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	Maputo, Mozambique
		Maputo (previously Lourenzo Marques) is the sprawling capital of Mozambique, with a population of about two million people and a large harbour.
		In 1898 central authority for the country was transferred from Mozambique Island to Lourenzo Marques and the city quickly became established as the trade and industry centre and as a port to serve the gold fields of South Africa.
		Maputo's most important landmark is the Fort of Nossa Senhora da Conceiao (Our Lady of Conception) which was the nucleus of the original settlement.
	www.go2africa.com /mozambique/maputo/maputo (490 words)

	Mozambique, country, Africa. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Mozambique remains an overwhelmingly agricultural and poor country, however, with the majority of its workers engaged in traditional subsistence cultivation.
		Mozambique also derives income from handling foreign trade for nearby countries; goods are shipped on rail lines that terminate at the ports of Maputo, Nacala, and Lumbo (near Moçambique); the rail line to the port of Beira is in disrepair.
		In 1992, Mozambique suffered from one of the worst droughts of the century and from the widespread famine that ensued.
	www.bartleby.com /65/mo/Mozambiq.html (2603 words)

	Peri-urban agriculture in Maputo, Mozambique
		The introduction was devised to frame the issues in discussion, based on recent Mozambican History and on available statistical data, followed by the description of the paths that have been taken by two institutions, in order to cope with poverty, even tough their philosophies are radically different, although complementary.
		Peri-urban agriculture, on the contrary, is an economical and environmentally sustainable and increasingly important occupation in Maputo.
		Mozambique is a member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), currently the fourth most populous country, after the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa and Tanzania.
	www.cityfarmer.org /mozambique.html (2359 words)

	AllRefer.com - Maputo (Mozambique Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		The economy is dominated by the modern port, on Maputo Bay; coal, cotton, sugar, chrome, ore, sisal, copra, and hardwood are the chief exports.
		Maputo is linked by rail with South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe and by an all-weather road with Johannesburg, South Africa.
		The Univ. of Mozambique (1962) is in the city, which also has a museum on Mozambique's history, a military museum, and the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of Fatima.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Maputo.html (332 words)

	Encyclopedia: Maputo, Mozambique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The city is surrounded by Maputo Province, but is administered as its own province.
		Maputo is located on the west side of Maputo Bay, at the mouth of the Tembe River.
		In 1898, Lourenço Marques became the capital of Mozambique.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Maputo,-Mozambique (359 words)

	Panapress Official Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - A three-day conference on electoral norms and standards in Southern Africa ended in Maputo Sunday, calling for the norms to be legally binding on all Southern African Development Community (SADC) member States.
		Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - The Commander of the Portuguese National Republican (police) Guard, Mourato Nunes, is in Mozambique to discuss co-operation between both countries on police training.
		Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - At least 289 have died this year from malnutrition in the central Mozambican province of Sofala, national news agency, AIM reported Tuesday.
	www.panapress.com /paysindexlat.asp?code=eng035 (735 words)

	Welcome to the Mozambique Initiative!
		Addressing the Mozambique Initiative Consultation III in Maputo, Mozambique, the Mozambique Minister of Education, Dr. Alcido Eduardo Nguenha, described how the church, as an institution for moral development, actively contributed to the liberty of the country.
		About ninety persons from Mozambique (including 22 district superintendents), eighty five persons from the United Methodist Churches in the Missouri Area (including four District Superintendents), thirteen from United Methodist Churches of the Virginia Annual Conference (including one District Superintendent), and one from the United Methodist Church of Germany were among the participants.
		Delegates worshiped at the churches of Betania, Bento Navesse, James Humbane, Malhazine and Zimpeto in the Maputo North District; to Chamanculo, Malanga, Malhangalene and Xinhambanine in the Maputo East District; and to Liberdade, Machava, Matola, Zacarias Manhica, T-3 and Macedonia in the Maputo West District.
	www.mozambiqueinitiative.org /consultations.htm (1243 words)

