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What’s going on in Mozambique?

Posted by: John Phoenix There has been serious unrest in Mozambique since the last presidential election was decisively won last October by Daniel Chapo of the ruling party FRELIMO. FRELIMO has in fact won every election since its liberation struggle against Portuguese colonialism ended in victory 32 years ago. Bourgeois media everywhere are taking up the opposition’s claims of being cheated of victory by electoral fraud, but of course we have heard these cries of electoral fraud so many times before, whenever any election has been won by an anti-imperialist candidate. Moreover we have all too often witnessed the spectacle of opposition forces being encouraged, financed and armed for the purpose of overturning the election result by force, as, for instance hap...

How is Mozambique doing, 43 years after its political independence?

NOVANEWS File Boaventura Monjane The author examines the current socio-economic and political situation of Mozambique after 43 years of the country's independence from Portugal. This Monday (25 June 2018), Mozambique celebrated 43 years of independence. It was at the dawn of 25 June 1975, that Samora Machel (1933-1986) announced to all Mozambicans, the proclamation of the “total and complete” independence of the country. While the Portuguese regime lowered the colonial flag, the Liberation Front of Mozambique (Frelimo) vigorously hoisted the flag of the then People’s Republic of Mozambique. The birth of a “State of People’s Democracy” was announced, in which, “under the leadership of the alliance of workers and peasants, all the patriotic strata of society wo...

Land Grab Update: Mozambique, Africa Still in the Crosshairs

NOVANEWS By Timothy A Wise, Food Tank On October 12, the government of Mozambique quietly announced that it would close its Agriculture Promotion Centre (CEPAGRI), the agency created in 2006 to promote large-scale foreign investment in the country's agricultural sector. In a terse statement, government spokesman Mouzinho Saide gave no reason for the closure, saying only that its functions would be subsumed under a different agency in the Ministry of Agriculture. Longtime Mozambique analyst Joseph Hanlon was not so shy, reporting in his October 18 Mozambique News Report that CEPAGRI was finished because those large-scale projects it was supposed to broker: "none of them have succeeded." Hyperbole aside, Mozambique's grand visions of foreign capital modernizing its agricultural se...