Maputo - Maputo's municipality needs more than $20m (about R140m) to solve erosion problems along the city's Indian Ocean coast, local media reported on Wednesday. Silva Magaja, the head of the Urban ...

Literally rising. Across the city, cranes stretch up alongside new towers to house luxury hotels, corporate offices and posh condos – all with price tags that seem more like Manhattan than Mozambique.

An African beach is not at all the same thing as a beach in Greece or the south of France or Phuket. Its role is different. Maputo beach on the outskirts of Mozambique's capital illustrates this in ...