Mozambique: Mozambique Heads to Polls Amid Claims of Chinese Landgrabs – In Pictures

Oct 15, 2014 | Sara Assarsson, The Guardian
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Mozambique is holding elections on Wednesday, with the ruling Frelimo party, in power since independence in 1975, facing a testing time at the polls from the opposition Renamo party. Frelimo has had to defend itself against accusations of landgrabs after the government leased land near Xai-Xai, in Gaza province, to China’s Wanbao Oil and Grain to grow rice. NGOs claim 38,000 families reliant on subsistence farming have been forced off their land; the government says the project is creating jobs and money to invest in schools