Life In War-Torn Mozambique | Our History

The struggles of Mozambique, from its once majestic capital Maputo, to a village where recruits are being trained for the army. Subscribe to Our History: https://bit.ly/3v5mKBG

Children in Mozambique have a smaller chance of surviving their first year of life than anywhere else in the world. Every eight minutes war, starvation or disease claims the life of a Mozambiquan child. Little boys look like old men. In Mozambique youth is fleeting. This is the legacy of 25 years of armed conflict, which has severely wounded Africa's poorest nation. One million peasant farmers have fled their homes to refugee camps, where they live on food handouts. Famine threatens one quarter of the population.. The Mozambiquan people are struggling for survival. The origins of the conflict causing this suffering is investigated, stemming back to when the Mozambiquan revolution was paralysed over a decade ago.

This film was first broadcast: 24 Apr 1990

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