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  Mozambique To Urge US Backing In IMF, World Bank. 16 June   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mocumbi suggested that there should be a serious discussion about how African countries could industrialise, and ensure their competitiveness in the current era of globalisation.
Mocumbi thought that among the ways donors could help build up Mozambican capacity was by directly funding the country's state budget.
Mocumbi stressed that the government is committed to the growth of the Mozambican private sector, which should be "the motor of economic growth and of development."
www.unsystemmoz.org /news/flood/jun/wfp_16jun2000_1.asp   (516 words)

  
 ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Mozambicans Urged to Rebuild Home ...
MAPUTO (May 1) XINHUA - Mozambican Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi on Monday called for "redoubled efforts" to ensure a return to normality in the areas of southern and central Mozambique hit by catastrophic flooding in February and March.
On the rescue operations, Mocumbi said that 50,000 people had been airlifted to safety, and 7,000 tons of emergency cargo had been flown into areas cut off by the floods.
Mocumbi explained that President Joaquim Chissano could not be present at this year's May Day rally, since he has flown to Europe where he will address a donors' conference in Rome later this week, seeking 450 million U. dollars for post-flood reconstruction.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/848c0bb5b779acf6852568d200699d6a   (222 words)

  
 Mozambique News Agency - AIM Reports
Mocumbi attributed this to the many months of closure of the railway between Maputo and Zimbabwe, parts of which were washed away by the gigantic flood on the Limpopo, and to the many cuts in the main north-south highway also caused by flooding.
Prime Minister Mocumbi warned that the impact of last February's floods would still be felt in 2001, and so the government only expected growth rates of three per cent in agriculture, and 0.4 per cent in livestock.
Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi stressed on 14 December that anyone involved in the deaths of at least 83 prisoners last month in a police cell in the northern town of Montepuez would be held responsible and would face legal action.
www.poptel.org.uk /mozambique-news/newsletter/aim197.html   (3228 words)

  
 Pascoal Mocumbi, former prime minister of Mozambique: “The perpetual famine in Africa is caused by disease” · Forum ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pascoal Mocumbi, former prime minister of Mozambique: “The perpetual famine in Africa is caused by disease” · Forum 2004
Pascoal Mocumbi, former prime minister of Mozambique: “The perpetual famine in Africa is caused by disease”
As regards training specialized healthcare staff, Mocumbi denounced that in sub-Saharan Africa one out of every sixteen women run the risk of dying during pregnancy or delivery (in Europe only one in every four-thousand women are at risk).
www.barcelona2004.org /eng/actualidad/noticias/html/f042535.htm   (227 words)

  
 Premier Zhu Rongji Held Talks with Mozambican Prime Minister Pascoal Manuel Mocumbi
Zhu first welcomed Mocumbi's another visit to China and appreciated Mocumbi's contribution to bilateral friendly cooperation and traditional friendship in the past years, and was convinced that this visit would further the existing friendship and cooperation between the two countries.
Mocumbi said that Mozambique-China friendship is not only embodied in the political area, but also in the many projects of friendly cooperation between the two countries.
Following the talks, Zhu and Mocumbi jointly attended the signing ceremony of an agreement on economic and technological cooperation between the two governments and a memorandum of understanding on agricultural cooperation.
pg.china-embassy.org /eng/xwdt/t48181.htm   (868 words)

  
 The Body: AIDS Could Lead to Collapse of Mozambique: Prime Minister
Mozambican Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi has warned that the country could face collapse if effective measures are not taken to halt the spread of AIDS.
Speaking at a Maputo press briefing last Thursday, Mocumbi admitted that the AIDS epidemic could throw out all calculations as to the amounts needed to recruit and train staff for vital areas in education, health and policing.
Mocumbi stressed the need to educate children and adolescents about AIDS and how to avoid it, but he drew the line at distributing condoms in schools, largely because he thought this would not be accepted by parents.
thebody.com /cdc/news_updates_archive/july23_02/mozambique_aids.html   (329 words)

