As the Constitutional Council considers the results of the 28 October general elections, and the appeal against them by the former rebel movement Renamo, one of the issues it will have to consider is the curious case of polling stations

Failure rates in this year's examinations in central Maputo secondary schools are over 80 per cent, and in some classes reached 100 per cent, according to a report on the independent television station STV.

Mozambican Health Minister Ivo Garrido on Tuesday warned African countries not to neglect the problems of regulation and control of the sale of medicines on the continent.

Mozambique's former rebel movement Renamo has accused the ruling Frelimo party and the Mozambican police of conspiring to kidnap or assassinate its leader, Afonso Dhlakama.