Women's Roles in Mozambique

Abstract: (5 pp). If ever there was a suffering place, it is Mozambique. World Bank statistics show the average Mozambican making about $80 in 1994. In 1975, after a successful but brutal 15-year war of independence, Mozambique entered a brief period of euphoria before turning on itself With the support of what was then Rhodesia and the apartheid government in South Africa, the Renamo (the Portuguese abbreviation for Mozambican National Resistance) guerrilla movement began laying waste to much of the country with the explicit aim of forcing the ruling Frelimo (Front for the Liberation of Mozambique) government from power. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

Filename: BBfemmoz.doc

Pages: 5

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Subcatagory: Africa

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