Beira is the capital and largest city of Sofala Province, where the Pungwe River meets the Indian Ocean, in the central region of Mozambique. It is the fourth-largest city by population in Mozambique, after Maputo, Matola and Nampula. Beira had a population of 397,368 in 1997, which grew to 530,604 in 2019. A coastal city, it holds the regionally significant Port of Beira, which acts as a gateway for both the central interior portion of the country as well as the land-locked nations of Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi.
The Mozambique national football team represents Mozambique in association football and is controlled by the Mozambican Football Federation, the governing body for football in Mozambique. Mozambique have never qualified for a FIFA World Cup, but they have qualified for four Africa Cup of Nations in 1986, 1996, 1998 and most recently the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, being eliminated in the first round in all four. Mozambique are currently ranked 97th in the FIFA World Rankings, with their highest ever ranking of 66th in November 1996.
The Namibia national football team, nicknamed the Brave Warriors, represents Namibia in international football and is controlled by the Namibia Football Association. They have never qualified for the World Cup but have made three appearances in the Africa Cup of Nations.
The Seychelles national football team represents Seychelles in international football and is controlled by the Seychelles Football Federation (SFF). SFF is a member of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The team's home stadium is the 10,000 capacity Stade Linité situated at Roche Caiman in the outskirts of Victoria, the capital of Seychelles.
UTC+02:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +02:00. In ISO 8601 the associated time would be written as 2019-02-07T23:28:34+02:00. This time is used in:
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Mozambique.
The wildlife of Mozambique consists of the flora and fauna of this country in southeastern Africa. Mozambique has a range of different habitat types and an ecologically rich and diverse wildlife. This includes 236 species of mammal, 740 species of bird and 5,692 species of vascular plant. The Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany hotspot, with significantly high levels of biodiversity, stretches from the southern tip of Mozambique into northeastern South Africa.
The Malawi women's national football team is the national women's football team of Malawi and is overseen by the Football Association of Malawi.
The Mozambique women's national football team is the national women's football team of Mozambique and is overseen by the Mozambican Football Federation.
Visitors to Mozambique unless they come from one of the visa exempt countries can obtain a visa on arrival at all border posts or from one of the Mozambican diplomatic missions. The Mozambican Government announced that visas obtained at missions outside of Mozambique will double in cost as of July 2019 with a 30-day single-entry visa now costing 6.252 MZN. VOA, or Visa On Arrival remained $50 and are valid for 2 entries within 30 days however these visas cannot be renewed.
The RENAMO insurgency was a guerrilla campaign by militants of the RENAMO party in Mozambique. The insurgency is widely considered to be an aftershock of the Mozambican Civil War; it resulted in renewed tensions between RENAMO and Mozambique's ruling FRELIMO coalition over charges of state corruption and the disputed results of 2014 general elections.
The Islamist insurgency in Mozambique is an ongoing conflict in Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique, between Islamist militants attempting to establish an Islamic state in the region, and Mozambican security forces. Civilians have been the main targets of attacks by Islamist militants. The main insurgent faction is Ansar al-Sunna, a native extremist faction with tenuous international connections. From mid-2018, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has allegedly become active in northern Mozambique as well, and claimed its first attack against Mozambican security forces in June 2019.
The Mozambique women's national cricket team represents the country of Mozambique in women's cricket matches.
Intense Tropical Cyclone Idai was one of the worst tropical cyclones on record to affect Africa and the Southern Hemisphere. The long-lived storm caused catastrophic damage in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi, leaving more than 1,300 people dead and many more missing. Idai is the deadliest tropical cyclone recorded in the South-West Indian Ocean basin. In the Southern Hemisphere, which includes the Australian, South Pacific, and South Atlantic basins, Idai ranks as the second-deadliest tropical cyclone on record. The only system with a higher death toll is the 1973 Flores cyclone that killed 1,650 off the coast of Indonesia.
Victor Matine is a Mozambican teacher and football coach who became manager of the Mozambique national football team in July 2019. He has previously coached the under-20 and under-23 national teams, as well as club side CD UP Manica.
Mozambique competed at the 2019 African Games held from 19 to 31 August 2019 in Rabat, Morocco.
Volleyball and beach volleyball at the 2019 African Games were held from 16 to 31 August 2019 in Salé, Morocco.
