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Faces of Moza

Mozambican highway.Mozambique Island: A vendor in Maputo cityMozambican road.

Mozambican art

Mozambican art

Prolonged drought threatens people in Manica

Thirty-six thousand people are struggling to get drinking water due to prolonged drought affecting the Guro district in northern Manica province.

Of those affected,nine thousand are residents of the village headquarters and the rest of the interior of the administrative posts of Mandi and Nhamassonje.Insufficient water from constructed sources,rivers and ponds, afforded the reduction of pasture availability for the animals.

Allied to this, the built cisterns have been dry for months,which contributes to the formation of
long queues at the few sources
of water, where people dispute
this liquid with animals.

Road accidents kill 32 people in the country

At least 32 people died and 47
others have contracted unjuries, 13 of them in serious condition as a result of 42 road accidents that occurred in the week just ended, throughout the country.

According to the spokesman of the Police General Command of the
Republic of Mozambique (PRM),
Inacio Dina, overspeeding,passenger fall, collision between vehicles and poor crossing of pedestrians were some causes of the accidents in question.

Dina was concerned with the high number of claims that, increasingly, are being registered in the country.

Citizen who dragged Traffic Police agent surrenders to authourities

Ten days onwards, the man who dragged an agent of Traffic
Police in Maputo city surrendered to justice.

Speaking to the press, Xisto
Conge said on that occasion he had been wnervous because on the
same day he was traveling to
Inhambane,where he would attend the mass funeral of his father.

"It all started when I was in traffic talking on the phone.The agent came and hit the car window, scaring me. I thought it was a thief, but then I realized it was a traffic officer",said the young man,adding that the agent was not comprehensive."She asked me for documents and in the that confusion we did not find the documents.

I asked if we could get out of there as it was causing congestion.I asked us to leave that place,but she insisted that it should be at that location,than advance.When the car was moving,
she held the hood and remained holding on to it ,"said the young man.