	allAfrica.com: Mozambique
		A parliamentary deputy for Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party on Wednesday reminded the main opposition party, Renamo, that it is to blame for the problems the country has faced in acquiring a majority stake in the Cahora Bassa dam on the Zambezi.
		Mozambique has concluded an agreement with the former colonial power, Portugal, to reclaim the giant Cahora Bassa dam and guarantee economic independence as well as control of one of the major sources of electricity in southern Africa.
		Mozambique's Minister of Women's Affairs and Social Welfare, Virgilia Matabele, on Wednesday warned that, on current trends, the number of children in the country who have lost one or both their parents to AIDS will rise to 600,000 by 2010.
	allafrica.com /mozambique/bydate?n=1 (987 words)

	MAPUTO DEVELOPMENT CORRIDOR
		As a result no maintenance was carried out in the Port of Maputo for 3 years and thus sand banks formed in the access channels limiting their depths to 7 metres as opposed to 9,4 metres when they were originally built.
		Maputo Port has one container terminal, one sugar terminal, one steel terminal, five general cargo berths, two coal terminals, one coastal terminal, a fishing harbour, an oil terminal and a new grain terminal.
		Mozambique has a coastline that stretches for about 2,700 Km, which makes maritime transport the most economic way of carrying large volumes of cargo in the North-South direction and vice-versa.
	www.transport.gov.za /library/docs/corridm1.html (3062 words)

	Maputo / Mozambique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I'm captivated by almost everything in the capital of Mozambique: the people, the "bairros," the markets, the architecture, the avenues, the trees.
		Maputo was formerly known as Lourenço Marques (name changed on February 3, 1976).
		On December 1, 1898, Lourenço Marques became the capital of the Portuguese Colony of Mozambique.
	www.pepediniz.com /pepedinizphotography_006.htm (162 words)

	Mozambique
		Mozambique, republic in southeastern Africa, bounded on the north by Tanzania; on the east by the Mozambique Channel of the Indian Ocean; on the south and southwest by South Africa and Swaziland; and on the west by Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi.
		Two-fifths of Mozambique is occupied by coastal lowlands.
		Mozambique has a tropical savanna type of climate, with a dry season that lasts from April to October.
	www.afroyonda.info /country/mz.html (374 words)

	Maputo -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Before Mozambique became independent from Portugal in 1975, the city (then named Lourenço Marques) was the capital of Portuguese East Africa.
		During the eighth annual congress of the ruling Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), held in Matola on June 13–17, 2002, Armado Emilio Guebuza, former minister of transport and communication, was elected secretary-general of the party.
		During the colonial period the agricultural economy of Mozambique was characterized by two types of farming systems—subsistence and plantation farming.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9275679?tocId=9275679 (677 words)

	Maputo \| Mozambique Capital \| Mozambique Travel \| Mozambique Info...
		Maputo is a magnet for South African tourists, particularly people from areas like Gauteng who never see the sea.
		The Maputo Elephant Reserve, south of the city, is another traditional tourist attraction.
		MALARIA: Is prevalent in Mozambique and it is recommended that visitors to the country take anti-malarial prophylactics, especially those travelling outside Maputo.
	www.islandsofafrica.co.za /mozambique-maputo.html (423 words)

	MSF Around the World
		Mozambique is one of the poorest countries in the world - the United Nations Development Programme ranks it 157 out of 162 countries.
		Mozambique has a chronic shortage of doctors and nurses; hospitals and health centres are often in very poor condition.
		In Mozambique about 16% of young women aged 15-24 are HIV positive compared to 6% of men in the same age group.
	www.msf.org /msfinternational/invoke.cfm?objectid=1C3A8933-16B6-4CA6-B551EAE6AF5E562B&component=toolkit.article&method=full_html (918 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » International Appeal of the Government of Mozambique for Emergency Relief ...
		Mozambique is struggling with the economic consequences of a 16-year long internal conflict, which came to an end in 1992.
		The aim in addressing the education sector is to minimise the impact of floods on the school population and communities affected areas in the provinces of Maputo City and Maputo, Gaza and Inhambane provinces.
		Mozambique Ports and Railways has prepared an emergency plan for the rehabilitation of railway infrastructure in the southern part of the country in order to allow the reopening of the Ressano Garcia line to South Africa, the Goba line via Swaziland to South Africa and the Limpopo line to Zimbabwe.
	www.reliefweb.int /w/rwb.nsf/UNID/3730A84BF4ACBDB6C125688E005BE652?OpenDocument (5945 words)

