Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)
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June 29
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Mozambique: Living in the Shadow of a Secret State
In downtown Maputo, the walls are covered with the local newspaper, Verdade, and a range of people, young and old, male and female, are reading it. Verdade, which means Truth in... Read more »
June 28
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Southern Africa: Who Will Fund Southern Africa's Infrastructure Plans?
Mounds of sand and rubble are what are left of sections of Maputo's beachfront road as bulldozers, manned by Chinese construction workers, tear up the road that is being rebuilt.... Read more »
June 05
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Mozambique: Skyscrapers, Land Rovers in One of World's Poorest Countries
Lined up along the streets of central Maputo, Mozambique's capital city, are expensive, European-style bars and restaurants with sophisticated names like Café Continental,... Read more »
May 27
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Mozambique: Rapping the Country's Praises and Faults
Mozambique is proud home to not one, but two female rappers who are both qualified lawyers. Yveth "Vauvita" Matunza is striking. She is tall, wearing shoes with enormous stilettos.... Read more »
March 01
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Mozambique: Water - a Blessing and a Curse
As Mozambique tries to recover from the worst flooding here since 2000, experts have called for a national discussion on water management and how to maximise its usage in favour of... Read more »
February 22
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Mozambique: Mozambican Farmers Fear Foreign Land Grabs
Mozambican farmers' unions believe that soon land will become very scarce for locals as the government leases more and more of it to foreign agribusinesses - thus displacing... Read more »
October 19, 2012
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Mozambique: Cooperatives Help Women Farmers Tighten Ranks
It is a tried and tested truth that when women come together in groups they can address their issues more powerfully than they can as individuals. Read more »
September 20, 2012
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Mozambique: How the Country of the Young Is Failing Its Elderly
Carolina Poalo strikes the dry earth over and over with her hoe, her frail body bent almost double. She is determined to begin planting. During the long, dry season in Mozambique,... Read more »
July 11, 2012
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Mozambique: Mozambique's 'People From Germany' Wait Decades for Salaries
Every Wednesday at 11.00am José Alfredo Cossa unfurls his East German flag and leads a march of around 150 men and women down the main streets of Maputo, Mozambique's... Read more »
June 08, 2012
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Southern Africa: Establishing Environmental Flows in the Zambezi
When Jose Chiburre was a boy growing up in Mozambique, he would often challenge his friends to a swim across the Incomati River. That was in the 1970s, when the river was 300... Read more »
June 05, 2012
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Mozambique: Building a Company in the Country - One Peanut at a Time [opinion]
When you board Mozambique's national carrier, Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique, you will most likely be given small orange packets of peanuts to munch as the jet whisks... Read more »
May 26, 2012
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Mozambique: Selling Ethanol Stoves to Generate Carbon Credits
Along a dirt road in Mozambique's Sofala province, a long line of men on bicycles stretches into the distance, each carrying an impossibly big bag of charcoal strapped to his bike. Read more »
April 16, 2012
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Africa: Argentina Steps Up Ties With Continent
Under the banner of South-South cooperation, Argentina is seeking to consolidate its ties with Africa, starting with countries that are enjoying dynamic economic growth, such as... Read more »
February 16, 2012
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Mozambique: Nation Prepares for Dangerous Cyclone Giovanna
Over 100,000 people in Mozambique are still recovering from losing their homes and crops, and from being cut off from schools and shops after a tropical storm and cyclone hit the... Read more »
August 17, 2011
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Mozambique: Climate Change Threatens Smallholder Farmers
Long after the wintry sun set over her patch of crops outside the Mozambican capital Angelina Jossefa keeps pulling out weeds. Much of her lettuce, carrots and beetroot died during... Read more »
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