One of the six men accused of murdering Mozambique's best known journalist, Carlos Cardoso, has escaped from Maputo's top security jail. A police spokesman confirmed on Monday to Cardoso's widow, Nina Berg, that the suspect, Anibal Antonio dos Santos Junior (better known by his underworld nickname of Anibalzinho), had escaped from the prison at about 23.00 on Sunday night. No further details of the escape are yet available.

This paper is a case study into the impact of an export liberalization programme on cashew farmers in Mozambique. The authors argue that opponents of the reform felt that the policy did little to benefit poor cashew farmers while bankrupting factories in urban areas. It presents an analysis into the distributional and efficiency consequences of the liberalization program, and concludes that after 10 years, there was little to show for the reform.

The UN children's agency UNICEF and the Mozambican government are set to sign a US $86 million cooperation agreement aimed at fundamentally improving the living conditions and prospects of children in the country, UNICEF said in a statement released on Monday.

A national Mozambican NGO recently formed a partnership with an international NGO to establish a HIV/AIDS capacity building programme for Mozambican NGOs and CBOs. The aim of the programme is to contribute to the expansion and strengthening of the national response to HIV/AIDS in Mozambique, with a specific focus on support to community based HIV/AIDS prevention and care initiatives initially in Manica, Sofala and Tete provinces.