Maputo, 4 May 2009 — Mozambican President Armando Guebuza declared on Thursday 30 April, that the battle against poverty can only be won with the "active and conscious" participation of all workers.

Maputo,4 May 2009 — Over 100 people are known to have died of hunger in Mozambique in the year ending 31 March 2009, according to the Deputy National Director of Agricultural Services, Marcelo Chaquisse.

Maputo, 14 April 209— Mozambique's first lady, Maria da Luz Guebuza, said on Tuesday that the country should review the way in which messages about preventing HIV infection are conveyed.

Speaking at the locality of Ndlala, in the southernmost district of Matutuine, as she wound up a four day tour of Maputo province, Guebuza said the age of the people giving the message was an important factor.

Maputo,14 April 2009 — Over the past four years, the Mozambican gross domestic product has grown at an average rate of 7.7 per cent a year, and GDP per capita has risen from 301 US dollars in 2004 to 473 dollars in 2008, according to the Minister of Planning and Development, Aiuba Cuereneia.

Cuereneia was speaking on Wednesday, 25th in the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, in response to a request from deputies of the ruling Frelimo Party for information on the government's strategy for the fight against poverty.

Maputo,14 April 2009 — "The education of girls is the condition for our survival as a people and for our economic triumph", declared Mozambican Education Minister Aires Aly on Wednesday 25th of March .

Speaking in the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, in response to a request from opposition deputies for information on the measures the government is taking to improve education, Aly said that substantial progress has been made in increasing the number of girls attending school.

Maputo 14 April 2009— As in many other countries, HIV/AIDS is a serious threat to Mozambique's prison population, Justice Minister Benvinda Levy warned on Monday , at the opening in Maputo of a National Seminar on Prison Health.She pointed out that international statistics show a rate of HIV prevalence inside prisons ranging from twice to 50 times the rate among the general population. "This presents significant challenges to the prison and public health authorities", she said.

The current size of the Mozambican prison population is around 14,000. This is 67 per 100,000 inhabitants, a fairly low rate by international standards. (By comparison, the United States incarcerates over 2.1 million of its citizens, a prison rate of 738 per 100,000).

Maputo, 14 April 2009 — About 30 per cent of children admitted to the paediatric ward in the Machava General Hospital, in the southern Mozambican city of Matola, are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

Maputo11 February 2009 — Mozambican Health Minister Ivo Garrido reiterated in Maputo on Wednesday the need to rethink progress in implementing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and plan future actions

Maputo 9 February 2009— The former President of Botswana, Festus Mogae, said on Monday in Maputo that Africans must not give up in the struggle against AIDS.

Maputo 5 February 2009 — Opening day at Escola Communitaria 4 de Outubro in the Mozambican Capital, Maputo, is an anxious occasion as parents worry about their children's admission if they cannot pay the fees.