A Mozambique Airlines plane carrying 33 people has crashed in Namibia, killing all on board.

Up to €623m will this year be donated through Irish Aid to seven developing countries with €37.5m – the single biggest pay-out – to Mozambique.

An Irish engineer robbed and murdered while working in Mozambique was killed for the cash he was carrying to pay local workers, detectives believe.

Over 10% of the 30m people in Mozambique have HIV. The Irish Government is funding treatments, reports Sarah Stack

The 32-year-old Irishman murdered in Mozambique was beaten to death by carjackers less than 1km from his home.

It has emerged that a Cork man found dead in Mozambique was strangled during a suspected carjacking incident.

Police in one of the world’s poorest countries are investigating the murder of a 32-year-old Irishman whose company 4x4 was hijacked by his killers a short distance from his work compound.

A Cork man has been killed in the African state of Mozambique.

Beijing bronze medallist Paddy Barnes and fellow Belfast man Michael Conlan are just two wins away from a medal at the Olympic Games following yesterday’s draw which threw up some interesting pairings.

BEFORE I landed in Maputo, the images of Mozambique I’d been toying with were predictable.

ZIMBABWEANS were reminded yesterday that there is only one certainty in their lives. Prices are running wild and there is nothing they can do about it.

MOZAMBIQUE declared three days of national mourning yesterday after an explosion at an arms depot in the capital Maputo killed nearly 100 people and injured hundreds more, many of them children.

Two people have been killed after a large fire at Mozambique's national weapons depot set off a series of explosions, witnesses said today.

President Mary McAleese today headed off on an 11-day tour of southern Africa visiting Lesotho, Mozambique and Tanzania to check on Irish-funded aid projects.

A national disaster management team was sent to a small town near the epicentre of Mozambique’s earthquake today to evaluate the damage caused by a quake that killed four people, injured 27 and destroyed more than 100 homes yesterday.

A huge 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck Mozambique along the Indian Ocean coast, collapsing at least one building in the main port city and sending people fleeing into the streets.

ACROSS southern Africa, some 10 million people - many of them battling HIV and chronic poverty - could face serious hunger by the end of the year, according to the UN.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan complimented Africa on its peace efforts yesterday, but warned that the continent needed political will to achieve long-term stability.

THE Government is to tap private industry in an effort to build trade links and swap skills with the world’s poorest countries.

The Taoiseach is promising to use Ireland's EU presidency to campaign for Europe to match donations made by the US for fighting the spread of AIDS in the world's poorest countries.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair last night urged fellow world leaders to agree radical cuts in harmful greenhouse gas emissions — going beyond even the existing Kyoto protocol which the United States still refuses to ratify.

Mozambique is accepting a shipment of genetically modified food aid from the US in an attempt to ease the country's hunger crisis.

Six people have been charged with killing of one of Mozambique's best-known journalists.