A Maputo court on Wednesday sentenced two Turkish citizens, Yener Cubkou and Fatih Kombey, to a year's imprisonment for physical abuse of 17 Mozambican children in their care.

Twelve Mozambicans died in the first six months of this year in accidents in South African gold mines, according to a Thursday press release from the Labour Ministry.

The Portuguese government, through its cooperation agency, donated on Wednesday about 13,000 US dollars worth of computer equipment, books and medicines to the Mozambican Practical Police School at Matalane, in Maputo province.

A Mozambican court has finally judged a case of corruption - however the man convicted is not a Mozambican official, but a Portuguese citizen accusing of offering a bribe to Interior Ministry officials in order to speed up his request

Vietnam has pledged to sell 1.2 million tonnes of rice to Mozambique, at a rate of 400,000 tonnes a year, over the next three years.

The publicly owned Mozambican mobile phone company Mcel is planning to invest about 70 million US dollars this year in infrastructures for its network in order to improve the quality of its service, and to expand its geographical coverage.