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The Mozambique Company relinquished its territories back to Portuguese control in 1942, unifying Mozambique under control of the Portuguese government. The region as a whole was long officially termed Portuguese East Africa , and was subdivided into a series of colonies extending from Lourenço Marques in the south to Niassa in the north.
When the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries was founded in 1996, many Portuguese and Portuguese Brazilians arrived for economic and educational aid to Mozambique. They have helped increase Portuguese-language fluency especially in remote rural places and improved the economy, as the metical has a large value converted from the Euro .
The Portuguese gained control of the Island of Mozambique and the port city of Sofala in the early 16th century, and by the 1530s, small groups of Portuguese traders and prospectors seeking gold penetrated the interior regions, where they set up garrisons and trading posts at Sena and Tete on the River Zambezi and tried to gain exclusive ...
Mozambique soon afterward became a Colony of Portugal and was incorporated into the Portuguese Empire. As part of the Portuguese Empire, thousands of Mozambicans were shipped to Brazil and arrived to the South American nation as slaves. [1] By the 1530s, small groups of Portuguese traders and prospectors penetrated the interior regions seeking ...
Thousands of Portuguese citizens left Mozambique, and the new head of government, General António de Spínola, called for a ceasefire. With the change of government in Lisbon, many soldiers refused to continue fighting, often remaining in their barracks instead of going on patrol. [ 47 ]
In the two weeks that followed, 25,000 whites left Mozambique, about 10% of the white population. [40] Many moved to South Africa, Portugal, or Rhodesia. [ 38 ] In a statement published in the newspaper Noticias , Chissano tried to stem the white flight , telling those who were not responsible for the violence that they were welcome to return ...
Mondlane left Mozambique the same month saying he feared for his life, after two of his aides were shot dead. In a Facebook live address on Sunday, he sent out a defiant message to the authorities ...
The 24/20 order or 24/20 declaration was a Mozambican operation forcing the Portuguese to leave the country after the independence of Mozambique on 25 June 1975, or give up their passports and become exclusively Mozambican.