Sharing similar colonial and post-independence civil war experiences, Mozambique and Angola’s development paths are often contrasted, with foreign aid-dependent Mozambique hailed a success compared to oil rentier Angola. This paper questions the so-called Mozambican miracle and contrasts it with Angola’s trajectory over the past two decades. Paying attention to the political trajectory of the r...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) employ more labor-intensive production processes, make income distribution more equitable, provide simple opportunities for value-adding processing activities, making the rationale to support them a will to increase production, and technology transfer. A pertinent question arises when it is asked to what extent we should rely on them in respect to period of o...

Vaccine cold chain equipment (CCE) in developing countries is often exposed to harsh environmental conditions, such as extreme temperatures and humidity, and is subject to many additional challenges, including intermittent power supply, insufficient maintenance capacity, and a scarcity of replacement parts. Together, these challenges lead to high failure rates for refrigerators, potentially dam...

Archival images and audiovisual testimony-Negotiating the end of empire in the documentary films Guerra Colonial. Hist6rias de Cam pan ha em Mo~ambique {1998) and Natal71 {1999) 1 ABSTRAa KEYWORDS This article analyses Portuguese documentary films from the 1990s, when public archive discussions about the war of decolonization gained a new dynamic. The video series documentary film Guerra Coloni...

The Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical of the University of Lisbon, which resulted from the recent merger (in 2015) of the former state laboratory Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical in the University of Lisbon, holds an important collection of bird skins from the Portuguese-speaking African Countries (Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde)...

BACKGROUND Internationally-accredited laboratories are recognised for their superior test reliability, operational performance, quality management and competence. In a bid to meet international quality standards, the Mozambique National Institute of Health enrolled the National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory (NTRL) in a continuous quality improvement process towards ISO 15189 accreditation. ...

OBJECTIVE In Mozambique, highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) was introduced in 2004 followed by decentralization and expansion, resulting in a more than 20-fold increase in coverage by 2009. Implementation of HIV drug resistance threshold surveys (HIVDR-TS) is crucial in order to monitor the emergence of transmitted viral resistance, and to produce evidence-based recommendations to s...

Abstract In Mozambique, smallholder farmers commonly grow rice under rainfed systems with limited fertilizer application; thus, productivity remains very low. Moreover, the adoption rate of improved varieties is as low 3 per cent, partly because these usually require an irrigated environment use fertilizer. Green super (GSR) are expected to sustain high yield potential severe stress conditions....