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Mozambique: Yet another social protest

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 @ 21:34 UTC

by Paula Góes

Countries:: Mozambique
Topics:: Governance, Protest
Languages:: Portuguese

After Maputo, Chókuè, Bobole and Maracuene, the next Mozambican city to go under cost of living protests was Chibuto, this morning, according to Carlos Serra [pt]. The sociologist blogger says that these social protests seem to be a new phenomena in Mozambique history.

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[...] Dumas [pt] on the protests against cost of living that have been taking place in many Mozambican cities: “A crowd with no bread do not need a leader. Hunger is already a great leader. An [...]

# 2008-02-13 at 18:46 pm
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[...] Mozambicans: ‘people are out of the bottle'. He provides interpretations in the face of protests against the cost of living that have taken place in the country: “It seems that the term refers to the won sense of [...]

# 2008-02-14 at 15:01 pm
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[...] cobertura do Professor Carlos Serra pelo menos aqui, aqui [com tradução para português], aqui, aqui e aqui. Eu recomendei o texto de hoje nesse curtinha, no qual traduzi o trecho abaixo: “Na [...]

# 2008-04-6 at 19:03 pm

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