  
 Sala de prensa :: Forum Barcelona 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Xavier Casas welcomed Dr. Mocumbi and thanked him for “the intense work he has undertaken in Barcelona these days.” Casas quoted a sentence by the African doctor and statesman: “The health of individuals is a basic factor for ensuring the progress of peoples, and the right to health is a human right.
Mocumbi is a guarantee for the Forum Dialogue, in which we intend to survey the state of health in the world and the challenge of globalization.” Dr.
Mocumbi was minister of Health in the eighties and a candidate to the executive board of the World Health Organization (WHO).
media.barcelona2004.org /en/nota.html?id=12248&prn=1   (344 words)

  
 Pascoal Mocumbi to chair the Forum Dialogue on "Health and Development, Challenges for the 21st Century" · Forum 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pascoal Mocumbi to chair the Forum Dialogue on "Health and Development, Challenges for the 21st Century" · Forum 2004
The prime minister of Mozambique, Pascoal Mocumbi, has agreed to chair next year’s Forum Dialogue, from August 1-5, on the challenges posed by the world’s health problems.
Pascoal Mocumbi confirmed to journalists that he intends to involve himself in the organization and running of the Dialogue, on the basis of “awareness that globalization interrelates all human beings.
www.barcelona2004.org /eng/actualidad/noticias/html/f04164.htm   (167 words)

  
 Personal Profiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In the years 1961 through 1963, Dr. Mocumbi continued his education in medicine at the University of Poitiers in France, finishing his studies at Lausanne University in Switzerland, where he graduated as a medical doctor in 1973.
Dr. Mocumbi practiced medicine for five years until, in 1980, he was appointed the minister of health.
Dr. Mocumbi is a member of Central Committee of the FRELIMO (Mozambique Liberation Front) and was elected to its Political Commission in 1992.
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 Mozambique - Natural Disasters - Floods - SARDC. 31 May 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mocumbi said that the number of people directly affected by the floods has risen to 900,000, of whom over 300,000 have been displaced from their homes.
Mocumbi said that over 100,000 hectares of crops have been washed away, and over 40,000 head of cattle have drowned.
Mocumbi said the programme also aims at continued rapid economic growth, building on the successes of the previous five years.
www.unsystemmoz.org /news/flood/may/wfp_31may2000_3.asp   (3916 words)

  
 WHO | Pascoal Mocumbi
Dr Pascoal Mocumbi is the High Representative of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) since March 2004.
His mandate is to raise the visibility of the EDCTP and gain political support, particular within Africa, and to contribute to the EDCTP’s fundraising activities.
Dr Mocumbi was Prime Minister of the Republic of Mozambique from 1994 to 2004.
www.who.int /entity/social_determinants/strategy/Mocumbi/en   (215 words)

  
 allAfrica.com: Mocumbi On Genetically Modified Maize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Any genetically modified maize sent to Mozambique as food aid must be milled before delivery to the beneficiaries, Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi said on Wednesday.
Speaking at a Maputo press briefing, Mocumbi said that, under current legislation, the Mozambican authorities could accept or reject genetically modified grain, depending on the type of modification.
Genetically modified crops were a high technology input that the Mozambican economy simply could not cope with at its current stage of development, when "we are not even able to produce basic agricultural implements".
www.genet-info.org /-htm/mozam3.htm   (362 words)

  
 ELECTRONIC MAIL
Speaking in those ceremonies, members of the Mozambican government, in different provinces, praised Machel’s life and work and stressed that the best way to remember him and those who died with him was to continue their work, consolidating peace and national unity.
In Maputo, Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi led the ceremonies at Heroes' Square, where Machel was buried alongside the founder of Frelimo, Eduardo Mondlane.
Speaking to reporters, Mocumbi said that the Mozambican and South African interior ministries were continuing investigations to ascertain the exact circumstances of the plane crash.
www.humanities.ualberta.ca /hist247/winter2004rev/resources2004/mailguardian/mg20oct98machel.htm   (351 words)

  
 l'express
Mozambique’s prime minister, Pascoal Mocumbi, said on yesterday he would resign ahead of a general election later this year when President Joaquim Chissano retires.
Political analysts said it had been clear that Mocumbi would leave the government after he was overlooked last year by the ruling Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo) when it picked businessman and party heavyweight Armando Guebuza as its presidential candidate.
Mocumbi, a 63-year-old doctor who has held the largely ceremonial post for 10 years, told a news briefing that his departure would depend on a time convenient to Chissano.
www.lexpress.mu /display_article.php?news_id=11482   (283 words)

