Mozambique

Violence And Extraction In Mozambique

November 14, 2024 Tunde Osazua, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Mozambique, Neoliberalism, State Repression, Western colonialism

As Mozambique faces a new wave of repression following disputed elections, it’s clear that the FRELIMO-led government’s response is less an aberration and more a continuation of its entrenched hold on power. The revolutionary origins of FRELIMO, once a proud symbol of liberation from Portuguese colonialism, have long been diluted by neoliberal policies, corruption, and alignment with international finance capital. FRELIMO’s current predicament is emblematic of a once revolutionary party that has sold out from its revolutionary origins and is now contending with an emerging and formidable political force.

Inside The Campaign To Stop The Largest Gas Projects In Africa

March 1, 2024 Ilham Rawoot, Waging Nonviolence. Organize! Africa, Fossil Fuels, LNG, Mozambique, Oil and Gas

In Mozambique’s northernmost province of Cabo Delgado, multinational giants TotalEnergies, ExxonMobil, Eni and others are developing three liquid natural gas, or LNG, projects. They will cost $50 billion, making them the largest LNG projects in Africa. Only one of these projects has started gas extraction, and already the industry has brought devastating consequences for communities, the land and climate — and has pushed the poor country further into debt. However, the industry has a thorn in its side: the international Say No to Gas! campaign, which won’t let it get away with its actions without a fight.

People’s Health Tribunal Finds Shell And Total Energy Guilty

May 25, 2023 People's Health Dispatch. Resist! Africa, health, Mozambique, Niger Delta, Oil and Gas, Shell Oil, Total Energy

A panel of environmental and human rights activists acted as judges in a People’s Health Tribunal organized by African communities impacted by the operations of extractive corporations Shell and Total Energy. Supported by organizations like Medact, We the People, the People’s Health Movement, #STOPEACOP, and others, they found the corporations guilty of harming the health of people across Africa. Nnimmo Bassey, Jacqueline Patterson, Kanahaus Manuel, and Dimah Mahmoud condemned Shell and Total’s activities, stating that they were “extremely harmful to the livelihoods, health, right to shelter, quality of life, right to live in dignity, quality of environment, right to live free of discrimination and oppression, right to clean water, and right to self-determination.”

Mozambique: It Began With Twelve, How Will It End?

April 11, 2021 Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.), Antiwar.com. Educate! AFRICOM, Mozambique, Natural Resources, US Imperialism

White faces in fatigues – I’m sure that’s just what most Mozambicans were hoping to see upon their shores. After all, it certainly isn’t the first time. Ever since the Portuguese started planting trading posts and forts on what was known as the Swahili Coast around the year 1500, an arrival of armed whites has never really ended well for the locals. Now, if half a millennium late to the party, America recently shipped an army special forces detachment to the country.

In The Wake Of Cyclone Idai, The North Has A Climate Debt To Pay

April 12, 2019 By William Minter, Fpif.org Educate! Climate Change, Mozambique, Natural Disasters

Weeks after Cyclone Idai struck the coast of Mozambique, near Beira, the flood waters have receded to reveal a shattered landscape. Houses and roads were washed away; crops awaiting harvest were destroyed. Confirmed deaths number in the high hundreds across Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi, with the total still unknown. Emphasis has shifted from the rescue of survivors clinging to treetops and rooftops to provision of food, housing, and medical care for hundreds of thousands left homeless.

Mozambique Floods Cover More Ground Than NYC, Chicago, D.C. & Boston — Combined

March 31, 2019 By Eric Holthaus, Grist Educate! climate crisis, Flooding, Mozambique

Post-flood satellite images of Mozambique show that Cyclone Idai submerged about 835 square miles of homes and fields — an area larger than New York City, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Boston combined. Aid workers in Mozambique describe the floodwaters as “inland oceans extending for miles and miles.” Idai’s official death toll in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi reached 761 on Monday, but that total will surely rise. There are reports of hundreds of bodies alongside a single road as floodwaters began to recede.

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