Mozambique: UN pledges $300m in aid to Mozambique

The United Nations has pledged to provide about $300-million to fight poverty in Mozambique, which is slowly emerging from a brutal 16-year civil war. "The UN will mobilise nearly $300-million for the government's poverty reduction plan to help officials fight poverty in the next three years," UN chief representative in Mozambique, resident Ndolamb Ngokwey, said late on Monday (23 October 2006).