Latest Mozambique Stories

By Peter Apps NHAMPUGUANE, Mozambique (Reuters) - As he scans the landscape around him, all Sam Guemba can see are maize crops standing stunted and withered. But there's an exception. A few fields shine green and fertile -- the first fruit of a process aid workers hope could alleviate the shortages endemic in southern Africa. At Nhampuguane in Guija district, southern Mozambique, the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) is working with U.S. religious agency Samaritans' Purse to encourage...

By Peter Apps SONGUENE, Mozambique (Reuters) - For villagers in drought-stricken southern Mozambique, this year's food shortages are the worst many can remember, but aid workers fear the world may not respond until it is too late. Across southern Africa, the United Nations says some 10 million people -- many of them already battling HIV and chronic poverty -- could face serious hunger by the end of the year. "If the situation continues like this, we could die," says 43-year-old mother of six...

MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) -- A U.N. Conference on Trade and Development report on protecting traditional knowledge argues that beyond a devastating impact on culture, the death of a language wipes out centuries of know-how in preserving ecosystems - leading to grave consequences for biodiversity. The United Nations estimates half of the world's 6,000 languages will disappear in less than a century. Roughly a third of those are spoken in Africa and about 200 already have less than 500 speakers....