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In the central part of the Mozambique territory, the Portuguese attempted to legitimise and consolidate their trade and settlement positions through the creation of prazos land grants tied to their settlement and administration. While prazos were originally developed to be held by Portuguese, through intermarriage they became African Portuguese or African Indian centres defended by large African slave armies known as Chikunda.
Human beings were bought and sold by African tribal chiefs, first to Arab Muslim traders and sent to Middle East Asia cities and plantations, and later to Portuguese and other European traders as well. Many Mozambican slaves were supplied by tribal chiefs who raided warring tribes and sold their captives to the prazeiros. Although Portuguese influence gradually expanded, its power was limited and exercised through individual settlers and officials who were granted extensive autonomy. The Portuguese were able to wrest much of the coastal trade from Arab Muslims between and , but, with the Arab Muslim seizure of Portugal's key foothold at Fort Jesus on Mombasa Island now in Kenya in , the pendulum began to swing in the other direction.
As a result, investment lagged while Lisbon devoted itself to the more lucrative trade with India and the Far East and to the colonisation of Brazil. During these wars, the Mazrui and Omani Arabs reclaimed much of the Indian Ocean trade, forcing the Portuguese to retreat south. Many prazos had declined by the midth century, but several of them survived.
During the 19th century other European powers, particularly the British British South Africa Company and the French Madagascar , became increasingly involved in the trade and politics of the region around the Portuguese East African territories. By the early 20th century the Portuguese had shifted the administration of much of Mozambique to large private companies, like the Mozambique Company , the Zambezia Company and the Niassa Company , controlled and financed mostly by "British" financiers such as Solomon Joel , which established railroad lines to their neighbouring colonies South Africa and Rhodesia.
Although slavery had been legally abolished in Mozambique, at the end of the 19th century the Chartered companies enacted a forced labour policy and supplied cheap—often forced—African labour to the mines and plantations of the nearby British colonies and South Africa. The chartered companies built roads and ports to bring their goods to market including a railroad linking present day Zimbabwe with the Mozambican port of Beira. Due to their unsatisfactory performance and the shift, under the corporatist Estado Novo regime of Oliveira Salazar , toward a stronger Portuguese control of Portuguese Empire 's economy, the companies' concessions were not renewed when they ran out.
This was what happened in with the Mozambique Company, which however continued to operate in the agricultural and commercial sectors as a corporation, and had already happened in with the termination of the Niassa Company's concession.
In , the Portuguese overseas colonies in Africa were rebranded as Overseas Provinces of Portugal. As communist and anti-colonial ideologies spread out across Africa, many clandestine political movements were established in support of Mozambican independence. These movements claimed that since policies and development plans were primarily designed by the ruling authorities for the benefit of Mozambique's Portuguese population, little attention was paid to Mozambique's tribal integration and the development of its native communities.
According to the official guerrilla statements, this affected a majority of the indigenous population who suffered both state-sponsored discrimination and enormous social pressure. Many felt they had received too little opportunity or resources to upgrade their skills and improve their economic and social situation to a degree comparable to that of the Europeans.
Statistically, Mozambique's Portuguese whites were indeed wealthier and more skilled than the black indigenous majority. As a response to the guerrilla movement, the Portuguese government from the s and principally the early s, initiated gradual changes with new socioeconomic developments and egalitarian policies. This conflict—along with the two others already initiated in the other Portuguese colonies of Angola and Portuguese Guinea —became part of the so-called Portuguese Colonial War — From a military standpoint, the Portuguese regular army maintained control of the population centres while the guerrilla forces sought to undermine their influence in rural and tribal areas in the north and west.
As part of their response to FRELIMO, the Portuguese government began to pay more attention to creating favourable conditions for social development and economic growth. FRELIMO took control of the territory after ten years of sporadic warfare, as well as Portugal's own return to democracy after the fall of the authoritarian Estado Novo regime in the Carnation Revolution of April and the failed coup of 25 November Within a year, most of the , Portuguese in Mozambique had left—some expelled by the government of the nearly independent territory, some fleeing in fear—and Mozambique became independent from Portugal on 25 June A law had been passed on the initiative of the relatively unknown Armando Guebuza of the FRELIMO party, ordering the Portuguese to leave the country in 24 hours with only 20 kilograms 44 pounds of luggage.
