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Isolated Frelimo forgets its past
Angry, disaffected youth taking to the path of rebellion as gas wealth bypasses local people
14 November 2024 - 05:00
On a hot night in Nampula, northern Mozambique, in 1973, a reporter named Kerry Swift was tucking into a lobster at the Baghdad Restaurant when a Fiat G.91 jet fighter screamed overhead.
The pilot was Gen Manuel Diogo Neto, commander of the Portuguese Air Force in Mozambique. In between flying combat missions, Neto was running the air war against Frelimo guerrillas from his flat in Nampula, maps stuck on the wall and a radio set in the living room...
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