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Introduction





Asia

Europe and Central Asia

Middle East and North Africa

Special Issues and Campaigns

United States

Arms

Children’s Rights

Women’s Human Rights

Appendix




The Role of the International Community
In April President Chissano thanked the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and the Paris Club for measures to reduce Mozambique’s foreign debt and pledged to work on a general financial strategy called the 2020 Agenda. Mozambique also qualified for a new World Bank/IMF initiative as a Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC). In 1988, the Paris Club agreed to cut the debt by 80 per cent and granted U.S. $170 million in bilateral aid. The E.U. tried to mediate over the municipal election boycott and urged the opposition parties to reconsider their withdrawal. In 1988, the Paris Club agreed to cut the debt by 80 percent and granted U.S. $170 million in bilateral aid.

United States
The new U.S. ambassador to Maputo, Dean Curran, arrived in Mozambique in December 1997. However, bilateral U.S.-Mozambican relations deteriorated over the conduct of the municipal elections. The U.S. issued a demarche in May to the government and withdrew support for the election process alleging that transparency and fairness were lacking. USAID committed U.S. $44 million to Mozambique for development aid in 1998 and an additional U.S. $19 million through the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and the P.L. 480 Title II Emergency program. The U.S. Peace Corps opened a program in Mozambique in October working on health care issues and English teaching. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin visited Mozambique in July to support the retooling of the economy from socialism to free enterprise.


Countries


Angola

Burundi

The Democratic Republic of Congo

Ethiopia

Kenya

Liberia

Mozambique

Nigeria

Rwanda

Sierra Leone

South Africa

Sudan

Uganda

Zambia


Campaigns


Stop the Use of Child Soldiers

Abduction and Enslavement of Ugandan Children

Human Rights Causes of the Famine in Sudan

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