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Weapons recovery programme a success

    JOHANNESBURG

    A campaign by the Mozambican Christian Council (CCM) to exchange weapons for agricultural and other tools has so far collected more than 55,000 weapons of war, media reports said.

    The project, which aims to collect weapons used in the country’s 16-year civil war which ended in 1992, has spent about US $600,000 in the southern provinces of Maputo, Gaza and Inhambane and in the central Zambezia Province.

    The reports said the campaign will be expanded to other provinces, with priorities being the central provinces of Sofala and Manica and the northern Nampula Province. The German embassy in the capital, Maputo has already pledged US $268,000 for an eight-month period last month, added the reports.

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