{"id":176,"date":"2006-11-24T07:40:08","date_gmt":"2006-11-23T22:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wombathole.com\/dili-gence\/?p=176"},"modified":"2006-11-24T07:40:08","modified_gmt":"2006-11-23T22:40:08","slug":"mozambique-a-different-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique &#8211; a different look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine moved to Maputo in Mozambique 3 or 4 years ago and at that time, Timor-Leste had not even entered my radar screen.\u00a0 We have both had a laugh at ending up in old Portuguese colonies and two with some significant historic links.\u00a0 A few of the senior politicians here have spent quite a few years in Maputo during Indonesian times.<br \/>\nBut I have never heard\/seen Mozambique becoming a media issue over anything.\u00a0 However, my mate has urged me to exercise caution and provided a few security tips that apply in Maputo.\u00a0 Some of his advice includes :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>always travel outside work and home in a car with windows up and AC on re-circulate (to prevent the bad guys putting gas into the air vents)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>if you are on a bike (he assumes motorbike here) carry a machete or pepper spray, if you can get it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>it is essential to have barred windows on both your workplace and home, with razor wire on surrounding fences if you can get it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From his words, I have always assumed Maputo is a bit rougher than here.\u00a0 The recently released UNDP&#8217;s Human Development Report shows TL in position 142 and Mozambique at 168.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to compare some of the figures but TL&#8217;s life expectancy of 56 is well ahead of Mozambique&#8217;s 42.<\/p>\n<p>But I have never heard my mate express a desire to leave Maputo, nor have I expressed a desire to leave here &#8211; yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine moved to Maputo in Mozambique 3 or 4 years ago and at that time, Timor-Leste had not even entered my radar screen.\u00a0 We have both had a laugh at ending up in old Portuguese colonies and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/?p=176\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}