Unable to salvage any of their assets, most of them returned to Portugal penniless. The new government under president Samora Machel established a one-party state based on Marxist principles.
It received diplomatic and some military support from Cuba and the Soviet Union and proceeded to crack down on opposition. This conflict characterised the first decades of Mozambican independence, combined with sabotage from the neighbouring states of Rhodesia and South Africa, ineffective policies, failed central planning, and the resulting economic collapse. This period was also marked by the exodus of Portuguese nationals and Mozambicans of Portuguese heritage, [27] a collapsed infrastructure, lack of investment in productive assets, and government nationalisation of privately owned industries, as well as widespread famine.
During most of the civil war, the FRELIMO-formed central government was unable to exercise effective control outside of urban areas, many of which were cut off from the capital.
The problem worsened when the government cut back spending on health care. An estimated one million Mozambicans perished during the civil war, 1.
On 19 October , Samora Machel was on his way back from an international meeting in Zambia in the presidential Tupolev Tu aircraft when the plane crashed in the Lebombo Mountains near Mbuzini. There were ten survivors, but President Machel and thirty-three others died, including ministers and officials of the Mozambique government.
The United Nations' Soviet delegation issued a minority report contending that their expertise and experience had been undermined by the South Africans. Representatives of the Soviet Union advanced the theory that the plane had been intentionally diverted by a false navigational beacon signal, using a technology provided by military intelligence operatives of the South African government. Machel's successor Joaquim Chissano implemented sweeping changes in the country, starting reforms such as changing from Marxism to capitalism, and began peace talks with RENAMO.
The new constitution enacted in provided for a multi-party political system , market-based economy , and free elections. Mozambique held elections in , which were accepted by most political parties as free and fair although still contested by many nationals and observers alike. In , Mozambique joined the Commonwealth of Nations , becoming, at the time, the only member nation that had never been part of the British Empire.
By mid, over 1. An additional four million internally displaced persons had returned to their homes. In early , a cyclone caused widespread flooding in the country, killing hundreds and devastating the already precarious infrastructure. Carlos Cardoso , a journalist investigating these allegations, was murdered, [41] [42] and his death was never satisfactorily explained. Indicating in that he would not run for a third term, [44] Chissano criticised leaders who stayed on longer than he had, which was generally seen as a reference to Zambian president Frederick Chiluba , who at the time was considering a third term, and Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe , then in his fourth term.
Guebuza was inaugurated as the President of Mozambique on 2 February , [47] and served two five-year terms. From to , a low-intensity insurgency by RENAMO occurred, mainly in the country's central and northern regions. On 5 September , former president Guebuza and the leader of RENAMO Dhlakama signed the Accord on Cessation of Hostilities, which brought the military hostilities to a halt and allowed both parties to concentrate on the general elections to be held in October However, after the general elections, a new political crisis emerged.
RENAMO did not recognise the validity of the election results, and demanded the control of six provinces — Nampula, Niassa, Tete, Zambezia, Sofala, and Manica — where they claimed to have won a majority. Since , the country has faced an ongoing insurgency by Islamist groups. It is comparable in size to Turkey.
Mozambique is located on the southeast coast of Africa. It is bound by Swaziland to the south, South Africa to the southwest, Zimbabwe to the west, Zambia and Malawi to the northwest, Tanzania to the north and the Indian Ocean to the east. The country is divided into two topographical regions by the Zambezi River. To the north of the Zambezi River, the narrow coastal strip gives way to inland hills and low plateaus. Rugged highlands are further west; they include the Niassa highlands, Namuli or Shire highlands, Angonia highlands, Tete highlands and the Makonde plateau, covered with miombo woodlands.
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To the south of the Zambezi River, the lowlands are broader with the Mashonaland plateau and Lebombo Mountains located in the deep south. The country is drained by five principal rivers and several smaller ones with the largest and most important the Zambezi.
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