	"); NewWindow.document.write("IRINnews"); NewWindow.document.write(" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		MAPUTO, 14 Mar 2005 (IRIN) - Maputo, Mozambique's capital, is bursting at the seams, setting the new city council an enormous challenge providing even basic facilities to long-suffering residents.
		Maputo is "overloaded with people", Helder Ossemane, head of communications at the council told IRIN.
		Before independence in 1975, Maputo was known as Lorenço Marques and was a holiday resort for the region's white elite, who came to stroll down its wide boulevards, sip drinks at fashionable pavement cafes and sun themselves on the Indian Ocean beachfront.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=46085&SelectRegion=Southern_Africa&SelectCountry=MOZAMBIQUE (1108 words)

	Maputo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mozambique’s main opposition party yesterday said it would take up its seats in the country’s newly elected Parliament, dropping a threat to boycott the assembly to protest alleged voting f...
		Mozambique’s most wanted fugitive, accused of murdering a top investigative journalist, has been extradited from Canada after his second escape.
		Maputo - The convicted murderer of a leading Mozambican investigative journalist, Anibal Antonio dos Santos, arrived handcuffed in Maputo on Saturday after breaking jail and unsuccessfully seeking asylum in C...
	archive.wn.com /2005/01/24/1400/maputo (502 words)

	BootsnAll.com - Maputo, Mozambique - March 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Maputo, formerly Lourenço Marques, is a lively African capital, whose many coffee shops, bars and night spots give this city a distinctively Latin feel.
		In fact, Maputo is undergoing a massive face-lift and it is almost impossible to keep up with the changes.
		Maputo is a big party town, and the party usually lasts until the next day.
	www.bootsnall.com /cgi-bin/gt/africatravelguides/mar00maputo.shtml (1523 words)

	Welcome to the Country Pages: Mozambique
		A Portuguese colony from 1752 until 1975, Mozambique's culture is now a blend of both indigenous and Portuguese traditions, revealed through the country's unique architecture, literature, poetry, and music.
		Artwork produced in Mozambique is celebrated as some of the finest on the continent, including the renowned wood sculptures and masks of the Makonde people and the country's famously large and colorful murals.
		Originally established as the University of Luanda in 1962 under the Portuguese colonial administration, the university was renamed in 1975 in honor of the leader of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO).
	www.cies.org /country/mozambique.htm (596 words)

	Maputo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Rio Maputo is fairly silty but flows freely throughout the year and occasionally floods flat plains as it approaches the bay.
		Hall-Martin (1988) suggests that historically the Reserve was the core area for a coastal population of elephants and bulls that ranged south into the area of the Tembe Elephant Reserve in Northern Kwa-Zulu/Natal during the wet season.
		Reports indicate that most of the remaining elephants in the Maputo Elephant Reserve are found in cow/calf units and were recently sighted in two relatively large groups (56 and 91) (Ostrosky 1995).
	website.lineone.net /~s.ward/MIN/98Aug/Maputo.html (2463 words)

	Mozambique
		Bantu speakers migrated to Mozambique in the first millennium, and Arab and Swahili traders settled the region thereafter.
		While Mozambique posted some of the world's largest economic growth rates in the late 1990s, it has suffered enormous setbacks because of natural disaster, such as the enormous damage caused by severe flooding in the winters of 2000 and 2001.
		The Catholic Church and conflict resolution in Mozambique's post-colonial conflict, 1977-1992.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107804.html (712 words)

