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• Mozambique

  The Mozambican debt crisis: How a sovereign state was sold

  9 February 2017, by SERUMAGA Mary

  In 2013 Mozambican government officials formed three private companies and took out illegal secret loans totaling $2 billion. Donors suspended credit to Mozambique because of the loans as the national currency fell by 70% in 2016. Restructuring the illegal loans means imposed austerity on a (...)

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  Mozambican Peasants vs. the Great African Land Grab

  10 July 2014, by TRAMEL Salena

  Maputo — With a shimmering coastline stretching for more than 1,500 miles along the Indian Ocean, heartland game parks rivaling the Serengeti and a cornucopia of natural resources — located mostly in land used by humble farming communities — Mozambique is getting quite a lot of attention these (...)

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  Japanese civil society statement on ProSAVANA program in Mozambique

  30 September 2013, by Collectif

  Mr. Fumio Kishida, Foreign Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan Mr. Akihiko Tanaka, President, Japan International Cooperation Agency
  Japanese civil society statement on ProSAVANA
  Call for an Immediate Suspension and Fundamental Review
  September 30, 2013
  We, as like-minded civil (...)

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  Land Grab for Agribusiness in Mozambique: UNAC statement on the ProSavana Programme

  11 October 2012, by UNAC

  We, peasants of the Provincial Nucleus of Peasants in Nampula, the Provincial Nucleus of Peasants in Zambezia, the Provincial Peasants Union of Niassa and the Provincial Union of Peasants of Cabo Delgado, and who are all members of the National Peasants’ Union (UNAC), met on the 11^th of October (...)

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  Mozambique: Statement concerning the peoples’ demonstration on 1^st and 2^nd September 2010

  8 September 2010, by UNAC

  NO TO VIOLENCE! NO TO REPRESSION! YES TO FOOD SOVREIGNTY!
  On 1^st and 2^nd September, in popular neighbourhoods of Maputo, capital of Mozambique, and in the town of Matola, in the industrial belt of Maputo, there were extremely violent demonstrations and looting of both public and private (...)

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  “Mozambique” Sucess Story ? – Bretton Woods Backlash in Mozambique

  3 September 2010, by HANLON Joseph

  “Existing social inequalities and regional asymmetry could endanger the climate of peace, calm and social harmony that is the basic prerequisite for balanced and self-sustaining socio-economic development,” Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi warned donors on 17 May 1997 at the Paris Consultative (...)

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  Mozambique : Frelimo Rejects Criticism

  31 August 2010, by Correspondent(s)

  Jorge Rebelo, former Mozambique’s Information Minister, said in Maputo on Wednesday that there is a strong opposition to criticism within the ruling party Frelimo.
  Rebelo, who is one of the most influential members of the ruling party, was addressing members of the Youth Parliament, during a (...)