Samora Moisés Machel, the first president of independent Mozambique, was born in 1933 in Gaza province, in the south of the ...

Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Monday pledged that his government will not rest until the exact circumstances of the plane crash that killed the country's first President, Samora Machel ...

The recent death of President Samora Machel of Mozambique in a plane crash has focused renewed international attention on the war in that strategic Southern African nation.For the past ten years ...

Mozambique President Samora Machel and 28 other people were killed Sunday when his plane crashed into a mountain in eastern South Africa during a thunderstorm.South African officials found the ...

Mozambican president Armando Guebuza has hailed the late Samora Machel as a hero for his role in leading the country to its independence. President Guebuza made the comment as he laid a foundation ...

It is 50 years since Mozambique achieved its independence from Portugal. But celebrations are being marred by deep divisions.

The South African government is trying to solve one of the great mysteries of the apartheid era - the 1986 plane crash that killed President Samora Machel of Mozambique. He died when his aircraft hit ...

With Graça Machel that would apply twice, first as the widow of Mozambique’s revolutionary first President, Samora Machel, then as the third wife of South African leader Nelson Mandela.

When he was sworn in as the president of Mozambique, Samora Machel was a widower as his wife, Josina, had died of leukaemia in 1971. In September of 1975, Graça married Samora Machel and became ...