Maputo — The Mozambican police detained over 50 people who erected barricades on Sunday along a stretch of the Maputo ring road, according to a report in Wednesday's issue of the independent daily "O Pais".
The demonstrators are residents of the Matlemele neighbourhood in the southern city of Matola. They told reporters they erected barricades on the road because they were dissatisfied with the resettlement of families who must be moved to make way for a new landfill at Matlemele. They could see nothing wrong with interrupting traffic on the road for several hours.
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