{"id":705,"date":"2007-11-05T06:46:28","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T05:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=705"},"modified":"2007-11-05T06:46:28","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T05:46:28","slug":"forgotten-world-106-mozambique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten World (106): Mozambique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 21 occasions now, I&#8217;ve had a week-long feature devoted to parts of the world that tend to be under-reported or even forgotten. It&#8217;s some time since I did so, but this week I am going to run another series of postings on this theme.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mozambique\">Mozambique<\/a> is a country in South-East Africa with almost 20M people which has been battered by colonial rule, civil war, floods and famine. Between 1977 and 1992 up to a million Mozambicans died from fighting and famine in a war that ruined the economy and much of the countryside. The country has been left with a legacy of land mines and amputees.<br \/>\nHowever, since a peace deal ended 16 years of civil conflict, the country has made big strides, becoming a magnet for foreign investment. Progress has been slower than hoped because in 2000 and 2001 the country was hit by floods, which affected about a quarter of the population, and then in 2002 a severe drought hit many central and southern parts of the country, including previously flood-stricken areas.<br \/>\nThe country&#8217;s politics are still dominated by political parties that are the successors of the rival armies in the fight for independence: Frelimo (which forms the government) and Renamo (which is a substantial opposition grouping).<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 21 occasions now, I&#8217;ve had a week-long feature devoted to parts of the world that tend to be under-reported or even forgotten. It&#8217;s some time since I did so, but this week I am going to run another series of postings on this theme. Mozambique is a country in South-East Africa with almost 20M [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}