BBC World News: Mozambique riots over rising food prices 1714 2Sept2010.mov

In Mozambique the government says a 30% increase in the price of bread WONT be reversed. It comes amid a second day of riots which have now claimed at least seven lives. Another 288 people have been injured in the demonstrations against the rising cost of living -- water and fuel prices have also gone up. The army have now been deployed in a bid to restore calm to the streets of the capital Maputo as Jonathan Josephs reports.

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[didikh]

@Lordangers Oh yes I see that

[Lordangers]

The government needs to get it's act together. If it cant hold free and fair elections then it should at least have a reason for it. Like "we dont need elections because we are prosperous under me and people may not know full story of how bad opposition is". But no these jokers just dont give a crap.

[Lordangers]

@didikh oil affects the price of your public transport.........

It puts up the price of goods that are manufactured in your country

It makes your electricity more expensive and so running water

Oil does a lot more then simply feed your car.

[sgwarrenb]

they come to buy your farmland, give you the technology, and produce food for you... yes you are right..

[sgwarrenb]

“The first thing we’re going to do is to make money off of the land itself … We could be moronic and not grow anything and we think we’d make money over the next decade” - Susan Payne, CEO of Emergent Asset Management, an investment fund in the UK targeting farmland in Mozambique and other African countries.19

In Mozambique, where MCC has another major land project, foreign investment in land is booming, and fuelling a massive rise in land grabbing...

[sgwarrenb]

letting other countries buy your farmland is not the way to solve food crisis... get your citizens who are jobless and too poor to buy any food produce their own food... its not rocket science! stop importing 'cheap' food!

[sgwarrenb]

Japan has agreed on a landmark joint venture with Brazil -- home to the largest Japanese population outside of Japan. The project is purported to bring about 'change' in Mozambique, a former Portuguese colony in southeastern Africa by transforming the savannah into arable farmland and help Mozambique attain food security.

[didikh]

Poor peoples always be the first to be improve.

Bread and water !

oil who cares over there ...with a salary of 1$ a day I dont think they could afford a car.

But bread and water it is a shame realy a shame for who vote that increase.

My wishes are for who ever arms anyone have it back 10 times the way it hurt.