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Mozambique
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President: Armando Guebuza
Prime Minister: Luisa Diogo
Important people of Mozambique
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22,061,451; growth rate: 1.7%; birth rate: 37.8/1000; infant mortality rate: 103.8/1000; life
expectancy: 41.3; density per sq km: 27
Population of Mozambique
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Capital and largest city: Maputo
Important places of Mozambique
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Mozambique stretches for 1,535 mi (2,470 km) along Africa's southeast coast. It is nearly twice the size of California. Tanzania is to the north; Malawi,
Zambia, and Zimbabwe to the west; and South Africa and Swaziland to the south. The country is
generally a low-lying plateau broken up by 25 sizable rivers that flow into the Indian Ocean. The largest is the Zambezi, which provides access to
central Africa.
Geography of Mozambique
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Multiparty republic.
Government of Mozambique
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Bantu speakers migrated to Mozambique in the first millennium, and Arab and Swahili traders settled the region thereafter. It was explored by Vasco da Gama in 1498 and first colonized by Portugal in
1505. By 1510, the Portuguese had control of all of the former Arab sultanates on the east African coast. Portuguese colonial rule was repressive
History
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In multiparty elections in 1994, President Chissanó won. In Nov. 1995, the country was the first
nonformer British colony to become a member of the British Commonwealth. The president's
disciplined economic plan was highly successful, winning the country foreign confidence and aid. While Mozambique posted some of the world's
largest economic growth rates in the late 1990s, it has suffered enormous setbacks because of natural disasters, such as the enormous damage caused by
severe flooding in the winters of 2000 and 2001. Hundreds died and thousands were displaced.
In 2002, Chissanó announced he would not seek a third term. FRELIMO's candidate, independence
hero Armando Guebuza, was elected president and sworn in on Feb. 2, 2005.
Democracy and Economic Growth
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On Jan. 25, 1985, after a decade of independence, the government became locked in a paralyzing war with antigovernment guerrillas, the Mozambique
National Resistance (MNR, or Renamo), who were backed by the white minority government in South
Africa. The guerrilla movement weakened President Chissanó's attempts to institute socialism, which he
then decided to abandon in 1989. A new constitution was drafted calling for three branches
of government and the granting civil liberties. A cease-fire agreement signed in Oct. 1992 between
the government and the MNR ended 6 years of civil war
Civil War