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Zimbabweans can expect to spend more time in the dark after the Mozambique power utility company...suspended supplies to Zimbabwe over an outstanding debt of US$26 million. This development was confirmed in a report in the state run Herald newspaper. Zimbabwe’s power imports have been falling for various reasons. South Africa’s Eskom has stopped supplies claiming "some operational hitches" at its power-generating plants. The Democratic Republic of Congo has also stopped power supplies to Zimbabwe because of ‘problems with it’s transmission network.’ Analysts say the real reason these countries have cut Zimbabwe off is because of unpaid debts. Critics say the...

Today President Bush spoke at the rededication of the Islamic Center of Washington. (Transcript) Returning to the White House, the president met with experts to discuss how individual citizens can (and should) have the power to make their own health care decisions, not the government. He spoke about this later in the Roosevelt Room. (Transcript) First Lady Laura Bush continued her tour of Africa, arriving in Maputo, Mozambique. There, Mrs. Bush met with President Armando Guebuza and toured US funded facilities that are fighting malaria and AIDS while helping the victims of those diseases. Back home, Secretary of State Condoleezza...

Maputo, Mozambique (LifeNews.com) -- The government of the African nation of Mozambique is about ready to introduce a bill in the nation's legislature to legalize abortion and observers say the measure will likely pass The government claims abortion should be legalized because of the number of women who supposedly die from illegal abortions. .That comes even though legalizing abortion hasn't made it safer in industrialized nations. The Mozambique law prohibiting abortions except to save the life of the mother dates back to the 19th century when Catholic Portuguese people led the nation. Nowadays, abortion is seen as anathema to both...

Maputo, Mozambique (LifeNews.com) -- Lawmakers in Mozambique are considering a bill that would legalize abortions in this nation in the southern part of Africa. They say they must make abortion legal to reduce the number of deaths associated with illegal abortions, even though making abortion legal doesn't make it safer for women. The law prohibiting abortions except to save the life of the mother dates back to the 19th century when Catholic Portuguese people led the nation. Nowadays, abortion is seen as anathema to both African culture as well as the religious values of the people of the country, who...

Explosion of a deposit of weapons with Maputo: 72 died, 360 wounded MAPUTO - At least 72 people were killed and 360 wounded Thursday during the explosion of the largest deposit of weapons of Mozambique, close to the international airport to Maputo, one announced official source. “On the whole, it there has 72 died”, declared the Minister for Health Ivo Garrido on television national TVM. “There are approximately 360 wounded”, it added, specifying that it was about a provisional assessment. Explosions in series of bombs, mines and ammunition began little before fallen the night towards 18h00 (16h00 GMT) and...

Heidi Baker Emergency Update: She says bombs are hitting their church and their children's center with children in it—PRAY! NOTE FROM EDITORIAL STAFF [of The Elijah List http://www.elijahlist.com ]: We are all asking for you to please stop and pray right now, many precious people are in extreme danger! —Steve Shultz, Aimee Herd, Jessica L. Miller, Julie Smith, Terry Lea, Jeris Cribbs and all the Elijah List and Elijah Rain family. The following update was sent out by Iris Ministries. Heidi asked me to contact you for prayer as bombs have detonated in our capitol city Maputo, Mozambique. Three bombs...

Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa have opened the borders between parks in all three countries to create the largest transnational game park in Africa. The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, which is expected to eventually grow to cover 16,000 square miles, combines South Africa's Kruger National Park, Mozambique's Limpopo National Park and Zimbabwe's Gonarezhou National Park, The Times of London reported Thursday. The presidents of all three countries gathered to witness the opening of the Giriyondo border between the Kruger and Limpopo parks. "The Giriyondo access facility ... is just the beginning of a new era when we will bring down...

29.05.2006, 14.24 Ekaterinburg, 29 May. Sixteen countries have confirmed their attendance in the 5th International Armaments Show in Nizhnyj Tagil. More than 200 foreigners are expected to attend. Some of the countries attending include the Czech Republic, POLAND, China, Switzerland, Venezuela, Sweden, Iran, Bulgaria, and Mozambique. The show will be held from 11 to 15 July, 2006.

MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) -- A powerful earthquake struck Mozambique early Thursday morning, shaking buildings and forcing people from hundreds of miles around to dash into the streets for safety. There were no early reports of injuries. The magnitude-7.5 quake struck at 12:19 a.m. in southern Mozambique, 140 miles southwest of the coastal city of Beira, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The temblor was felt in the neighboring nations of Zimbabwe and Zambia and as far south as Durban, South Africa, 800 miles away. Elias Daudi, Mozambique's national director of energy, said on state radio that authorities still do not have...

