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This is an archive of documents on Mozambique not readily available elsewhere, and references to Mozambique articles on other websites.
Last updated: 1 December 2011
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Mozambique is the most corrupt country in southern Africa, with 68% of people having paid a bribe in the past year, according to a survey by Transparency International and Gallup. More than a third of those using health services or education had to pay a bribe.
But the media in Mozambique is most trusted in the region.
Daily Lives and Corruption, Public Opinion in Mozambique, Nov 2011 (381 kb)
Daily Lives and Corruption, Public Opinion in Southern Africa (512 kb)
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Mozambique minimum wages from 1996, including April 2011 increases. Monthly exchange rate US$ to Metical December 2007 through June 2011.
Minimum wage 1996-2011 & $ exchange rate 2006-2011 (770 kb)
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A new agriculture policy puts stress on small commercial farmers, not foreign investors, and gives support to contract farming. It is more interventionist, with a return to a marketing board and input susidies. And it reverses a series of disastrous policies that had been imposed by the World Bank.
PEDSA - Plano do Sector Agrário - Maio de 2010 (496 Kb)
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The new Poverty Reducation Action Plan 2011-2014 was approved on 3 May 2011. PARP, Plano de Acção para a Redução da Pobreza 2011-2014.
PARP 2011-2014 English (680 Kb)
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Credit, subsidy and locally based research are needed to develop small-holder agriculture, which should be the focus of government policy, concludes a study of the Zambezi River valley by Jeffrey Sachs' Columbia University Earth Institute. This is a draft for comment. A sponsor of the report is Vale, a big coal mine operator.
Zambezi Basin development - consultative draft 1 June 2011 (2.6 Mb)
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Value chain finance assessment of the cashew nuts sector - April 2011 (2.3 Mb)
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Chr. Michelsen Institute has a series of three on-going studies on poverty in Maputo city and Nampula and Sofala provinces. Updates on Maputo were issued in early 2011.
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Comunicado de Impresnsa: Estudo do DIE sobre a prestação de contas em Moçambique (68 Kb)
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Child Poverty & Deprivations in Mozambique 2010 - Unicef - 27June2011 (5.4 M)
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A carbon-credits driven development project near the Gorongosa park run by two men who became notorious in the apartheid era is in trouble, according to an article in the London Sunday Observer on April 11.
Detailed report plus long set of web links, in News Reports & Clippings 161 (83 kb)
Evaluation of N'hambita Pilot Project by AGRECO Consortium (Nov 2009; 968 kb)
Miombo community land use and carbon management - N’hambita pilot project, by ODI (May 2008; 347 kb)
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Flooding in the basins of the Zambezi, Pungue and Buzi rivers led the Council of Ministers to impose a red alert from 10 to 23 March 2010. These are the official reports given to the Council of Ministers, with extensive detail on various river flows and comparisons with previous flood years.
INGC Informação Semanal ao Conselho de Ministros 23 de Março de 2010 (446 kb)
Boletim Hidrológico Nacional referente ao dia 16/03/2010 (468 kb)
Informação Semanal apresentada hoje (16/03/10) ao Conselho de Ministros (1.9 Mb)
Informação Sobre a Época. Período de 09 de Março a 14 de Março de 2010 INGC/MAE (468 kb)
Mozambique flood report 10 March 2010 (large file - 1.9 Mb)
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Budget support donors (G19) sent two letters to government in December 2009, demanding rapid moves on electoral law reforms, corruption, conflict of interest, and the overlap between the Frelimo party and the state. Budget support was suspended. On 5 February 2010 Aiuba Cuereneia, Minister for Planning and Development and the main government negotiator with the donors, sent a reply to the G19, setting out the government position and making few concessions. His letter is below. This is followed by two G19 papers from mid-February, setting out the G19 response to the Cuereneia letter. Negotiations in early March led to an agreement announced 24 March and a resumption of the flow of money.
Aiuba Cuereneia, Resposta as Preoccupações Levantadas, 5 Feb 10 (600 kb)
G19 Negotiation Objectives (17 February 2010; 184 kb)
Joint donor-government statement 24 March 2010 (English, 75 kb)
Statement of G19 head and Finnish ambassador Kari Alanko (24-3-10 5kb)
AIM report of 24 March 2010 G19-government press conference (47 kb)
Mozambique 157 with article on donor strike (8 March 2010; 68 kb)
Mozambique 159 with article on donor strike (18 March 2010; 48 kb)
Mozambique 159 clippings on donor strike (18 March 2010; 64 kb)
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Eleven studies by donors and government evaluating the most recent poverty reduction strategy, PARPA II (Plano de acção para a redução da pobreza absoluta, 2006-2009), are now being widely circulated and are posted in this website. Click on the button the left ‘Unpublished references for "Do Bicycles Equal Development?" and other documents’ and then on the subsection PRSP/PARPA.
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Detailed results from Mozambique’s 2007 census are being published on a province by province basis. One version is on the National Statistics Institute (Instituto Nacional de Estatística) website. A slightly different version, with data on some different questions, is being provided at provincial press conferences. There is interesting data on language, religion, population shifts, education, and possessions such as bicycles and mobile telephones. These are posted below, in very large PowerPoint files.
