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Africa Investigates: Mozambique’s Gem Wars

AMA — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:17:25 +0000

Six years ago local hunters stumbled on one of the world’s largest deposit of rubies in the northern province of Mozambique, a potential source of riches for a country in which much of the population lives on less than a dollar a day. The deposits are now being mined by a local company, Mwriti, in [...]

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#Africa > Mozambique declares itself free of landmines

AMA — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 08:05:18 +0000

Mozambique has declared itself free of landmines, ending two decades of work to rid the country of a legacy of war that killed or maimed thousands of people, many of them civilians. A British charity, the HALO Trust, said on Thursday that it had cleared more than 171,000 landmines from 1,100 minefields in Mozambique since [...]

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South Africa Police Officers guilty of Mozambican Man’s Murder

AMA — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 20:05:33 +0000

Eight South African police officers have been found guilty of murdering a Mozambican man who died after being dragged behind a moving police van two years ago. Mido Macia, a 27-year-old taxi driver, died in police custody in February, 2013 after being arrested for parking his car on the wrong side of the road. Bystanders [...]

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IOM launches Christmas HIV Awareness for Mozambican mine workers back from South Africa

apofeed — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:05:02 +0000

GENEVA, Switzerland, December 17, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM organizes, this week, an HIV awareness and testing campaign for mine workers returning from the South African gold and platinum mines for the holidays. The campaign, which also marks International Migrants’ Day on December 18th, will be done in Ressano Garcia border town, a thriving [...]

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Mozambican plane wreck found in Namibia, all 33 on board dead

Adewale A. — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 18:05:05 +0000

Police on Saturday found the burned wreckage of a Mozambican Airlines plane a day after it went missing in a remote area in northeastern Namibia, saying none of the 33 people aboard from several countries had survived. It is one of the worst accidents…

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