mozambique

More Than 500 Dead in Flooding in Southern Africa

FARAI MUTSAKA / The Associated Press Mar 21, 2019 Hundreds more deaths are likely; officials estimate that 200,000 people will need food aid over the next three months in Zimbabwe alone. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Over 1,000 Feared Dead After Cyclone Slams Into Mozambique

ANDREW MELDRUM / The Associated Press Mar 18, 2019 Cyclone Idai could prove the deadliest storm in generations to hit the impoverished southeast African country of 30 million. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

U.S. Colleges Get In on African Land Grabs

Staff / Truthdig Jun 9, 2011 American universities are reportedly using endowment funds to buy and lease vast tracts of African farmland, often for piddling prices, in deals that will reward foreign investors handsomely while separating tens of thousands from their homes and farms and providing little or none of the economic benefits promised them, California researchers say. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Six Dead in Mozambique Bread Riots

Staff / Truthdig Sep 3, 2010 Soaring bread prices have sparked riots around Mozambique's capital city of Maputo, but worse still is the fact that police killed at least six people and used live ammunition because -- wait for it -- they “ran out of rubber bullets.” Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Who is Mogae?

Gbemisola Olujobi / Truthdig Apr 11, 2009 Almost everyone in the United States or indeed anywhere else in the world knows about Zimbabwe’s sit-tight president, Robert Mugabe. But who is Mogae? Who is Chissano? Who is Kikwete? And who is Kufuor? Sadly, very few people outside Africa recognize these names. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )