The United Nations has pledged to provide about $300-million to fight poverty in Mozambique, which is slowly emerging from a brutal 16-year civil war.
”The UN will mobilise nearly $300-million for the government’s poverty reduction plan to help officials fight poverty in the next three years,” UN chief representative in Mozambique, resident Ndolamb Ngokwey, said late on Monday.
One of Africa’s poorest countries, Mozambique is still reeling from the devastation wreaked by the 1976 to 1992 civil war that claimed up to one million lives.
But the former Portuguese colony of 17-million people has managed to lower poverty levels from 69% in the years following the war to a little more than 50%. — Sapa-AFP