Mozambique
Republic of Mozambique
República Popular de Moçambique
CAPITAL: Maputo (formerly Lourenço Marques)
FLAG: The flag consists of broad stripes of green, black, and yellow,...
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Mozambique: Independence and a Dirty War
The Conflict
Mozambique was a colony of Portugal for more than two hundred years. Following Mozambique's independence from Portugal in the early 1970s, ...
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Mozambique
Mozambique experienced almost five centuries as a Portuguese colony before it became independent in 1975. The country has had a difficult time in developing, largely due to economic depende...
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Mozambique
POPULATION 19,607,519AFRICAN INDIGENOUS BELIEFS 49.5 percentCHRISTIAN 30 percentMUSLIM 20 percentHINDU 0.5 percent
Country Overview
Introduction
The Republic of Mozambique lies on the ...
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Area: 799,379 sq km (308,642 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 19,687,000Capital:
Maputo
Head of state and government:
President
Armando
Guebuza
, assisted by
Prime Minister
Luisa
Diogo
The rains ...
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Mozambican authorities seized thousands of boxes of counterfeit toothpaste that they fear may contain a potentially deadly chemical, state radio said Sunday.The health ministry banned all sales of ...
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Water released through floodgates at a mighty dam in northern Mozambique is worsening floods that have already killed dozens of people and swept away hundreds of homes, the prime minister said Frid...
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A fire broke out and explosions rocked Mozambique's national weapons depot in the capital on Thursday, killing at least nine people and sending thousands streaming from their homes in panic, offici...
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Soldiers and relief workers using helicopters and canoes have evacuated some 60,000 people from the flooded Zambezi River Valley in central Mozambique, where more than 100,000 others are at risk, o...
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A huge clean-up operation was under way Saturday in some of Mozambique's most popular resorts as the southern African nation's fledgling tourist industry struggled to recover from a devastating cyc...
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The death toll from an explosion at a weapons depot in a densely populated neighborhood rose to 83 Friday and could climb higher, the health minister said. At least 300 injured were injured by the ...
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Mozambique's former president was honored Monday by Africa's elite with a prize of more than $5 million designed to promote good governance in a continent often blighted by misrule.Joaquim Chissano...
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Relief workers used dugout canoes, motorboats and a U.N. helicopter to rescue villagers from rising floodwaters Wednesday, but others refused to go because it would mean leaving their crops and liv...
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Maputo/Harare (dpa) - Hundreds of families in central Mozambique
have been cut off from the outside world for nearly a week by the
flooding which has reportedly claimed doze...
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Mozambique: Independence and a Dirty War
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