Euro Expat living in Mozambique

Mozambique has made good progress in getting kids into school over the last few years and most children now at least start primary school.*  This week the government announced that there was no shortage of places for kids to enroll in school in Maputo...

50 years united in the struggle against poverty. 10th congress. Frelimo force of change.
Finding some 30 leaflets in one’s garden is a bit worrying, especially when they’ve come from a plane. Somehow, throwing leaflets out of plane seems a rather desperate way of communicating. These days it makes mainly sense in conflict situations...

Here’s how to maintain your grip on the electorate: keep them drunk with low alcohol taxes, hand out building permits for churches that preach to stay away from politics, and gain control over the music scene to silence any popular sound of dissent...

An unfinished eyesore on Maputo’s beachfront.  The developers clearly have a liquidity crisis-  but is this drugs or global crisis related?
Radisson have been building this huge hotel on Maputo’s ‘marginal’ or sea road for the last couple of years. It is not ugly per se but horribly out of place and ruins the skyline.  Construction was progressing fast and according to...