Christmas in Maputo
December 26th 2007 So, we've spent the best part of four days over Christmas in the Mozambican capital, Maputo.
Maputo comes closer than anywhere else we've visited to the lazy Western stereotype of the African city: dusty, litter-strewn, pot-holed streets choked with black clouds of pollution from cars that should have been consigned to the scrapheap years ago; the better, older buildings quietly decaying whil
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