	Africa: Maputo Landmines Conference
		(Maputo: 3 May 1999) At the opening of the First Meeting of States Parties to the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) hailed the very substantial progress that has been made toward eradicating the weapon as evidenced by its Landmine Monitor Report 1999.
		In the case of Sudan, landmines have killed or injured an estimated 70,000 people in the past 15 years of civil war, and there are still 500,000-2 million mines planted across the country.
		In Mozambique, the government claims to have destroyed more than 60,000 landmines and other explosive devices since a clearance programme began in 1993.
	www.africaaction.org /docs99/land9905.htm (2594 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Hear Africa 05: Maputo
		Since the end of the civil war in Mozambique in 1992, boom times have arrived - on paper at least.
		A sculpture made of weapons from Mozambique's 17-year civil war was unveiled at the British Museum yesterday as part of its Africa arts festival.
		We are running a year-long series of reports tracking the west's promises on aid, trade and debt relief by focusing on Africa's rapidly expanding cities.
	www.guardian.co.uk /hearafrica05/maputo/0,15760,1402516,00.html (372 words)

	Maputo on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Maputo police ban road demonstrations for ACP summit.
		Mozambique cleans up Maputo city for AU summit.
		Kadhafi lit un document à la clôture du sommet de Maputo Le VIH/sida est un "virus paisible", a affirmé samedi le dirigean.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Maputo.asp (747 words)

	Mozambique Mocambique on the Internet
		Has a special issue on Mozambique [page down to the bottom of the page] with a Chronology from 1962-1994, Primary Texts from the Mozambican Peace Process (The Nkomati Talks, The Nairobi Talks, The Rome Process), profiles of key organizations and countries.
		Olga Maria Lopes Serrão Iglésias Neves - "The African's censorship in Mozambique, 1926-1962"
		The Ascendance of Angoche: The Politics of Kinship and Territory in Nineteenth Century Northern Mozambique.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/moz.html (5312 words)

	Special Coverage: Mozambique
		He arrived in Mozambique on Saturday, and was being held at police headquarters in the capital, Maputo, according to the state-run AIM news agency and local sources.
		Cardoso was Mozambique's leading investigative journalist at the time of his death, and was covering a 1996 corruption scandal involving the state-controlled Commercial Bank of Mozambique.
		Meanwhile, the Maputo City Court subpoenaed Nyimpine Chissano, a son of President Joaquim Chissano, to testify in the case as a material witness.
	www.cpj.org /Briefings/2002/Cardoso_nov02/cardoso_nov02.html (4405 words)

	Mozambique on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An American doctor in the schools of hell: in Mozambique, Neil Boothby tries to heal the psychic pain of child soldiers.
		Tenth anniversary of Mozambique peace agreement marked at high-level meeting of Economic and Social Council; Post-conflict progress in many areas is lauded as notable outcome of self-help, cooperation with United...
		Kadhafi en juillet au Mozambique Le dirigeant libyen Mouammar Kadhafi, estimant avoir été diffamé par une caricature publi.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Mozambiq.asp (561 words)

	Mozambique cyclone leaves destruction \| International \| Reuters
		MAPUTO (Reuters) - A powerful tropical storm that struck Mozambique lost some of its fury on Friday but left a trail of destruction and may have forced thousands of people from their homes, officials said.
		Cyclone Favio, which has killed four people and injured at least 70 in the resort town of Vilanculos, was downgraded to a tropical storm as wind speeds dropped from a peak of 270 kph (170 mph) to between 60-80 kph (35-70 mph).
		Authorities and humanitarian agencies are already battling to keep tens of thousands of flood refugees in central Mozambique supplied with food and fresh water.
	www.reuters.com /article/worldNews/idUSL2254130720070223 (456 words)

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