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17 unusual facts about Mozambique


4th New Zealand Contingent

The contingent went from New Zealand to Beira, Portuguese East Africa in the SS Gymeric, though there was a "mutiny" on the Gymeric in Lyttelton Harbour on 27 March 1900 over conditions on board.

The contingent took more than two months to reach the front line, traveling via train and on horseback through Rhodesia and Beira.

Beirão

Beirão can refer to people or things from Beira, Portugal (a region) or Beira, Mozambique (a city).

Benga Bridge

People travelling between Malawi and Zimbabwe will not need to pass through Tete and this will help in reducing the traffic on the current bridge.

Helton Samo Cunha

Born in Beira, Tó began his senior career in 1996 with Têxtil do Punguè, and he has also played in South Africa for Jomo Cosmos.

Ibo, o sangue do silêncio

To the North of the country, the Island of Ibo was used as the jail where the Portuguese political police tortured without remorse the Mozambique nationalists.

Jorge Cadete

Born in Pemba, Portuguese Mozambique, Cadete began his footballing career with Associação Academica de Santarém at age 15, scoring an amazing 43 goals in just 18 games.

José Rodrigues dos Santos

He was born in the city of Beira, Overseas Province of Mozambique, a Portuguese territory at that time, and lived most of his childhood in Tete, Overseas Province of Mozambique.

Mário Crespo

He transferred to Mozambique where his military occupation was to check the cement cargoes from Beira to the Cahora Bassa Dam construction site, near Tete.

Mpingo

Mpingo, Mozambique, a village in Ancuabe District in Cabo Delgado Province in northeastern Mozambique

Netherlands-South African Railway Company

By building a railway eastwards into Portuguese Mozambique the settlers would have a trade route that did not run through British territory.

Ngapa

Ngapa, Mozambique, a village in Mueda District, Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique

Niassa Company

In 1904 the Niassa Company founded the town Porto Amélia, which is presently known as Pemba, and Porto Amélia became the headquarters of the company.

Operation Uric

Air strikes were planned on Frelimo installations in Mapai and Maxaila to demoralise the occupants.

St Peter's Church, Hammersmith

St Peter's Church is linked to St Bartholomew’s Cathedral Church, Messumba, Mozambique.

Throne of Weapons

The sculpture was created by a sculptor who was born Cristóvão Estavão Canhavato in Zavala in southern Mozambique.

Water supply and sanitation in Mozambique

In 2004, FIPAG entered into a three-year contract with the Dutch company Vitens under which the latter provided management support services and training in four small southern cities – Xai-Xai, Chokwe, Inhambane and Maxixe.


Adam El-Abd

On 15 May 2012, and for the first time, Egypt national team coach Bob Bradley included El-Abd in the squad for friendly games against Cameroon, Togo, and Senegal, and also against Mozambique in a FIFA World Cup Qualifier.

Albert Low

There he was employed by the Central News Agency, a company that held the monopoly for the sale and distribution of all reading matter including books, magazines, and newspapers throughout Southern Africa, which then included South Africa, Rhodesia, Mozambique, and South West Africa.

Almiro Lobo

Daniel Almiro Lobo, better known as Miró (born 30 April 1982 in Quelimane) is a Mozambican football defender who currently plays for South African Premier Soccer League club Platinum Stars and Mozambique.

Aloe aculeata

Aloe aculeata (common names include ngopanie, sekope, red hot poker aloe) is an Aloe species that is native to the Limpopo valley and Mpumalanga in South Africa along with southern and central Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

Antonio Munguambe

He was removed from office (along with foreign minister Alcinda Abreu and justice minister Esperança Machavela) on March 10, 2008, and was succeeded by Paulo Zucula, the former director of Mozambique's National Disasters Management Institute.

Brothers Keepers

The idea for the project took root in the 1990s, and when a German of Mozambiquan origin, named Alberto Adriano, was brutally killed by neo-Nazis in Dessau (East Germany) in 2000, a group of musicians decided to organize and fight back.

Centre for Human Rights

The programme is a joint project of the Centre with Makerere University (Uganda), the University of Ghana, the Catholic University of Central Africa (Cameroon), the University of the Western Cape (South Africa), the American University in Cairo (Egypt), Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique) and Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia).

Chilo sacchariphagus

In 1999 the first presence on the African continent was confirmed in sugar estates in Mafambisse, Mozambique and in 2001 also in Marromeu.

Chimanimani District

During the Zimbabwe independence war, mountain passes in the Chimanimani area were frequently used by guerilla fighters between Zimbabwe and their camps in Mozambique, who laid mines along local roads to disrupt the local economy.

Cynanchum ellipticum

It occurs in coastal scrub from Cape Town as far north as Mozambique and further inland up to 1300 m, and may be found on flats or moderate slopes, in sand or between rocks, in indigenous forests and along forest margins and thickets, frequently occurring in disturbed habitats.

Death of Mido Macia

Emidio Josias "Mido" Macia (c. 1985 – 26 February 2013) was a Mozambican immigrant and taxi driver who was killed in the custody of the South African Police Service.

DJ Brian

His distinct taste in music saw him being the first at the station to play artist such as Salala from Madagascar, Koffi Olomide from Democratic Republic of the Congo a variety of musicians from Mozambique such as Zico and Mr Bow.

Dona Ana Bridge

The Dona Ana Bridge spans the lower Zambezi River between the towns of Vila de Sena and Mutarara in Mozambique, effectively linking the two halves of the country.

