| AllAfrica News: Mozambique |
| Six Injured in Chimoio Rioting Rioting on Friday in the central Mozambican city of Chimoio caused injuries to six people and led to 68 arrests, according to a report in Saturday's issue of the Maputo daily \"Noticias\". |
| Wheat Production Only Covers Five Per Cent of Needs Despite the Mozambican government's drive to increase wheat production, the country still only produces enough wheat to meet five per cent of its annual consumption, according to Agriculture Minister Soares Nhaca. |
| After Riots, Life in Maputo Returning to Normal After the massive disruption caused by last week's food riots, Maputo was returning to normal on Saturday morning. |
| Food Protests Spread to Central City Groups of looters attacked stalls in the main markets of the central Mozambican city of Beira on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, according to a report in Friday's issue of the Maputo daily \"Noticias\". |
| Death Toll Rises to Ten in Protests The death toll from the rioting in Maputo and the neighbouring city of Matola on Wednesday and Thursday has now risen to ten, according to Health Minister Ivo Garrido. |
| Maputo Largely Calm, But Riots Spread to Chimoio After two days of rioting over price rises, Maputo was mostly calm on Friday, but a few minor disturbances occurred in some outlying neighbourhoods. |
| South Africa Criticizes Ravalomanana Trial The sentencing of Madagascar's former President Marc Ravalomanana to hard labour for life may prove to be one more obstacle in the island's attempts to emerge from its current political crisis, says International Relations and Cooperation's Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane. |
| Police Kill Three in Chimoio as Mozambique Riots Continue Three demonstrators have been killed and 27 injured in the Mozambique city of Chimoio, as protests against price rises enter their third day. Police in the capital, Maputo, fired teargas and rubber bullets on a third day of protests against rising prices. In Chimoio, in the centre of the country, police fired live rounds as well as teargas and rubber bullets, correspondent Orfeu de Lisboa reports. |
| Portuguese Companies Will Go on Investing, Despite Riots This week's riots in Maputo will not prevent Portuguese businesses from investing in Mozambique, according to Telmo Fernandes, managing partner of Market Access, a consultancy firm based in the northern Portuguese city of Oporto. |
| Tense Maputo Counts Cost of Violent Price Riots Mozambique?s government refused yesterday to reverse this week?s price hikes that have hit the poorest, sparking the country?s worst riots in two years. |
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