National Statistics Institute (Instituto Nacional de Estatística)
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Reports of 28 May pledges and 29 April joint government donor aide-memoire.
Mozambique Political Process Bulletin 39 - 10 June 2009 (341 kb)
Boletim sobre o processor Político em Moçambique 39 - 10 de Junho de 2009 (343 kb)
Sheridan statement of G19 pledges (Eng & Port) (66 kb)
Sheridan RC closing speech 29 04 09 (99kb)
Revisão Conjunta 2009 Aide Mémoire (366 kb)
Apresentacao Revisão Conjunta 2009 (922 kb)
Comunicado de imprensa 29 04 2009 (77kb)
Revisão do Desempenho dos PAPs (650 kb)
Discurso do Embaixador da Finlandia 29 04 09 (29kb)
Discurso do Ministro das Financas 29 04 09 (43kb)
PAF indicators for 2008 (37 kb)
The 19 budget support donors signed a new five-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Mozambican government on 18 March. There are several important subtle changes - donors have increased their scope to put pressure on government (particularly over corruption) and to be even more deeply involved in government planning processes, but individual donors have accepted a reduction in space for unilateral action.
Joint government-donor press statement (107 kb)
Statement by donor head Frank Sheridan (46 kb)
Full 2009 Memorandum of Understanding (90 pages, 566 kb)
J Hanlon report on new MoU (50 kb)
Budget support donors website - with details of reviews, evaluations, etc
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Cholera is now present in most of Mozambique, and the epidemic is becoming more serious. In the first 12 weeks of 2009, 13,000 cases were reported, with 140 deaths. This is a mortality rate of 1.1%, which is considered low. But there are already more cases than all of 2008, when there were 12,000 cases and 150 deaths.
Protestors attacked a cholera treatment centre and a prevention team in Cabo Delgado and have killed two Red Cross volunteers and a policeman. This is a repeat of incidents in coastal Nampula seven years ago, in which brigades putting chlorine in wells were instead accused of putting cholera in the wells, and were attacked. Those protests were studied by Carlos Serra and a team from Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, and published in 2003 in an excellent small book Cólera e catarse. The shocking finding of the study was that poor people strongly believed that the rich and powerful wanted to kill them.
On 17 March, at least 12 people suffocated to death in an overcrowded police cell -- most had been arrested after cholera protests.
13 dead in police cell (55 kb)
Preface & summary (English & Portuguese) to Carlos Serra - Cólera e catarse (29 kb)
Carlos Serra - Cólera e catarse - full text (Portuguese) (715 kb)
Cholera epidemic & protests at 10 March 09 (47kb)
OCHA Regional Cholera Update No3 09Jan09 (3.4 Mb)
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A daily Bulletin is being published during the election period
To subscribe: Para assinar:
In English: http://tinyurl.com/mz-en-sub
Em Português: http://tinyurl.com/mz-pt-sub
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There is also a website with additional material, including text messages from "citizen correspondents":
In English: http://www.cip.org.mz/pub2008/index_en.asp
Em Português: http://www.cip.org.mz/pub2008/
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Is Mozambique an African success story? It has 7% a year growth rate and substantial foreign investment. It is the donors' model pupil, but poverty is increasing. The number of bicycles has doubled and this is often cited as the symbol of development. In his book, Do bicycles equal development in Mozambique? Joseph Hanlon challenges key assumptions of both the donors and the government. The book has been published in Portuguese and will be available in English in November.
Hanlon e Smart lançam livro sobre Moçambique
A report on an accident at the Massingir dam in May 2008 points to errors in the original construction and in recent repairs. The accident caused major damage and will reduce the water available for biofuel and rice production.
AIM summary of official report (36 kb)
Comissão de inquérito ao acidente da barragem de Massingir - Relatório (780 kb)
High ranking officials in the National Social Security Institute (INSS) stole $8 million between 2002 and 2008, according to a commission of enquiry set up by Labour Minister Helena Taipo following denunciations of serious irregularities. In an unprecedented action, a summary of the commission report was published by Taipo on 3 June 2008. It names the ministry officials and companies involved in the frauds.
Ministry of Labour report on inquiry commission (212 kb)
More than 36,000 Mozambicans fled the attacks on foreigners in South Africa. At least 23 Mozambicans have been killed. Below are reports from the Mozambican National Disaster Management Institute (Instituto Nacional de Gestão de Calamidades) and from the Mozambican press agency AIM. On 2 June 2008 the emergency phase of the repatriation was declared as over. Several thousand Mozambicans remained in emergency centres in South Africa set up by the Mozambican government, but they decided not to return to Mozambique, hoping the violence would end.
End of emergency 2.6.8 (84 kb)
Instituto Nacional de Gestão de Calamidades special report 6 - 27.05.08 (268 kb)
Mozambican death toll now 23 - AIM 26.05.08 (23 kb)
Mozambique government reports on the 2008 floods from January and February, the worst of the flood period, are posted here. They include Boletims Hidrológico Nacional (BHN) issued daily by DNA (Direcção Nacional de Águas) and irregular reports issued by INGC (Instituto Nacional de Gestão de Calamidades) and CANOE (Centro Nacional Operativo de Emergência).
Cyclone Jokwe 9 March 2008 (44 kb)
