Mozambique

American Idol Fans and African Preschoolers: A Winning Team

Carolyn S. Miles | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Education, Early Education, Children, Pre-School, World Bank, Africa, Preschools, Mozambique, American Idol, Save the Children, HIV/AIDS, Idol Gives Back, Impact News

American Idol fans can take a bow. Thanks to them, African preschoolers will be poised to step out on the stage of school and life, and shine.

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Getting Clean Water To 780 Million People Living Without It

Richard Greenly | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Clean Water, World Water Day, Hunger, World Vision, World Health Organization, Mozambique, water4, Millennium Development Goals, Water, Wells, Impact-Earth-Day, Green-Earth-Day, Impact News

Lito Eduardo, a 12-year-old boy in Mozambique, is among the 40 percent of people in his country who don't have access to clean, safe water. As a resul...

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Help Women By Freeing The Girls

Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Free the Girls Denver, Video, Denver Impact, Free the Girls, Bra Donation, Women Helping Women, Sex Trafficking, Mozambique, Denver Colorado, Denver News, Bra Drive, Human Trafficking, Colorado, Denver News

The well-published mantra from the second wave of the feminist movement may have been, "Burn your bra!" (whether they actually did or not is highly-co...

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Calling on the Food and Beverage Industry to Help Reduce Poverty

Jordan Dey | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Kraft, Howard G. Buffett Foundation, Walmart, Quaker Oats, Hunger, Coca Cola, Mozambique, Poverty, Cargill, Haiti, Kenya, Pepsico, South Sudan, World Food Program, Sabmiller, Impact News

The sourcing decisions that major food and beverage companies make on a daily basis can help improve the lives of the world's smallest and poorest farmers in the developing world.

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An Army of Giant Rats Unearths Peace in Africa

John Converse Townsend | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Bart Weetjens, Landmines, Tuberculosis, Thailand, Mozambique, African Pouched Rats, Apopo, Herorats, Impact News

It takes a true visionary to see a Buddhist monk deploying a pack of giant rats as the solution to the devastating danger posed by landmines.

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Graca Machel: Within Ten Years Women Will Have Changed Africa

Elisabeth Braw | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Women, Nelson Mandela, Mozambique, Child Marriage, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Graca Machel, Africa, World News

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia's President, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her peaceful leadership of the war-torn country. Johnson is Africa's first elected female head of state -- and she and other female leaders on the continent have Graca Machel to thank.

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In Maputo, Collecting Trash Is The Livelihood

www.cnn.com | Emily Wither | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Garbage Collectors, Huléne Garbage Dump, Jose Ferreira, Mozambique, Collecting Trash, Maputo, Impact News

For some living in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, making a living from other people's waste is their only means of survival. Portuguese photogr...

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Beyond Growth: The Importance of Inclusion

Antoinette Sayeh | Posted 09.06.2011

An increasing number of African countries have been growing robustly for more than a decade. But while growth is a necessary condition for poverty reduction and employment creation, is it also sufficient?

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Mozambique HIV Patients Help Each Other Stick To Treatment Regimen

NPR | Posted 08.05.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, AIDS Treatment, HIV Drugs, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Aids, Hiv, HIV/AIDS Africa, Mozambique, Good News, Impact News

Like many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Mozambique has a high HIV rate, reaching nearly 20 percent among some sectors of the population. In Mozambi...

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Mozambique Looks To Hybrid Seeds To Help Food Crisis

AP | By DONNA BRYSON | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: High Food Prices, Gmos, Peter Waziweyi, Hybrid Seeds, Africa Food Crisis, Africa, Seeds, Food Technology, Free Market, Mozambique, Nzara Yapera, Food Crop Seeds, The Green Revolution, Food News

CATANDICA, Mozambique -- Peter Waziweyi is bouncing around the lush countryside of Mozambique in his 30-year-old truck, visiting his customers' maize ...

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HALO: Clearing Mines and Saving Lives

The Huffington Post | Yepoka Yeebo | Posted 05.25.2011

Helen Gray remembers a field of 30,000 mines that ran straight through a village in Mozambique in south east Africa. Some of the homes were on one sid...

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Join the Quiet Revolution

Kristin Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: International Women's Day 2011, International Women's Day Centennial, Oxfam, Mozambique, Women Food, International Women's Day, Women's Day, Chitehwe, World News

I will never forget the women of Chitehwe, a village in Mozambique I visited with Oxfam. It's a quiet revolution you won't hear much about in the media, but there is little doubt they are taking their destiny into their own hands.

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Free the Girls Hosts Denver's Largest Bra Drive

Katie Tate | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colorado, Free the Girls, Denver, Cause Company, Human Trafficking, Africa, Denver Impact, Kimba Langas, Mama T, Gothic Theatre, New Level Church, Mozambique, Best of Denver, Denver News

A bra to women in the US is a no-brainer; you have to wear one. A bra is very different to the women in many parts of Africa; it is a status symbol, and it might prevent them being raped.

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PHOTOS: Idyllic Mozambique, 'One Of Africa's Rising Stars'

Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: International Destinations, Africa, Mozambique Travel, Slidepollajax, Africa Travel, Mozambique, Mozambique Tourism, Destinations, Travel News

Lonely Planet calls Mozambique "one of Africa's rising stars," a country little-explored by modern tourists which offers all the beauty and excitement...

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Reporter's Notebook: A Clinic's Strains in Mozambique

Ray Suarez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Mozambique, Maputo, Health Care, Barack Obama, Africa, Home News

MAPUTO, Mozambique | Heard much about Mozambique in the last 35 years? It's a country that doesn't get much attention in the United States. It's a bi...

