Mozambique Mozambique experienced almost five centuries as a Portuguese colony before it became independent in 1975. The country has had a difficult time in developing, largely due to economic dependence on South Africa, a severe drought, and a...

Republic of Mozambique República Popular de Moçambique CAPITAL: Maputo (formerly Lourenço Marques) FLAG: The flag consists of broad stripes of green, black, and yellow, separated by narrow bands of white. Extending from the hoist...

Mozambique POPULATION 19,607,519 AFRICAN INDIGENOUS BELIEFS 49.5 percent CHRISTIAN 30 percent MUSLIM 20 percent HINDU 0.5 percent Country Overview Introduction The Republic of Mozambique lies on the southeastern coast of Africa. It is bordered to the...

Mozambique was a colony of Portugal for more than two hundred years. Following Mozambique's independence from Portugal in the early 1970s, the white minority governments of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and South Africa, began to fund and direct a...

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique (Portuguese: Moçambique or República de Moçambique, pron. IPA: [ʁɛ'publikɐ dɨ musɐ̃'bikɨ]), is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north,...

Mozambican authorities seized thousands of boxes of counterfeit toothpaste that they fear may contain a potentially deadly chemical, state radio said Sunday.The health ministry banned all sales of "Colgate Maximum Cavity Protection" toothpaste and ordered storekeepers to remove it from their shelves.The fake toothpaste _...

Water released through floodgates at a mighty dam in northern Mozambique is worsening floods that have already killed dozens of people and swept away hundreds of homes, the prime minister said Friday.Torrential rains have unleashed devastating floods in southern Africa since January, submerging roads, damaging...

A fire broke out and explosions rocked Mozambique's national weapons depot in the capital on Thursday, killing at least nine people and sending thousands streaming from their homes in panic, officials said.President Armando Guebuza appealed for calm on national television as firefighters and military officials...

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, officials said Monday.Prime Minister Luisa Diogo ordered the forcible removal of people in low-lying areas...