Magnitude 6.9 MOZAMBIQUE Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 22:19:08 UTC The following is a release by the United States Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center: A strong earthquake occurred IN MOZAMBIQUE, about 225 km (140 miles) SW of Beira or about 530 km (330 miles) N of MAPUTO at 3:19 PM MST, Feb 22, 2006 (Feb 23 at 12:19 AM local time in Mozambique). The magnitude and location may be revised when additional data and further analysis results are available. No reports of damage or casualties have been received at this time; however, this earthquake may have caused damage due...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Attacks on humans by man-eating lions are on the rise in Tanzania and Mozambique, raising the stakes in the conservation game as environmentalists strive to save the big cats from extinction. Lions in the area have developed a taste for human flesh because people have been sleeping outdoors to protect their crops from raiding bushpigs, which the cats follow onto croplands, a leading expert said. "In Tanzania in the early 1990s there were about 40 recorded lion attacks a year. In the past couple of years they have risen to over 100 and about 70 percent are...

Could you change a nation by yourself? Heidi Baker is doing it – without political clout or decent funding. When she arrived in bleak, war-ravaged Mozambique in 1995, this American missionary had a few resources, but God told her to give away everything she owned and go sit by the side of the road. (She doesn't "hear voices"; she just has sharp spiritual ears.) So there she sat in the dirt, homeless, a 5'4" blonde with a Ph.D. in systematic theology from the University of London ... and little else beside the clothes on her back. "Great plan, Lord," she...

FORMER US president Bill Clinton arrived in Mozambique early today on the first leg of a six-nation Africa tour aimed at boosting his foundation's work in the fight against AIDS on the continent, a spokesman said. Clinton Foundation spokesman Joachim Salvador told AFP the former president had arrived, and an earlier press release said he would visit the pediatric section of Maputo Central Hospital later today. Some 300 children with HIV and AIDS are being treated with anti-retroviral drugs at the hospital, which is a beneficiary of Clinton Foundation funds. Ira Magaziner, who heads the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative, said...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. President Bush says increased U.S.-African trade is helping to promote democracy and opportunity across the African continent. Mr. Bush spoke in Washington Monday after meeting with the presidents of Botswana, Ghana, Mozambique, Namibia and Niger. He praised the five men as democrats who have taken advantage of the African Growth and Opportunity Act. The 2000 law gives African nations greater access to the U.S. market if they show respect for rule of law and human rights. Mr. Bush said the five presidents are doing just that - and noted that African...

Now that Africa is getting an influx of cash to pay off debts, President Bush is pushing for an influx of democracy on the troubled continent. The United States and others of the Group of Eight major industrialized nations agreed Saturday to eliminate more than $40 billion of debt owed by 18 of the world's poorest nations as part of a British-led effort to lift Africa out of poverty. Bush was to follow up on the agreement by playing host Monday to leaders of five countries that held democratic elections last year. "At a time when freedom is on the...

Xai-Xai, Mozambique There's a church in southern Mozambique that is about 10 yards long, with a tin roof and walls made of sticks. Women gather there to sing and pray and look after the orphans of AIDS victims. When you ask those women and their pastor what they tell people to prevent the spread of AIDS, the first thing they say is that it's important to use condoms. They also talk about the consequences of unsafe sex. But after a while they slip out of the language of safety and into a different language. They say, "It is easier for...

Ballots are still being counted in Mozambique's general election, but early returns broadcast on state radio show ruling party candidate Armando Guebuza leading his main rival. Opposition contender Afonso Dhlakama says few votes have been counted in his strongholds, and he believes he will emerge victorious. One of the main international observers, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, told a small group of reporters that the two days of voting appear to have been "almost perfect." President Carter gave preliminary approval to the way voting was conducted, despite concerns over the low voter turnout. President Carter said he and his observers...

Okay. I am sitting in my living watching the History channel (sweats, no pajamas. Sorry) program Tales of the Gun on the AK-47. They were showing its history and evolution and they got to one point in the program and showed this:The flag of MozambiqueNow is it just me or are John F'n and Mama T two of the biggest hypocrits to ever come down the pike! He owns a Chinese AK-47 assault weapon and she, by an accident of birth and claiming to be African-American, claims allegance to a country that has an AK-47 on its national flag.Both of...

