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A ferry travelling from Lunga in Mossuril District to the Island of Mozambique sinks off the coast of Nampula Province, Mozambique, killing at least 94 people and leaving 26 others missing.
2024-04-7

A humanitarian aid worker for the French NGO Solidarités International and a few other civilians are killed in an ambush in the Cabo Delgado Province of Mozambique.
2022-11-20

Mozambique confirms its first polio case in 30 years in the northwestern province of Tete.
2022-05-18

Maldives bans entry to flights from South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Lesotho, Malawi and Eswatini.
2021-11-28

The Southern African Development Community agrees to deploy a "standby force" to northern Mozambique to contain the growing Islamist insurgency in the area.
2021-06-23

Islamist militants seize the port town of Mocímboa da Praia in Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique after capturing the town's military base in an overnight attack. Residents say militants have blocked all exits in the town. The armed forces and police launch a counter-offensive.
2020-03-23

Australian infrastructure and transport minister Darren Chester says in a statement that debris recovered this month in Mozambique was highly likely to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight.
2016-03-24

The death toll from poisoned beer in the Mozambique rises to at least 69 with 169 in hospital. Further, medical experts begin to question if the source of the contamination was the deliberate addition of crocodile bile or instead the often used foxglove flowers (which contain digitalis) for homebrewing locally-derived Pombe beer.
2015-01-12

A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involves beer that was deliberately contaminated with crocodile bile leaving at least 56 dead and 146 hospitalized.
2015-01-10

Somali pirates hijack a Liberian ship 80 nautical miles east of the border between Tanzania and Mozambique, in their most southerly attack yet.
2010-12-10