Afonso Dhlakama, the leader of the opposition Mozambique National Resistance Movement, said April 10 that his group would conduct fresh attacks on government forces if the military does not retreat from positions near the group's remote headquarters in central Mozambique, South Africa's News24 reported.

Four policemen and one opposition activist were killed when members of the Mozambique National Resistance Movement attacked a police command post in Muxungue on April 4, local officials said, AFP reported.

Japan's government expects to soon agree to a deal with Mozambique under which coal meant for steelmaking will be exported to Japan as early as 2014, government sources said, Yomiuri Shimbun reported Oct. 29.

Mozambique's President Armando Guebuza on Sept. 26 was re-elected unopposed as leader of the ruling Frelimo party, AFP reported.

A railway line will link Mozambique and Tanzania via Malawi, the Mozambican and Tanzanian governments said, Xinhua reported Sept. 17.

Japan's Nippon Steel Corp. is in final negotiations with the government of Mozambique to acquire development rights to a Mozambican coal mine, Japan Times reported Aug. 8. Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Yukio Edano will likely visit Mozambique in the upcoming months as part of Tokyo's support for Japanese overseas coal mining development.