Good afternoon. Life is never too easy for Mozambique’s non-governmental organisations (NGOs). They are treated with hostility and suspicion by the state and ruling party Frelimo, which has never really accepted that Mozambique should be a pluralist democracy and cannot stand criticism of government policy or practices. Foreign funding of NGOs also arouses envy when local NGO representatives in rural areas enjoy a better standard of living than local government officials.
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