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This World Food Day, Rising Food Prices Are Back in the News. What's the World to Do?

Charles MacCormack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farming, Food Riots, Hunger, Children, Corn, Agriculture, Malnutrition, Childhood Nutrition, Mozambique, Food Prices, World Food Day, Children's Health, Food News

Food price protests have at times shined a spotlight on the plight of the urban poor, which is real and must be addressed. But the world must also address the plight of rural poor, even if it's less likely to make headlines.

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The Rebirth of Gorongosa National Park

Rob Pringle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Conservation, Mozambique, National Parks, Biodiversity, War, Green News

The dedicated staff of Gorongosa are doing their part to remake the park. The end result will look different than it did before -- that's a given. But that's also perfectly fine. It just needs to be something that the world will treasure.

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Bob Geldof and the Food Riots in Mozambique

Nicholas van Praag | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Security, Justice, Africa, Violence, Financial TImes, Bread Riots, Development, Bob Geldof, Mozambique, Conflict and Development, World News

As the riots in Mozambique demonstrate, growth, as a proxy for rising economic opportunity, is all very well. But economic development, especially if it is relatively job-poor, as in Mozambique, is not enough on its own.

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Where the Rift Valley Ends

Rob Pringle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Biodiversity Conservation, Environment, Gorongosa National Park, Africa, Mozambique, Green News

The chaotic exuberance of the Gorongosa National Park tends to conceal the scars of history, as well as the uncertainties ahead for Lake Urema and its dependent ecosystem.

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For Africa, Water Is Life

Joaquim Chissano | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clean Water Access, Clean Water, World Water Day, Mozambique, Africa, Climate Change, Green News

Across Africa, a third of us have no access to clean water, and almost two-thirds have no access to clean sanitation, causing widespread suffering from malaria, typhoid, dysentery and other diseases.

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Afro-Brazilian History, Beats and Culture

Lauri Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Black History Month, African-American Experience, Middle Passage, Brazil Slavery, Afro-Brazilian Culture, Afro-Brazilian History, African-American Culture, Slavery, Lauri Lyons, Carnaval, Carnival, Brazil, Brasil, Nigeria, Ghana, Mozambique, Portuguese, Congo, Central Africa, Benin, Africa, Portugal, Amerindians, African Diaspora, Angola, South America, Rio De Janiero, Favelas, Samba, Easter, Afro-Brazilians, Black Orpheus, Academy Awards, City of God, Favela Rising, Cannes Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art, Premiere Brazil, Minister of Culture, London, Dictators, Tropicalia, Exile, Caetano Veloso, Culture Points, Latin American Politics, Vargas, Political Prisoners, Gilberto Gil, Black Pride, Americas, Black Consciousness, Ile Aiye, Rio Carnaval Parade, Moviemento Negro, Brazilian Art, Latin Music, Baile Funk, Art, Latin Art, Brazilian Music, Hip-Hop, African Music, Brazilian Hip-Hop, Turntables, Microphones, Music Samplers, B-Boys, Sao Paulo, Educardo Fm, Salvador De Bahia, Bahia, Evolucao Hip Hop, South Bronx, Afros, Bling, Breakdancing, Radio, Olympic Games, Bronx, Braids, Santos Futebol Clube, Football, Pele, Soccer, Nigerian Civil War, Lagos, New York Cosmos, Amazon Jungle, African American Photographers, Rhythmic Uprising, Beyond Impanema, President Lula Da Silva, Cricket World Cup, Flag an American Story, Flag International, Sacatar Foundation, West-Africa, The Spirits of Itaparica, Itaparica, 2014 World Cup, Brazilian Carnaval, Photography, 2016 Olympics, Music, Huffington Post, Photojournalism, Girl From Impanema, Bossa Nova, Copacabana Beach, Rappers, Urban Music, Innercity Youth, Africana Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Social Advocacy, Southern Hemisphere, World News

While Africa and America are often recognized as the book ends of the African Diaspora, there is an additional link in the Middle Passage that is less publicized, but no less important.

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Tea Party Compact Could Doom Movement - And They Know It

Andrew Belonsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Liz Lauber, Compact for America, Phil Troyer, Politics, Eric Forcade, Contract for America, Democracy, Congress, Mozambique, Tea Party, Glenn Beck, News, Newt Gringrich, Politics News

A Tea Party-drafted compact could severely limit the movement's survival because candidates would be forced to sign on to a document that puts them into a prohibitive, ideological cage. TP candidates and others, however, may not mind.

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Good Health May Make Modern Wars Less Deadly

Betwa Sharma | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sri Lanka, Liberia, Cold War, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, International Rescue Committee, Ethiopia, Angola, Indonesia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Korean War, India, Sudan, Iraq, Rwanda, World News

A new study finds that post-Cold War conflicts claim relatively fewer civilian and combatant lives. The reason for this observed decline is good health and the immunization of children practices during peacetime.

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Global Warming Deniers, You Will Be Denied

Wade Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bolivia, Glacial, Australia, Scarcity, Africa, United Kingdom, Antarctica, Ipcc, Colorado, Erosion, Global Warming, Mozambique, Study, Glacier, Climate Change, Water, Greenland, Sea Level Rise, North Carolina, Denver News

Insurance companies, which are based on the so-called 'invisible hand,' have seen the writing on the wall and are no longer in the business of insuring new homes on the Outer Banks in NC.

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The Right Climate for Green Energy in Africa

Lori Pottinger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renewable Energy, South Africa, Mozambique, International Rivers, Green News

The world's richest, highest-carbon-emitting nations owe it to Africa to help it develop its clean energy resources -- projects that will help in climate-change adaptation efforts, rather than hinder them.

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