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August 13th, 2008

Mozambique: Light at the end of the tunnel

Amilcar da Paz · 19:32

lingua → pt · es

Sweden and Switzerland have announced budget support cuts to Mozambique, over claims of lack of progress from the country's government in fighting corruption. Was it actually better for the country? Amílcar da Paz finds it out in a thought-provoking article by Mozambican Sociologist Elísio Macamo. 0 comments · »»

August 2nd, 2008

Mozambique: 2038?

Paula Góes · 10:21

lingua → pt · fr · es · sw

What will Mozambique be like in 30 years? Sociologist Carlos Serra provides nine "Byzantine" scenarios and invites his readers to amend them as they see fit 0 comments · »»

July 18th, 2008

Nelson Mandela, 90 years

Paula Góes · 20:05

lingua → es · mg

Nelson Mandela is 90 years old today and the celebrations have crossed the borders of South Africa to make the world sing happy birthday and clap hands together. Join the celebrations with this round up of many happy returns from the African continent. 3 comments · »»

April 25th, 2008

Lusosphera: Remembering the Carnation Revolution

Paula Góes · 22:03

lingua → pt · es

On April 25 1974, 34 years today, Portugal's 40-year fascist dictatorship, the longest in the history of Western Europe, came to an end with the Carnation Revolution, which also brought independence for the remaining colonies in Africa and Asia. Today Portuguese speaking bloggers from all over the world comment and celebrate. 1 comment · »»

March 11th, 2008

Madagascar: Lessons learned after 3rd severe tropical cyclone in a month

Lova Rakotomalala · 15:36

lingua → mg · mk · bn · es · zht · zhs · sq

Since late January, 3 severe tropical cyclones have affected Madagascar tremendously, the latest being cyclone Jokwe who made landfall in the northern region of Madagascar, destroying 40 homes and leaving 400 people stranded in Nosy-be. The city of Antsiranana was also affected but not as extensively and Jokwe is now ... 2 comments · »»

February 6th, 2008

Mozambique: Riot organized via SMS is covered by bloggers

Paula Góes · 19:27

lingua → pt

Three people died and more than 250 were injured in a riot yesterday in Maputo, part of a protest against the increase in fares charged by the private minibus operators from the Mozambican capital. This unprecedented manifestation was organized through SMS and covered by bloggers, while local TV stations were mostly showing soap operas and the radios broadcasting football. 17 comments · »»

December 31st, 2007

Lusosphere: Wishes and hopes for 2008

Paula Góes · 11:16

lingua → pt · es

The new year is inevitably soon arriving and the Lusosphere is booming with posts about traditions, resolutions, wishes, and reflections. Here is a short roundup of Portuguese speaking blogs from Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Mozambique and Portugal - although countries far apart, they share the language and hopes for a better future. 0 comments · »»

July 17th, 2007

Lusophony Day: Learning Through Connectedness

Jose Murilo Junior · 14:10

lingua → pt

We wanted to celebrate the Lusophony Day, as an opportunity to post about the recent launching of the Global Voices website in Portuguese. A quick googling around the keywords brought up the July 17th inspired on CPLP's foundation, but as we kept searching other dates appeared like the May 31st ... 1 comment · »»

Links about Mozambique

August 12th, 2008

Jest nas Wielu [pt] is helping to spread the news about a petition demanding an immediate ceasefire and the removal of Russian troops off Georgian territories.

August 3rd, 2008

Paulo Granjo [pt] criticizes a redundant local campaign in Mozambique to motivate woman to breast-feed, already a popular habit, which can have disastrous consequences in a country plaged by AIDS. “The most basic common sense is to detect HIV in pregnant women as early as possible, to provide them with caesarean section and provide them with the conditions not to breast-feed, because the vast majority of them will not have money for milk powder or knowledge about needs and sterilizing feeding bottles.”

July 31st, 2008

Elísio Macamo [pt], a sociologist from Mozambique, writes up an article to try to answer a question put by a reader: “How do we re-introduce quality debate about politics in our society?”

July 28th, 2008

Custódio Duma [pt] comments on the news that Mozambique's Defence Minister Filipe Nyussi was evacuated to South Africa after having his arm injured in a traffic accident. “Last week I heard the Health Minister say at the RDP Africa that Maputo Central Hospital has now world-class wards… So: Why is that our leaders almost never use this Hospital?”

July 10th, 2008

O Silêncio de Kianda [pt] brings a good piece of news that shows people's creativity in face of food crises: bread made of cassava instead of wheat. “Nampula [a province of Mozambique] produces three million tons of cassava per year, which has proved to be enough to sustain the bakery business and consumption of the population”

May 31st, 2008

“Ultimately, we have not yet reached the time when the South African government will acknowledged, unequivocally, its responsibility for this whole issue. With empty thoughts and a huge incapacity for self-criticism (as a first step), the South African regime, apparently, carries on burying their head in the sand.” Agry [pt] comments on the news of the return of the victims of xenophobia to Mozambique.

“With the increase in the price of petrol, it is very clever to begin thinking about getting the old bike out of bottom of the garage. There are only advantages. It does not pollute, and it also saves you a lot on gym (fees)”. Go to Toix [pt] blog to see the amusing picture he used to illustrate this post.

May 30th, 2008

Elísio Macamo [pt] reacts to the Japanese pledge to help Africa double rice production within 10 years, during the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) held in Yokohama. “After 10 years the rice production in Africa is twice as much. Will the population remain the same? Will our tastes be the same? Our lifestyle, will it be the same?”.