21 November,SONGO,CAHORA BASSA:Athletics competition to celebrate victory that was achieved with the reversal of ownership of Hidroeletrica de Cahora Bassa in 2007. Previously HCB was to a greater extent a Portuguese owned company.That changed on 27 November 2007 when the Portuguese officially returned HCB to Mozambicans. 27 NOVEMBER IS the ANNIVERSARY of THE REVERSAL OF HCB...and it celebrated with great pomp and ceremony.

Annual 12 km athletics race realised in Songo,Cahora Bassa

THE RACE IS TO COMMEMORATE THE REVERSAL of Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa's ownership.The HCB power plant once was the property of the Portuguese government.

Ownership of the Cahora Bassa dam on the Zambezi river was transferred from Portuguese control to Mozambican hands at a ceremony witnessed on 27 November 2007 by five southern African heads of state and government.

The reversal of HCB to Mozambique reflects an indelible landmark for Mozambicans, leaving out the idea of ​​complete independence.In terms of the economy, HCB is a valuable tool in line with government policies for the country’s economic growth and development.

The winners of this year's race received bycles,motorbikes and fridges.

It must be highlighted that HCB is the largest enterprise largely owned by the State and is already producing results never achieved by other public holdings .

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Cahora Bassa

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Mozambican highway.Mozambique Island: A vendor in Maputo cityMozambican road.

Mozambican art

Mozambican art

Prolonged drought threatens people in Manica

Thirty-six thousand people are struggling to get drinking water due to prolonged drought affecting the Guro district in northern Manica province.

Of those affected,nine thousand are residents of the village headquarters and the rest of the interior of the administrative posts of Mandi and Nhamassonje.Insufficient water from constructed sources,rivers and ponds, afforded the reduction of pasture availability for the animals.

Allied to this, the built cisterns have been dry for months,which contributes to the formation of
long queues at the few sources
of water, where people dispute
this liquid with animals.

Road accidents kill 32 people in the country

At least 32 people died and 47
others have contracted unjuries, 13 of them in serious condition as a result of 42 road accidents that occurred in the week just ended, throughout the country.

According to the spokesman of the Police General Command of the
Republic of Mozambique (PRM),
Inacio Dina, overspeeding,passenger fall, collision between vehicles and poor crossing of pedestrians were some causes of the accidents in question.

Dina was concerned with the high number of claims that, increasingly, are being registered in the country.

Citizen who dragged Traffic Police agent surrenders to authourities

Ten days onwards, the man who dragged an agent of Traffic
Police in Maputo city surrendered to justice.

Speaking to the press, Xisto
Conge said on that occasion he had been wnervous because on the
same day he was traveling to
Inhambane,where he would attend the mass funeral of his father.

"It all started when I was in traffic talking on the phone.The agent came and hit the car window, scaring me. I thought it was a thief, but then I realized it was a traffic officer",said the young man,adding that the agent was not comprehensive."She asked me for documents and in the that confusion we did not find the documents.

I asked if we could get out of there as it was causing congestion.I asked us to leave that place,but she insisted that it should be at that location,than advance.When the car was moving,
she held the hood and remained holding on to it ,"said the young man.

Created commission of inquiryto investigate invasion ofMuiane mine in Gilé

The Police have created a commission of inquiry to investigate the populace's invasion of Muiane mine in Gile district,in Zambezia province,which took place last weekend during which were vandalized,infrastructure,equipment and products valued at ten million
US dollars,according to the mining company. Police said the establishment of the commission aims to determine the veracity of the facts in order to vindicate the perpetrators accountable. The information was released yesterday in Maputo,by General Command of the police. "The investigation initiated at this point is to determine the actual circumstances that created those riots that resulted in widespread damage to the mine that operates legally in that district'',said Inacio Dina,the police spokesman

Supposed patrol group assaults a citizen

A citizen was assaulted by an alleged patrol group of residents in Tsalala neighborhood in the city of Matola.

He is resident in Tchumene neighborhood, but during wrong time was stopped in the wrong place at the Tsalala district, municipality of Matola and assaulted by suspected members of community police armed with machetes.

The relatives of the victim are outraged with the situation and accuse the local leader of doing nothing to solve the case and are threatening their family.

The head of the neibhourhood denies the charges and says that sometimes he is not aware of patrols carried out in his neighborhood and that the citizen was mistaken for a criminal. 

It is in response to the alleged lack of police raids that residents of some neighborhoods do patrols,usually during the dead of night.

PROVINCIAL GVT TRIES TO MINIMISE WATER CRISIS IN BEIRA

THEE LOOMING WATER CRISIS

The growing number of consumers and poor power quality is identified as the source of the problem.

The government of Sofala says it is aware of the situation.