With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2004 12:13 p.m. EST Teresa Heinz Kerry: I'm an 'African American'First lady wannabe Teresa Heinz Kerry sometimes describes herself as an "African American," even though she grew up amidst segregated privilege in colonial Mozambique. "My roots are African," she told a reporter in 1995. "The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African." Throughout the 1990s, Heinz Kerry referred to herself as "African American," the Baltimore Sun revealed on Tuesday. And when her use of the term set off a...

For the first time, researchers say, a vaccine against malaria has shown that it can save children from infection or death. The vaccine, tested on thousands of children in Mozambique, was hardly perfect: It protected them from catching the disease only about 30 percent of the time and prevented it from becoming life-threatening only about 58 percent of the time. But because malaria kills more than a million people a year, 700,000 of them children, even partial protection would be a public health victory. The disease, caused by a parasite carried by mosquitoes, is found in 90 countries, and drug-resistant...

MIDI - WOOLY BULLY - 1st version This loony woman...had come from Mozambique The more you see...you know she's a freak Terri Kerry, Terri Kerry...Terri Kerry, Terri Kerry, Terri Kerry She says to shove it...when the wrong question's asked She has the bucks...to have the guy whacked Terri Kerry, Terri Kerry...Terri Kerry, Terri Kerry, Terri Kerry Just like her husband...of herself she is full First lady? NO!...that's unthinkable Terri Kerry, Terri Kerry...Terri Kerry, Terri Kerry, Terri Kerry

She left Mozambique more than four decades ago, first for South Africa, where as an energetic, church-going teen-ager she attended boarding school, then for Geneva to study languages at a translation school, before coming to America in the 1960s to marry Pennsylvania millionaire and future U.S. Sen. John Heinz III. (He died in a plane crash in 1991; she married Kerry in 1995.) Instead of a thatch-roof hut, she can choose to sleep in any one of her numerous homes, including a ski lodge in Idaho and an estate in Pittsburgh. She owns her own jet, manages a fortune equal...

Teresa Heinz Kerry was born in Mozambique in 1938 and lived as a priveledged colonialist in a social system that used forced labor (government sanctioned slavery)until the revolution of 1960. The Mozambique system was so bad during her life time that 250,000 blacks per year FLED TO SOUTH AFRICA to work in the gold mines. She was sent off to college in South Africa when things got bad in Mozambique. Her father only left after everything he owned was siezed by the new revolutionary government. It's all in this very long article. Teresa has created various myths to insulate her...

Teresa Heinz Kerry: 'I'm an African American' First lady-wannabe Teresa Heinz Kerry sometimes describes herself as an "African American," even though she grew up amidst segregated privilege in colonial Mozambique. "My roots are African," she told a reporter in 1995. "The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African." Throughout the 1990s, Heinz Kerry referred to herself as "African American," the Baltimore Sun revealed on Tuesday. And when her use of the term set off a firestorm of controversy in 1993, she defended the claim. "African-hyphen-American belongs to blacks," Heinz Kerry's spokesman told reporters, insisting...

MOZAMBIQUE, February 3, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Zenit.org reports that five missionary nuns working in Mozambique have revealed a gruesome network trafficking in human organs that involves kidnap and murder of child victims and the complicity of police. In a report revealed by the Catholic aid agency, Veritas, the nuns described "kidnappings and multiple killings of persons, many times children, victims of an organ trafficking network." The nuns have received death threats for uncovering the network and report that they have already themselves escaped four attempts at ambush. The nuns were able to gather in the information because the operation was...

Threats Linked to Uncovering of Organ-Trafficking NetworkWomen Religious in Mozambique Report Ambush AttacksMADRID, Spain, FEB. 2, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Five women religious working in Mozambique say they have received death threats after they uncovered an organ-trafficking scheme that kidnaps and kills children and youths. The religious -- four from Spain and one from Brazil -- have been missionaries in the Nampula area of this southeastern African nation for 30 years. According to a report they wrote, they have escaped four ambush attacks, after having reported to the local authorities the "kidnappings and multiple killings of persons, many times children, victims of...

