MOZAMBIQUE: Cholera spreads in central provinces
JOHANNESBURG, 11 November 2008 (IRIN) - Fears that cholera may be spreading throughout central Mozambique has forced the government to issue the highest state of alert.
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DRC: What will stop the fighting?
JOHANNESBURG, 10 November 2008 (IRIN) - A pledge by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to complement UN peacekeeping forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with SADC soldiers does not take account of the regional body's limited military capacity, a military analyst told IRIN.
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MOZAMBIQUE: "The issue of natural disasters is very worrying"
MAPUTO, 20 October 2008 (IRIN) - In a country as poor and vulnerable as Mozambique, extreme climatic events can push entire communities to the brink of disaster. Unable to recover from the multiple impacts of floods, cyclones and drought, they are often sent into a downward spiral of poverty.
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MOZAMBIQUE: "We keep going round until everyone knows a cyclone is coming"
CHIGUIDELE, 17 October 2008 (IRIN) - Mozambique is struck by devastating floods and cyclones almost every year, but investments in preparedness, early warning and communication at community level are saving lives.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: The economic future may be darker
JOHANNESBURG, 16 October 2008 (IRIN) - Africa's marginalisation in the global financial system will not spare it the repercussions of the market meltdown affecting the rest of the world, but how hard its economies will be hit is unclear.
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MOZAMBIQUE: "We cannot live here because the floods come quickly"
DEDA, 16 October 2008 (IRIN) - Manuel Fanso, 51, went back to the riverbank to earn his living as a fisherman after the floodwaters receded. Up to 300,000 people in river communities throughout central Mozambique were displaced in early 2008, and his family has moved to higher ground.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: "Sunny and dry" is an unwelcome forecast
JOHANNESBURG, 25 September 2008 (IRIN) - At least six countries in Southern Africa could receive poor rainfall during the critical planting season starting next month, says an early forecast for the 2008/09 agricultural season.
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MOZAMBIQUE-ZIMBABWE: The commodities lifeline
HARARE, 11 September 2008 (IRIN) - It is 7 a.m. at the main long-distance bus terminus in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare. The roof-rack of a battered 75-seater bus is piled high with goods, from bales of dried tobacco leaves to reed mats, in preparation for the 24-hour journey southeast to the town of Sango, in Chiredzi district on the Mozambican border.
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MOZAMBIQUE: The goal is clean water for all
MAPUTO, 10 September 2008 (IRIN) - Each morning Sophia Santos wakes up early, picks up two 20-litre plastic containers and walks to a neighbour's house in Polana Caniço 'A', a sprawling suburb in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, for a day's supply of water.
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Mozambique: Cheap rail travel boosts cross-border trade
MAPUTO, 4 September 2008 (IRIN) - Angelina Sidumo is one of the hundreds of traders that throng the busy train station in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, on most Wednesday afternoons to catch the once-weekly train south to Chicualacuala town in Gaza Province, an 18-hour journey covering nearly 500km.
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