Category Archives: Mozambique
Opinion: Dambisa Moyo’s book ‘Dead Aid’ reviewed
There seems to be renewed wave of interest in Dambisa Moyo’s book, Dead Aid, and no wonder. Her thesis is that a trillion dollars of aid to Africa has left the continent worse off than it was 50 years ago … Continue reading
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Mozambique: Food or fuel?
The rising cost of food is worrying people in Europe, the US - but even more so in Asia, the Caribbean and Africa. Here in Mozambique, people are feeling the impact of rising prices. This country lives a paradox: it is a country … Continue reading
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Mozambique: Facing a land scramble
Wide open spaces and blue skies. Huge expanses with few semi-nomadic groups sharing the land with wild animals. Fertile soil, high grasses. A railroad, the occasional road, government restricted to a few outposts. Sounds like the Wild West? Actually, I’m … Continue reading
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Mozambique: 100 per cent advocacy
The Province of Niassa, they joked to me in Maputo, é onde Judas perdeu a bota, which literally means: “Where Judas lost his shoe”. I didn’t know that Judas ever lost a shoe, but this was clearly not the point. … Continue reading
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