"Mozambique cuts costs after food riots" by Associated Press | September 8, 2010
MAPUTO, Mozambique — Mozambique’s government is reversing bread and water price increases that had touched off deadly riots, the planning minister said yesterday.
Demonstrators clashed with police last week in the capital, Maputo, over hikes in the costs of bread, water, and electricity. The health department put the death toll at 13.
Also see: Mayhem in Mozambique
Planning Minister Aiuba Cuereneia said after attending a Cabinet meeting that the recent 20 percent increase in the government-set price of bread — which had followed a year of steady increases on the staple in this impoverished African nation — would be immediately reversed.
He said an increase in the price of water also would be reversed, but that higher electricity tariffs would remain....
The government was cutting back elsewhere to compensate.
Like they SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOING all along!
Cuereneia said that the government was suspending stipends for those chairing the boards of public companies and increasing some customs duties.
Mozambique’s government has said that keeping food prices low is difficult because so much of the country’s food has to be imported.Notice they always have an excuse when they are not the ones starving?
The southeastern African nation grows only 30 percent of the wheat it needs.
So how much are they exporting?
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Ever notice every country in the world has hungry people?
Governments seem to have failed, huh?
