On a recent morning in western Mozambique, a group of 500 families in the district of Moatize fed up with Brazilian mining giant Vale do Rio Doce gave up on writing letters to the government and erected blockades instead. They hauled logs across the railroad and piled stones on the highway, halting the flow of Vale's coal.

MAPUTO (Reuters) - Mozambique will launch this year a bidding round for new coal prospecting and mining licences in its central Tete province, where Vale and Rio Tinto have already started production, its deputy mines director said. That will be a departure from its usual process of awarding mineral rights on a first-come, first-served basis via an online application system, Geraldo Valoi told ...

MAPUTO (Reuters) - Mozambique will launch another round for blocks in the southern part of the Rovuma basin, near where Anadarko Petroleum and Eni have made gas discoveries, the chairman of the National Petroleum Institute said on Tuesday. Arsenio Mabote said his institute was organising available data for the area. "We are planning to launch a new bidding round for non-exploited offshore areas ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Mozambique is set to buy 500,000 tonnes of oil products in the spot market for the second half of this year, traders said on Monday, likely due to the need to secure fuel for back-up power generators to cope with electricity shortages. The African country's sole importer of fuel, Imopetro, issued a tender seeking 350,000 tonnes of gasoil, 110,000 tonnes of gasoline and 40 ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Mozambique is seeking nearly 400,000 tonnes of middle distillates, which include gasoil and jet fuel, in the spot market due to an electricity shortage, traders said on Friday. The country's sole importer of fuel Imopetro has issued a tender seeking 40,000 tonnes of jet fuel and 350,000 tonnes of gasoil for delivery to Mozambique ports for an unspecified period, they said ...

[AIM] London - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Wednesday told an audience at the prestigious Royal Institute of International Affairs in London that the priority of his government is to make sure that wealth derived from the huge expansion of mining activities serves the people, and that in relations between the mining companies and the government "we are setting the rules".

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LONDON, May 10 (BERNAMA-NNN-AIM) -- Mozambique's President Armando Guebuza has told an audience at the prestigious Royal Institute of International Affairs here that the priority of his government is to make sure that wealth derived from the huge expansion of mining activities serves the people, and that in relations between the mining companies and the government "we are setting the rules".

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LONDON (Reuters) - To East Africa's assets of spectacular wildlife, abundant land and shimmering beaches you can now add gas - so much gas it could transform global energy flows along with some of the world's poorest countries. Finds announced just last week off Tanzania and Mozambique are estimated to hold enough gas to supply France, Germany, Britain and Italy for at least a year - possibly ...