Drakensberg

The absence of the Great Escarpment for about 450 km (280 miles) to the north of Tzaneen (to reappear on the border between Zimbabwe and Mozambique in the Chimanimani Highlands), is due to a failed westerly branch of the main rift that caused Antarctica to start drifting away from Southern Africa during the break up of Gondwana about 150 million years ago.

Finland–Mozambique relations

Mozambique is represented in Finland through its embassy in Stockholm, Sweden.

Gei Zantzinger

He directed and produced films about the musics of Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Cape Verde, Lesotho, South Africa, and Brittany.

Hans Rosling

He became a licenced physician in 1976 and from 1979 to 1981 he served as District Medical Officer in Nacala in northern Mozambique.

History of Mozambique

The drive for Mozambican independence developed apace, and in 1962 several anti-colonial political groups formed the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO), which initiated an armed campaign against Portuguese colonial rule in September 1964.

Janet Mondlane

Janet Mondlane and her husband, Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane were the founders of Frelimo and helped organize the liberation of Mozambique from the Portuguese colonialists.

John S. Saul

He has also taught at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, alongside activist-academics such as Giovanni Arrighi (with whom he wrote Essays on the Political Economy of Africa) and Walter Rodney; at the University of Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, Mozambique, alongside activist-academics such as Ruth First; and at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in South Africa.

Lined catshark

The lined catshark or banded catshark (Halaelurus lineatus) is a species of catshark, family Scyliorhinidae, found from Beira, Mozambique to East London, South Africa between latitudes 19° S and 31° S, from the surface to 290 m.

Longhead catshark

Records of the longhead catshark are patchy and widely spread in the Indo-Pacific region: it is known from the East China Sea, southern Japan, the Seychelles, the Philippines, Mozambique, New Caledonia, and northern Australia off Townsville, Ashmore Reef, and North West Cape.

Marang Centre for Mathematics and Science Education

In addition to South African undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate future science and mathematics teachers, would-be teachers and teacher educators come from Southern African Development Community (SADC) member nations such as Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi', Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, and other African countries.

Marcelino dos Santos

Marcelino dos Santos (born 20 May 1929, Lumbo) is a Mozambican poet, revolutionary, and statesman.

Moçambola

Moçambola (or Campeonato Moçambicano de Futebol, Portuguese for Mozambican Football Championship) is the top division of Mozambican football (soccer), and it is organized by the Mozambican Football Federation.

Mswati II

After the death of Sobhuza, Mswati inherited an area which extended as far as present day Barberton in the north and included the Nomahasha district in the Portuguese territory of Mozambique.

Nyungwe

Nyungwe language, also called Cinyungwe, a Bantu language spoken in Mozambique

P. magnus

Paragomphus magnus, a dragonfly species found in Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe

Palácio da Ponta Vermelha

The Palácio da Ponta Vermelha is the official residence of the President of Mozambique in Maputo.

Patrick Meik

The Meiks' expertise saw port and railway designs developed in many parts of the British Empire, including Christmas Island, India, Burma (the Rangoon River training works – where Patrick worked with Sir George Buchanan) and Mozambique.

Phyllocrania paradoxa

Phyllocrania paradoxa have a wide range across the African continent and its islands and can be found in Angola, South Europe, Cameroon, Cape Province, Congo basin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Transvaal, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Portuguese Army Commandos

In its history, the commandos were formed in Zemba, Angola, after June 25, 1962, in Quibala, Angola, since June 30, 1963, in Namaacha, Mozambique, since February 13, 1964, in Bra, Guinea, since July 23, 1964, in Luanda, Angola, after June 29, 1965, in Lamego, Portugal, since April 12, 1966 and in Montepuez, Mozambique, after October 1, 1969.

René Mailhot

He reported on many major events, including the breakdown of the USSR, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the civil war in Mozambique, apartheid in South Africa, and the Islamic Revolution in Iran.

Robert C. MacKenzie

In Mozambique, he worked with RENAMO, securing the release of seven Western hostages.

Ron Chippindale

He was a member of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) teams, which investigated the Mozambican Tupolev Tu-134 air disaster in South Africa in which the President of Mozambique lost his life, and the shooting down of three civil aircraft: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 over Russia and two United Nations (UN) L-130 aircraft in Angola.

Rui Knopfli

Rui Manuel Correia Knopfli (Inhambane, Portuguese East Africa, August 10, 1932 – Lisbon, December 25, 1997) was a Mozambican writer.

Simango

Daviz Simango,(born February 7, 1964)Mozambican politician and President of the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM), son of Uria Simango

Uria Simango, (born March 15, 1926) Mozambican Presbyterian minister and prominent leader of the Mozambique Liberation Movement Frelimo

Sport Quelimane e Benfica

Sport Quelimane e Benfica, is a football (soccer) club from Quelimane, Mozambique, playing in the top division in Mozambican football, Moçambola.

Szilvia Freire

She is of mixed Hungarian and Portuguese heritage; her mother is Hungarian and her father was born in Mozambique to Portuguese parents.

Tsonga

Tsonga people, a large group of people living mainly in southern Mozambique

Typhlops fornasinii

Fornasini's blind snake has been found in southern Mozambique, South Africa (Zululand), and southeastern Zimbabwe.

Unity Bridge 2

The Unity Bridge 2 is an international bridge and border crossing between Kivikoni, Songea Rural District in Tanzania and Lupilichi in Mozambique.

White-spotted Izak

The white-spotted Izak or African spotted catshark, Holohalaelurus punctatus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae, found in the western Indian Ocean off Natal, South Africa, southern Mozambique, Madagascar, Kenya and Tanzania between latitudes 4° S and 37° S, at depths of between 220 and 440 m.