  
 Global Health Council - The Candidates
Pascoal Mocumbi, MD (Republic of Mozambique) has served as prime minister of the Republic of Mozambique since December, 1994.
Mocumbi received his medical degree from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and has practiced medicine with a specialty in gynecology in hospitals throughout Mozambique.
Mocumbi is committed to the importance of public health as an essential arm of sustainable development and has been a leader in the transformation of Mozambique's public healthcare system.
www.globalhealth.org /view_top.php3?id=196   (1683 words)

  
 AEGiS-AFP News: Mozambican president lets prime minister go to take up health agency job - February 17, 2004
Mocumbi, a medical doctor by profession, will become high commissioner of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership Programme, a new scheme to enable clinical trials for drugs and vaccines against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
Mocumbi studied in Portugal and France in the early 1960s before joining the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) at the start of the independence struggle in 1964.
After Mozambique's independence from Portugal in 1975, Mocumbi served as provincial director of health in the central province of Sofala.
www.aegis.com /NEWS/AFP/2004/AF040259.html   (410 words)

  
 SABCnews.com - africa/southern_africa
Mocumbi had held the largely ceremonial prime minister's post in the southern African country for 10 years.
Analysts said it had been clear Pascoal Mocumbi would leave government after he was overlooked last year by the ruling Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo) when it picked businessman Armando Guebuza as its presidential candidate.
Chissano is to step down this year after 18 years in office and a wide circle of some of his closest aides are expected to depart at the same time, senior government officials said.
www.sabcnews.com /africa/southern_africa/0,2172,74221,00.html   (264 words)

  
 Mozambique - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Mozambique
In the first multiparty parliamentary and presidential elections in November 1994, Chissano won 53% of the vote and Frelimo 129 of the 250 assembly seats.
Chissano appointed Pascoal Mocumbi as his prime minister.
The following year Mozambique became a member of the Commonwealth, having increased use of English and adapted its laws and institutions to fit Commonwealth practice; it was the first country without historical links to the British Empire to be admitted.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Mozambique   (1228 words)

  
 freedomforum.org: Mozambican leader pledges free press, free expression for country
Pascoal Manuel Mocumbi, Mozambican prime minister since 1994, assured his audience at a Freedom Forum International Division program yesterday that his government was firmly committed to a free press.
When Mocumbi replied that those laws were not being used, the questioner said that, like the Sword of Damocles, the mere existence of a threat was a deterrent and could lead to press self-censorship.
Mocumbi said the trial of the accused killers was continuing and that it would be "inappropriate" for him to comment on it because doing so might be looked upon as "interference."
www.freedomforum.org /templates/document.asp?documentID=14293   (697 words)

  
 [Ip-health] Mozambique Prime Minister To Take Up WHO Post [WSJ/DJ - 2/17/04]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He returned to the position after the ruli= ng FRELIMO party won a second term in 1999.The 63-year-old Mocumbi asked to= be released from government after he was offered a position in Geneva coor= dinating a WHO research program into communicable diseases.
National news agency, AIM, reported Wednesday that invitation to Mocumbi wa= s initiated by the Co-ordinating Committee of the African countries that ar= e part of the partnership and he also won the support of the European Union=.
Mocumbi, who was unsuccessful in his bid last year to become the World Heal= th Organisation (WHO) Director General, however, told a Maputo press confer= ence Tuesday he would remain Mozambican Prime Minister until President Joaq= uim Chissano finds a replacement.
lists.essential.org /pipermail/ip-health/2004-February/005952.html   (522 words)

