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6:07 CAT | 02 Feb 2017
O País
Informal traders in the municipality of Boane, about 30 kilometres west of Maputo, rioted on Tuesday, throwing up barricades along the main road from Maputo to Swaziland that runs through Boane.
The rioters, who were protesting against being moved to a new market, threw burning tyres onto the makeshift barricades, and ripped up traffic signs. The road was blocked for about an hour, until a strong police contingent arrived to disperse the protestors. The police made two arrests.
Traders interviewed by the independent television station STV claimed that Boane Municipal Council had destroyed their stalls, without indicating any alternative place where they could sell their wares.
The Municipality says the stalls must go to make way for a new road. The mayor of Boane, Jacinto Loureiro, told reporters that the authorities had been negotiating with the traders for three months, and had offered them space in a new market, but they are refusing to move.
“We have negotiated with the vendors, but unfortunately they don’t want to understand”, said Loureiro. “Since that was the case, the municipality had to use some coercion in order to guarantee projects that will benefit everybody”.
“All of those stalls were in the path of a road building project”, he added.
Source: AIM
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