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Quelimane

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Quelimane , town (1989 est. pop. 78,500), capital of Zambézia province, E central Mozambique, a seaport on the Rio dos Bons Sinais near its mouth in the Indian Ocean. It is a trade center and terminus of a railroad extending c.100 mi (160 km) into the interior. Exports include palm products, sisal, and tea. Fishing is an important industry, and the town has one of the world's largest coconut plantations. The Portuguese founded a trading station at Quelimane in 1544, and the town was an important slave market in the 18th and 19th cent. The name is also spelled Quilimane, Kilimane, and Kilimani.... Read more

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Quelimane, Mozambique Río dos Bons Sinais Founded as a Portuguese trading station in 1544 and named after the river on which it lies... Read more

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MOZAMBIQUE Republic of Mozambique Major City: Maputo Other Cities: Beira, Mo ç ambique, Nampula, Quelimane, Tete EDITOR'S NOTE This chapter was adapted from the Department of State Post Report dated April 1993. Supplemental material has... Read more

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	Live8: Africa's poorest need a lot more; than just a good gig: Part Four The Reality The message hasn't reached the people it was meant to help. Raymond Whitaker reports from Quelimane, Mozambique ; ...Berlin or Rome yesterday. But we are in Quelimane, Mozambique's poverty- stricken fourth...anything of the performances. But people in Quelimane did know of the importance of the G8...Geraldo Simoes, a 28-year-old student. Quelimane, capital of the impoverished Zambezia... Read more
	LETTER FROM MOZAMBIQUE: Check-In Time? Centuries Ago ; QUELIMANE On the sidewalk in front of my hotel, across the street from a moldy and decaying Catholic Church in this Indian Ocean...for dipping. At first I wonder, "Gee, what's that for?" Then I try the taps and they are dry. The Chuabo, like all of Quelimane, has been without water for a week. I am expected to ... Read more
	Congresses worlds apart.(News) ; BYLINE: Peta Thornycroft Quelimane (Mozambique): Why, oh why, can't Zanu PF be more like its sibling...Frelimo made it so easy to attend their ninth congress in dreary Quelimane, in central Mozambique. Accreditation was a doddle. No official... Read more
	Portuguese President Leaves for Northwest of ; ...Mozambique's Tete province to inspect the hydro-power station in Cabora Bassa upon completing his visit to a school in the city of Quelimane in the Zambezia province in the north of Mozambique this morning. This is the fifth day of his visit to Mozambique. The Cabora... Read more
	Agreement on expanding telecommunications network.(Nordea Bank of Denmark)(Brief article) ; ...extending the fiber-optic National Transmission Network of Mozambique's telecommunications company, TDM. The areas to benefit are Quelimane and Mocuba in the central province of Zambezia, and the northern cities of Nampula and Cuamba. The agreement formalizing the... Read more
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	Mozambique Launches Reproductive Health Project ; A project to offer reproductive health consultations and medical service to youth has been launched in Maputo and Quelimane City in northern Mozambique's Zambezia Province. Consultation and medical service centers will be established in the two... Read more
	Dhlakama to Visit Portugal in Mid November ; ...National Resistance of Mozambique, will start a visit to Portugal on November 15. He made the announcement in the coastal city of Quelimane yesterday. He said the purpose of his visit is to lure Portuguese investors to invest in the southern African country. He... Read more
	Mozambican Zambezia Railroad Rehabilitated ; ...with the rehabilitation of a section of 37 kilometers, which was destroyed during the southern African nation's 16-year civil war. In Zambezia, the railroad runs about 100 kilometers from the coastal city Quelimane to the hinterland town Mocuba. Read more
	Education Stressed for Eradicating Regional Gaps ; ...northern, southern and central Mozambique, the Mozambique Information Agency reported Saturday. He made the remarks Friday in Quelimane, capital city of Zambezia Province where he chaired a foundation stone laying ceremony for the branch school of the Instituto... Read more

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	Transport system upgrade begins: one of the legacies of Portuguese colonial rule in Mozambique was a very poor transport infrastructure which left many productive parts of the country isolated. The limited rail system then became a target during the civil war, adding to the logistical problems. But, as Neil Ford reports, new plans could change the picture.(MOZAMBIQUE)
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