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Maputo - Mozambique paid the first subsidies to lower bread prices on Tuesday.
"Today the subsidies came into effect," said Mozambican Bakers' Association (AMOPAO) spokesman Victor Miguel.
After discussions the Mozambican cabinet decided to pay breadbakers 200 meticals (R39) per 50kg bag of wheat flour. Millers raised prices from 850 meticals (R167) to 1050 meticals (R206) a bag in September after a fuel price hike, the devaluation of the national currency and a hike in international wheat prices.
Riots broke out in Maputo and neighbouring city Matola in September over the price hikes, during which at least 14 people were killed and hundreds injured.
Government quelled the violence by announcing subsidisation of bread and some other basic food stuffs, as well as austerity measures for government spending.
As part of spending cuts, President Armando Guebuza cancelled a trip to the United Nations General Assembly Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals, the country's foreign affairs
minister announced.
Meanwhile, repairs started on Friday on the EN4 road from Maputo to the country's Komatipoort border with South Africa, according to state newspaper Noticias.
Road surface totalling over 3000 square metres would be retarred following damage from burning tyres, the Mozambican director of concessionary company Trans African Concessions (TRAC), Fenias Mazive, told the newspaper. TRAC manages the maintenance of the road from Maputo to Pretoria.
Repairs would take three months and cost the company over R5m, the newspaper reported.
"Today the subsidies came into effect," said Mozambican Bakers' Association (AMOPAO) spokesman Victor Miguel.
After discussions the Mozambican cabinet decided to pay breadbakers 200 meticals (R39) per 50kg bag of wheat flour. Millers raised prices from 850 meticals (R167) to 1050 meticals (R206) a bag in September after a fuel price hike, the devaluation of the national currency and a hike in international wheat prices.
Riots broke out in Maputo and neighbouring city Matola in September over the price hikes, during which at least 14 people were killed and hundreds injured.
Government quelled the violence by announcing subsidisation of bread and some other basic food stuffs, as well as austerity measures for government spending.
As part of spending cuts, President Armando Guebuza cancelled a trip to the United Nations General Assembly Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals, the country's foreign affairs
minister announced.
Meanwhile, repairs started on Friday on the EN4 road from Maputo to the country's Komatipoort border with South Africa, according to state newspaper Noticias.
Road surface totalling over 3000 square metres would be retarred following damage from burning tyres, the Mozambican director of concessionary company Trans African Concessions (TRAC), Fenias Mazive, told the newspaper. TRAC manages the maintenance of the road from Maputo to Pretoria.
Repairs would take three months and cost the company over R5m, the newspaper reported.
