Hunting in Africa – to Ban or Not to Ban Is the Question
Hunting has long been a highly controversial activity, whether as a sport (leisure or recreational), for commercial purposes or if done for cultural reasons. African countries that legalize hunting activities experience scrutiny around their conservation efforts, and how much money they make from it. Trophy hunting, which is offered in 23 sub-Saharan African countries, generates […]
Mozambican Prostitutes Return Home, Say ‘Zimbabweans Are Broke’
Sex workers who had camped in the eastern border city after the introduction of the multi-currency regime in 2009 have now moved across the border to Mozambique as business dwindles due to Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown. Again, with locals limited to vending in a jobless economy, many women have turned to prostitution in order to survive, […]
Mozambican Mido Macia trial to continue – Daveyton police plead not guilty
The trial of nine former Daveyton policemen accused of killing Mozambican minibus taxi driver Mido Macia is expected to continue in the High Court in Pretoria on Monday. He died from head and chest injuries, Gauteng chief state pathologist Dr Solly Skosana testified on Friday. His head and jaw were lacerated and swollen. He had […]
Coal India Relinquishing Most of Its Area in Tete
The state-owned Indian mining company Coal India has announced that it is relinquishing 75 per cent of its licence area in Moatize district, in the western Mozambican province of Tete, reports Tuesday’s issue of the “Economic Times” of India. Coal India was granted the A1 and A2 blocks in a previously unexplored part of Moatize […]
Growing up Black, Foreign and Legal in South Africa
On Thursday the 30th of April 2015, I stepped off a taxi coming from the Bree taxi rank in order to make my way toward the MTN taxi rank.I was coming from Greenside, where I work as an intern for a consultancy firm. Immediately, as I stepped onto the curb, I was stopped by an […]
Mozambique to allow homosexuality and abortion
MOZAMBIQUE decriminalised homosexuality on Monday when a new penal code came into force that swept away old Portuguese colonial laws, in a victory for campaigners for gay rights in Africa. The old code, dating back to 1886, targeted anyone “who habitually engages in vices against nature”—but no known prosecutions took place after Mozambique became independent […]
Mozambique Decriminalise Homosexuality – Malawi’s Mutharika to Attend Its Independence Day
Homosexuality will soon be legal in Mozambique as the country will this Thursday be celebrating 40th Independence celebrations to be held in Maputo which Malawi President Peter Mutharika will attend. With the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Mozambique, the number of countries with laws criminalising same-sex activity falls to 78. Malawi, Uganda, Palau, São Tomé and […]
Mozambique to 2018 – Managers, Mediators and Magnates
Mozambique’s ambitious new executive must find ways to bridge a set of gaps: between the core and the periphery; between political parties – established and new; and between the interests of business and the stark fact that Mozambique remains extremely poor, according to a new report. Recent political developments in Mozambique mark the beginning of […]
Mozambique Government, Renamo Reach Deal
The dialogue between the government and the country’s largest opposition party Renamo, now in its 108th round, on 15 June finally achieved consensus on the third point of its agenda, the separation of political parties from the state. The heads of the two delegations, Agriculture Minister Jose Pacheco and Renamo parliamentarian Saimone Macuiana, will sign […]
African Elephant Poaching Hotspots Identified – Research
Most illegally-poached African elephant ivory can be traced back to just two areas of Africa, research shows. Scientists were able to locate the hotspots by matching the DNA fingerprint of seized ivory to DNA profiles from the dung of elephants living throughout the continent. Around 50,000 elephants are thought to be poached each year. The […]
