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Africa-Press<\/a> – Mozambique<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Mozambican experts in the extractive industry say that, 16 years on, Vale\u2019s operations in the country have generated more losses than gains, and that there was no way Tete could be a Mozambican \u2018El Dorado\u2019, because the Mozambican government had no plan to truly develop the province.<\/p>\n

According to economist Thomas Selemane, the large capital movements engendered by mining companies operating in the country were the result of an international dynamic that Mozambique, for its part, was unable to internalise, with the country failing to build any agenda to control the dynamics of extractive activity.<\/p>\n

The economist highlights as one of the major problems the fact that the Mozambican government never outlined strategies from the point of view of development alternatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was never a national discussion about the different development alternatives. The country made itself available to receive investments from coal investors without internally there having been any genuinely Mozambican discussion that could put into perspective the problems that extraction brings, and all the attendant consequences,\u201d Selemane explained.<\/p>\n

In a similar vein, researcher Boaventura Monjane says that what was lost in Tete through the actions of the extractive industry is more than what was gained.<\/p>\n

\u201cTete did not turn out to be an \u2018El Dorado\u2019 [the fabled land of riches] because extraction, in its essence, when it happens in peripheral countries like Mozambique, ends up not benefiting other sectors of national life,\u201d Monjane says.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat was lost in Tete ends up being greater than that which was won,\u201d he added, citing loss of biodiversity, loss of means of subsistence and loss of employment, among others, as consequences of mining in Mozambique.<\/p>\n

The two experts were speaking on the STV\u2019s Noite Informativa programme on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. Mozambican experts in the extractive industry say that, 16 years on, Vale\u2019s operations in the country have generated more losses than gains, and that there was no way Tete could be a Mozambican \u2018El Dorado\u2019, because the Mozambican government had no plan to truly develop the province. 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