  
 Mozambique --  Encyclopædia Britannica
President Joaquim Chissano, assisted by Prime Ministers Pascoal Mocumbi and, from February 17, Luisa Diogo
Joaquim Chissano announced the dismissal of Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi, who had held office since 1994.
Mocumbi was replaced by Luisa Diogo, minister of planning and finance, an office that she retained.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9398393   (794 words)

  
 Mozambican Students Warned Against AIDS
Maputo - Mozambican Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi has warned pupils that AIDS is a lethal disease, but can be prevented.
Mocumbi said the slogan for the inauguration of the reopening of schools throughout the country this year is: "For schools free of AIDS".
Mocumbi then urged school authorities to fully co-operate with the local community.
www.aegis.com /news/pana/2001/PA010202.html   (392 words)

  
 Item No   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mozambican Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi declared that the government remains committed to “the consolidation of press freedom in Mozambique”.In his weekly briefing to the media, which happened to coincide with World Press Freedom Day, Mocumbi said “the government vehemently rejects any attempt to throttle press freedom, including any intimidation or assault upon journalists”.
All of those involved in the assassination, both those who pulled the triggers and those who gave the orders “must be tracked down, put on trial and severely punished for this crime”, declared Mocumbi.
Mocumbi declared that he was in solidarity with “all those who, by word and by deed, are committed to press freedom in Mozambique and in the world”.
www.sardc.net /Editorial/sanf/2001/iss12/03.html   (152 words)

  
 Dozens Found Dead In Mozambican Jail
Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi said he did not know exactly how many inmates had died in the prison in Montepuez, but television reports put the toll at more than 75, while state radio reported 83 dead.
Mocumbi said government investigators would be joined by a team of experts from South Africa, the European Union and the United Nations to probe the deaths, which occurred overnight on Tuesday.
Doctors began autopsies yesterday afternoon, but their initial findings were not made public.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/11/24/MN123047.DTL&type=printable   (327 words)

  
 Local elections in May   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
At a 5 September press conference, Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi said "we counted on donor contributions announced as 'pledges' but when we came to the moment of truth, donors said their bureaucratic mechanisms were delaying the release of the money, and we were obliged to alter the dates" of registration and election.
Mocumbi also noted that "the national private business class, which is still nascent and lacking in financial resources [has] been penalised by the restrictive policies that help to slow down inflation, particularly in the decapitalised rural areas."
Mocumbi's and Salomão's appeals come at a time when the IMF has, for the first time, conceded ground to the World Bank and donors.
www.mozambique.mz /awepa/eawp19/eawepa19.htm   (10314 words)

  
 EDCTP European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
EDCTP High Representative, Dr Pascoal Mocumbi, is nominated as Member of Social Determinants Health of the World Health Organisation that is charged with recommending interventions and policies to improve health and narrow health inequalities through action on social determinants.
At the same time, Dr Mocumbi will serve as Goodwill Ambassador for maternal, newborn and child health, with special attention mortality reduction, in the WHO African Region as appointed by the World Health Organisation Regional Office for Africa (WHO/AFRO).
Mocumbi, confided his audience in saying that he hoped that EDCTP's plan of action will not only resolves in knowledge sharing and capacity building, but also to the implementation in local communities.
www.edctp.org   (875 words)

  
 afrol News - First female Prime Minister in Mozambique
According to the Mozambican Presidency, Mr Mocumbi had resigned from his post as Prime Minister due to the "new obligations" he had acquired in an international organisation.
Mr Mocumbi last year for the first time indicated that he was heading for an international office when he was one of the favourite candidates to become the new Secretary-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO).
She now occupies the office of Finance Minister and, according to the Presidency, is to combine the two posts until the elections.
www.afrol.com /articles/11288   (482 words)

  
 Luisa Diogo -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Luisa Dias Diogo (born April 11, 1958) has been Prime Minister of (A republic on the eastern coast of Africa on the Mozambique Channel; became independent from Portugal in 1975) Mozambique since February 2004.
She replaced (Click link for more info and facts about Pascoal Mocumbi) Pascoal Mocumbi, who had been Prime Minister for the previous nine years.
Before becoming prime minister she was Minister of Planning and Finance, and she continues to hold this post.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/lu/luisa_diogo.htm   (139 words)

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