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O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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Street vendors sell their wares in Workers' Square (Praça dos Trabalhadores), near the fish market and the Maputo train and bus station in Mozambique.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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A USB key with "3.5G" written on it is plugged into a computer outdoors in Maputo, Mozambique. This device enables its user to access the Internet.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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New business district in Maputo comprising banks, a science and technology college, a hotel and a shopping centre in the Mozambican capital
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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Cash withdrawal during a lunch break in Maputo's new business district. With the suspension of IMF aid, withdrawals are limited and blocked in Mozambique.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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An office worker has just picked up his lunch in the new business district in Maputo, Mozambique.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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Advertising hoarding in Maputo, Mozambique, for a construction company with the slogan "Build", on one of Maputo's main avenues, avenue 24 de Julho.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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Fishing boats moored in the port of Maputo in Mozambique. EMATUM affair: In September 2013, CMN (the French company Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie) supplied 30 fishing boats to EMATUM for a contract worth €200 million, 24 fishing vessels and 6 defence vessels. This order was financed by a bond issue guaranteed by the Mozambican state for 850 million dollars (500 million from Crédit Suisse and 350 million from the Russian bank VTB). 650 million dollars hidden from the IMF, which decided to suspend its aid to Mozambique following this discovery. The anti-rust paint was not even applied and the revenue from tuna fishing in the first year amounted to only 1% of the hoped-for total.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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"Banco Central de Mozambico" case Central Bank of Mozambique, 2.9 million dollars embezzled in the construction of the head office. The Banco Central is the blue building in the background.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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A classroom blackboard is located at the home of a teacher who teaches English in his driveway to young people in the Mafalala neighbourhood of Maputo, Mozambique. He also gives free lessons at home. Although Mozambique is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the region, the national education system does not provide young people with a sufficient level of English to interact with their English-speaking neighbours.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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A man poses in front of his home in the Mafalala district of Maputo, Mozambique. It is forbidden to enter an administrative building, police station or church in shorts or open-toed shoes. Mafalala is a poor neighbourhood, a shanty town in Maputo, but culturally very rich. The leader of the rebellion, Zamora Meschel, rented a room here as a young man.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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One of the buildings in the new business centre in Maputo, Mozambique. Many international companies are setting up their local headquarters in these buildings.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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An office worker enters a telecommunications shop belonging to Vodacom in the new business centre in Maputo, Mozambique.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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Military officer supervising the crossing of the Espirito Santo estuary at the docks in Maputo, Mozambique. The forces of law and order control the streets, and firearms are very much in evidence.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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Mozambicans on their way to work in the workers' square (Praça dos Trabalhadores) in Maputo, Mozambique.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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On my way to the Maputo Shopping Centre, one of Maputo's main shopping centres, I ask the person accompanying me: Do you like nice cars? He replied, "Yes, but this one I don't look at. The sports cars in front of the mall belong to the sons of the manager, Mohammed Bachir, a drug baron blacklisted by the FBI but protected by the Mozambican government.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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Foreign investor coming to work in Maputo and develop business in Mozambique.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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High-standard building with commercial showcase along the Avenida Marginale in Maputo, Mozambique. A new road has developed the seafront into hotels, shopping centres, restaurants and residential areas.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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Mozambican civil engineer faced with the major suspension bridge project, contract offer given to Chinese public works companies. The Maputo-Catembe bridge is a suspension bridge located to the south of Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. As its name suggests, the bridge is intended to link Maputo to Catembe, crossing the Espirito Santo estuary. The estimated cost is 750 million dollars1. Funding and construction are being provided by China. Construction began in 2014, and it was inaugurated on 10 November 2018. The bridge is part of a larger road infrastructure project to link Maputo to South Africa via Ponta do Ouro.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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Buildings under construction in a new housing estate on the outskirts of Maputo in Mozambique.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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Abandoned house in Catembe, opposite Maputo, Mozambique. With the construction of the Maputo-Catembe bridge, the south of the country should develop.