Southern Africa International Affairs Report

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Edition

Letter No. 10

Creator

Ted Lockwood; American Friends Service Committee

Place Created

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Date

October 19, 1984

Type of Item

Newsletter

Length/duration

8 pages

Description

The newsletter looks at Mozambique as it faces a number of difficult choices and a future that may lead it further from its socialist ideals. It discusses FRELIMO, President Samora Machel, and the Nkomati Accord. The newsletter discusses attacks by Mozambique National Resistance (MNR), including its derailing the Swaziland-to-Maputo railroad and the Chicualacuala railroad that runs to Maputo from Zimbabwe. The newsletter reports the view of foreign co-operantes (government workers) that it is not safe to travel by road even in daytime outside the city limits of Maputo. The newsletter discusses agriculture, including rice production, and says Maputo needs 25,000 tons of cereals a month to feed...

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Publisher

American Friends Service Committee

Organization

American Friends Service Committee

Coverage Africa

South Africa
Zimbabwe

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

Rights Management

Used by permission of American Friends Service Committee.

Collection

George M. Houser Africa collection, Michigan State University Libraries Special Collections