Five missionary nuns in Mozambique say they've been threatened with death since telling authorities about an organ-trafficking scheme that allegedly kidnaps and kills children and youths, reports Catholic news service Zenit. Quoting the Spanish Catholic agency Veritas, Zenit reported the women have escaped four ambush attacks after revealing information about "kidnappings and multiple killings of persons, many times children, victims of an organ trafficking network." The news agency says the story was corroborated by a missionary who asked to be identified only as "D.J." The women – four from Spain and one from Brazil – have been missionaries in the...

CORBIS BETTMAN CANDID CONSORT: Teresa with Kerry Teresa on the Stump Mrs. Kerry is worth a fortune, but her real value to the campaign is her bluntness By KAREN TUMULTY Posted Sunday, February 1, 2004Santa Fe, N.M., has its share of hangouts for the megarich. The Guadalajara Grill, a strip-mall café decorated with balloons in the shape of beer bottles, isn't one of them. But places like that are part of the territory if your husband is running for President. That is how Teresa Heinz Kerry, conservatively estimated to be worth $500 million or so, happened to find herself...

White Zimbabwean commercial farmers have created more than 4,000 jobs in neighbouring Mozambique, where they settled after being ousted from their land back home, a regional governor said on Tuesday. "The Zimbabwean farmers with about 1,000ha of land each have so far generated a total of 4,118 new jobs," said Soares Nhaca, governor of the central Mozambican province of Manica, where the farmers settled. Nhaca said there are about 100 Zimbabwean farmers in the fertile districts of Manica province, growing traditional cash crops such as tobacco, cotton and maize. Most of the new jobs are on tobacco farms, the governor...

The Coast Guard intercepted and boarded the ship, 'Athena' off the coast, then escorted it upriver to be docked. Since it docked at the Port of Longview Friday, it's been under constant surveillance from a Coast Guard Gunboat with Coast Guard and customs agents watching from shore. Just down river from the ship, fishermen Mike Young and Gerald Senesac reel in their catch and wonder why the cargo ship is being guarded. "With guns ready, there's got to be something different than what the government's saying," says Senesac. KATU's Dan Tilkin learned a few details about the ship: Before the...

The Tanzanian tanker, "M. T. Beacon", that disappeared from the northern Mozambican port of Nacala about a month ago, carrying 882,020 tonnes of fuel, is yet to return, reports Tuesday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias". The fuel, worth about 345,000 US dollars, was to be delivered to Quelimane, the capital of Zambezia province, to supply the central region of the country, and there must now be fears that it has been stolen. The vessel, hired by the Mozambican company ADECNEL from the Tanzanian firm M.C.J. Shipping, left the port without authorisation, during the night, after it was discovered that...

Blantyre - The Mozambican government has ordered that genetically modified maize destined for Malawi be covered with plastic to avoid contaminating their crops. The maize is shipped from America and transported to Malawi by truck as part of the food aid being given to the famine stricken country by the world food programme (WFP). South African-based WFP spokesperson Luis Clemens said they had held talks after the Mozambican government expressed concern that their yields might be contaminated by the US maize. Clemens said they had reached an agreement to cover the maize to avoid spillage and dismissed claims that thousands...

About 18 months ago our daughter and son-in-law made a decision to set up a farming business near Chimoio. As parents we were concerned for their future but are now immensely proud of their achievements. It was an old Portuguese farm 8 km out of Chimoio on a shocking road. The soil, however, is deep and fertile. The only assets were a typical Portuguese-style house, a small dam, a single tractor, a borehole and a diesel generator. Many trips were made to move furniture, irrigation equipment, vehicles, implements, tomato and cabbage seedlings and, most important of all, the satellite dish....

Maputo - Mozambique's government has agreed to allow at least 13 white Zimbabwean commercial farmers to settle in the fertile central province of Manica, the agriculture ministry said on Monday. Each of the farmers will be given 1 000 hectares of land, in line with Mozambican law that only allows land to be leased for up to 50 years, the ministry of agriculture and rural development said in a statement. Mozambican law does not allow land to be sold. Two farmers were allotted land near the administrative post of Mavonde, 10 in Barue district, and one near the administrative post...

Maputo - Mozambique has learnt the hard way from two years of devastating floods and is now managing to avoid widespread famine, even as 13 million people in other southern African countries face starvation. "Mozambicans have been so hit by catastrophe that they now ride them well," said a European diplomat based in Maputo. "Mozambique shows the paradox for a country used to natural disasters, but less affected than others in the region," he said. In its June 4 report on Mozambique, the UN's World Food Program (WFP) said grain production would actually rise in 2002 to 1.7 million tons,...