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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Currently crossed by the ferry for a Mozambican woman travelling to Catembe from Maputo. The Maputo-Catembe bridge is a suspension bridge under construction to the south of Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. As its name suggests, the bridge will link Maputo to Catembe, crossing the Espirito Santo estuary. The estimated cost is 750 million dollars. Funding and construction are being provided by China. Construction began in 2014, and it was inaugurated on 10 November 2018. The bridge is part of a larger road infrastructure project that aims to link Maputo to South Africa via Ponta do Ouro.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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A revisited traditional house found in Mozambique, here in the Xai-Xai region. The land belongs to the state and is leased for a maximum of 50 years. Progress is being made towards the landowner. Here the inhabitants receive electricity and even television via this satellite dish.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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A building guard in the new business district waits behind a security barrier for a car to arrive in Maputo,
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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Street vendors selling crisps along the edge of Maputo, Mozambique. You might think that these young people are self-employed, but they are all employed by the same person. Neighbourhood leaders come to restock their young vendors when they run out of crisps.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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A teenager from Catembe sells banana fritters on the beach. Opposite the capital, he is watching the construction of Africa's longest suspension bridge, which will provide a faster link between the Mozambican capital Maputo and Catembe, on the border with South Africa.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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"The future starts here", billboard advertising the Rani Towers hotel complex on the seafront in Maputo, Mozambique. The two towers built in 2014 are the most modern buildings in Mozambique. The building on the left is a hotel, the one in the middle is for office rentals, while the one on the right contains hotel apartments. There are two of the capital's most luxurious restaurants. Only 2 floors of offices are let. The hotel apartments are half-occupied, inhabited by expatriates from all over the world.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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A young woman walks to sell her mangoes in the capital. After 2 hours on public transport, there are only a few kilometres to go before she reaches her potential customers in the crowded streets of central Maputo, Mozambique.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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An office worker crosses Independence Square in Maputo, represented by a statue of Samora Machel, the first President of the People's Republic of Mozambique.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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Avenue Dos de Julio in Maputo, Mozambique, a very busy shopping street with all kinds of shops, here a butcher's shop.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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The Maputo-Catembe Bridge is a suspension bridge located to the south of Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. As its name suggests, the bridge is intended to link Maputo to Catembe, crossing the Espirito Santo estuary. The estimated cost is 750 million dollars. Funding and construction are being provided by China. Construction began in 2014, and it was inaugurated on 10 November 2018. The bridge is part of a larger road infrastructure project that aims to link Maputo to South Africa via Ponta do Ouro.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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On the Catembe peninsula, a young man approaches the Mozambican capital Maputo.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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Currently crossed by ferry for Mozambicans seeking to reach Catembe from Maputo and vice versa. The Maputo-Catembe Bridge is a suspension bridge currently under construction to the south of Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. As its name suggests, the bridge is intended to link Maputo to Catembe, crossing the Espirito Santo estuary.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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Pick-up loaded with a removal to Maputo, Mozambique.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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Near Lake Chidenguele in Mozambique, a rougher house with a water heater and air conditioning.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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An outlying water well in the Xai-Xai region of Mozambique. A family from a nearby village comes to get water, women and children fill jerry cans which they load into a car
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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Two civil servants chat in front of the Central Ministry for Combating Corruption in Maputo, Mozambique.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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A former business centre located near the railway station in Maputo, Mozambique. Its architecture bears witness to the colonial era. The ground floor was used for commercial purposes. This young man is a salesman for "Mkesh", selling telephone credits. The plastic box contains doughnuts, which he also offers to customers.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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A young man has a telephone conversation in the old business district of Maputo in Mozambique via his mobile phone.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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A civil servant moves around the old business district of Maputo in Mozambique.
O futuro Comenca aqui
Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium
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In the backstreets of Mafalala, in Maputo, Mozambique, this student is trying to connect to her neighbours' wifi. Laptops have become indispensable for accessing her research and lessons.
