Tanzania allocates Sh10 billion to Kibaha biotech factory for pesticide production in 2025/2026

Dar es Salaam. The Government of Tanzania has earmarked Sh10 billion for the Tanzania Biotech Products Limited (TBPL) factory in Kibaha, Coast Region, to support the development and production of various pesticides and related chemicals in the...

Ghanaian Engineer Frank Owusu Claims Africa Prize Runner-Up Glory

Ghanaian innovator Frank Owusu has etched his name into Africa’s engineering excellence record after being named a runner-up in the 2025 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation. His groundbreaking water-quality monitoring system, Aquamet, has...

Mozambique's role in championing the Timor-Leste independence movement

Demonstrations at the University Eduardo Mondlane campus, in Maputo, Mozambique, on September 26, 1999, in Indonesia's Tempo magazine. Photo by Marisa Gonçalves. Used with permission. The Southeast Asian nation of Timor-Leste and the East African...

Scientists call for relocation of Pemba hotel project

Pemba. Global environmental scientists have urged the Zanzibar Investment Promotion Authority (Zipa) to relocate construction of a five-star tourist hotel from Pemba’s Ngezi Forest Reserve, warning that it threatens rare plant and animal species...

Mozambique: Banhine park given 385 animals to help attract more predators

Banhine National Park, in Gaza province, southern Mozambique, has received a total of 385 animals translocated from Maputo Park, to re-establish the food chain and attract predators in that conservation area, it was announced today. “Since 2018,...

Xi meets Mozambican PM Levi

BEIJING – President Xi Jinping yesterday met with Prime Minister of Mozambique Maria Benvinda Delfina Levi, who is in Beijing for the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women. Xi said that the traditional friendship between China and Mozambique has been...

Mozambique to quadruple rice output with $22.8M AfDB boost

Mozambique is launching an ambitious agricultural project to tackle its severe food insecurity and malnutrition crises. With climate shocks like cyclones straining resources, a new $22.8 million initiative funded by the African...

Africa’s Resource Revolt: A Call for Industrial Sovereignty

🛡️ Africa’s Industrial Awakening From the copper veins of Congo to the vanilla fields of Mozambique, Africa’s story has too often been written by outsiders—extracting wealth, erasing dignity, and exporting opportunity. But the tide is turning. A...

Vodafone and Nokia Extend Partnership to Boost 5G Rollout with Safaricom

Vodafone has extended its long-standing partnership with Nokia through a new five-year agreement aimed at accelerating 5G rollout across Europe and Africa. The renewed collaboration focuses on deploying Nokia’s advanced AirScale radio access...

Chinese-aided agricultural poverty reduction project launched in Mozambique

MAPUTO, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese-aided Africa Bridge project has been launched in KaMavota District in Maputo, Mozambique's capital, aiming to support the southern African country's agricultural poverty alleviation and sustainable...

Jihadists in Mozambique kill Christians, burn homes and churches

ISMP on Sept. 30 released 20 photos purporting to show members killing Christians. MEMRE Jihadists with the Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) shot to death or beheaded at least 11 Christians and burned more than 130 homes in northern...

Researchers discover surprising 'stronghold' for threatened predator: 'Quite encouraging'

It's a rare piece of good news for a species that has struggled. by Jamie SpekaOctober 11, 2025 A recent study reveals that northern Mozambique's Niassa Special Reserve harbors the largest documented breeding population of the vulnerable Taita...

Boomslang vs Black Mamba: Understanding the key differences between two deadly African snakes

The boomslang and the black mamba are among the most dangerous snakes native to sub-Saharan Africa, yet they are strikingly different in behaviour, appearance, and venom. While both are highly venomous, the boomslang is a tree-dwelling snake with...

Former Chipolopolo star graduates from top Swiss University with degree in Sports Science

Lineker Mwiikisa has added another feather to his blossoming football resume. The retired Chipolopolo striker has t graduated with a Bachelor of Science Business Administration in Sports Management from the Swiss School of Business and Management...

Zimbabwean engineers in breakthrough energy invention

Two Harare-based engineers have developed a groundbreaking hydropower engine and pump that promises to generate electricity without relying on rivers, lakes, or dams. The invention, which harnesses water stored in tanks mounted on tall buildings,...

Scientists probe landslides

Travelling from Mulanje to Blantyre, scarred hills flash past—deprived of their lushness and soil cover. There are two massive scars on Soche Hill slopes in Blantyre, one from Michesi Hill to Bokosi Village in Phalombe and seven in Mulanje, where...

Mozambique: Over 113,000 Cabo Delgado families displaced by rebels need support

More than 113,000 families need support from the Mozambican authorities in Cabo Delgado province, displaced due to terrorist attacks, according to estimates presented on Monday by the Institute for Disaster Risk Management and Reduction (INGD) in...

US Senate Committee Chair Decries 'Killings Of Christians' In Nigeria, Across Africa As ISIS Beheads 30 In Mozambique

In a statement condemning the growing wave of religious persecution across Africa, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), has decried the continued killing of Christians by Islamist extremists,...

BLEEDING IN SILENCE

Qacha’s Nek, 0ct. 16 — Across Lesotho’s quiet hills, there is a silence that bleeds every month, unspoken, unseen and endured behind closed doors. For many girls, menstruation means missed school days. For girls and young women with disabilities,...

Local engineers in breakthrough energy invention

TWO Harare-based engineers have invented a simplified hydropower engine and pump for electricity generation. TWO Harare-based engineers have invented a simplified hydropower engine and pump for electricity generation. By Jeffrey Moyo The...