Royal Indifference

Tue., Nov. 16, 1999

Mozambicans showed scant interest in Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who visited the impoverished southeast African country for just 10 hours Monday, the shortest state visit she’s ever made. Few lined the streets to see her, and only 14 onlookers and some schoolchildren assembled outside city hall, where she was given a key to the city of Maputo. The turnout contrasted sharply with that in Ghana, where tens of thousands turned out to see her. While Mozambique’s relations with Britain are good, it has stronger ties with former colonial master Portugal. Several hundred cheering women did turn up to meet the queen at the Maputo International Airport. Mozambique is still recovering from a 17-year civil war which left almost 70 percent of its 17 million people in poverty, and illiteracy, AIDS and malaria continue to hamper development.

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