Mozambique
History repeats itself as insurgency ravages Mozambique
The insurgency racking Mozambique’s northern province is the third or fourth in modern times, in a region that watches outsiders grow rich on its natural resources while neglect and uprising cycle through the generations, writes Paul Ash
04 October 2020 - 00:00
On a typical sweltering northern Mozambique evening in 1973, Sunday Times reporter Kerry Swift and photographer James Soullier were tucking into lobsters at the Baghdad Restaurant in the city of Nampula when the scream of a fighter jet tore a hole in the twilight...
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