first six months of life.

The political delegate of Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, in Lalaua district, in the northern province of Nampula, Alvaro Jamal, has defected to the ruling Frelimo Party, reports Friday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias".

The Northern Development Corridor (CDN), the consortium that manages the Nacala port and rail network in northern Mozambique, will be chaired, as from Monday, by Celso Correia, chairperson of the Insitec group of companies.

The Mozambican Defence Ministry has promised to take disciplinary measures and initiate criminal proceedings against a group of conscripts who rioted in the northern town of Montepuez on Monday night.

The air connection between Maputo and Luanda is expected to start this year in October, revealed Thursday the director of Mozambican airlines company (LAM), Adérito Macaba, to the Mozambican newspaper "Notícias".

African countries "are in a privileged position to reverse the economic crisis", claimed the governor of the Bank of Mozambique, Ernesto Gove, on Thursday.

This year's voter registration has reached over 80 per cent of its target, according to Felisberto Naife, general director of the Electoral Administration Technical Secretariat (STAE), the electoral branch of the Mozambican civil service.

Mozambique's Constitutional Council on Friday officially published the list of candidates for the 28 October presidential elections who presented their nomination papers by the deadline of 29 July.

Members of Parliament yesterday expressed deep concerns over the continued government stand of keeping abortion illegal, with some calling for the total withdrawal of the article from the amended Penal Code.

Bijou, 16, speaks in a soft, low voice as she paints a grim picture of what life is like for a young girl living on the streets of Lubumbashi, the second largest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC.

Charles Taylor today accused the United Nations of making him responsible for the presence of Liberian fighters among rebel forces in Sierra Leone during its 11-year conflict. This misconception, he said, had landed him in jail today.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should emphasize human rights on her seven-nation trip to Africa, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Clinton.

The Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) has accused President Umaru Yar'adua of double standards in the case of the Lagos Councils Development Areas (LCDAs) and of insensitivity in the ongoing sectarian violence in parts of the country.

Sierra Leone in 2007 passed innovative laws aimed at reinforcing women's rights and clamping down on sexual violence, but as the government and social services struggle to implement the laws crimes against women remain rampant, officials say.

Another MDC legislator has been arrested for allegedly playing a song that denigrates Robert Mugabe, on his car radio. The MDC said in a statement that Stewart Garadhi, the MP for Chinhoyi, was driving from Harare to Chinhoyi on Friday

Amnesty International today condemned the illegal killings by the Nigerian security forces during the recent fighting in the north of the country and called on the Inspector General of Police to publicly state that anyone responsible for illegal killings during

The government is being pushed to resign in seven days for failure to deliver a "sound option" for the trial of post-election violence suspects.

The International Criminal Court has been presented with one stark reality: The Kenyan Government has no intention to bring to justice the key figures behind Kenya's post-election descent into anarchy and bloodshed.

The new Moroccan family law was designed to give women equal rights in the family.