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Liberation movements have been fighting Government forces in the Portuguese dominated territories in African for a decade and more. In the words of the Angolan Leader, Agostinho Neto, they are working "to free and modernize our peoples by a dual revolution-against their traditional structure which can no longer serve them and against colonial rule". The United Nations has recognized the liberation movements as "the authentic representatives" of their peoples. The struggle in Mozambique is spearheaded by Frelimo (Frente de Liberacao de Mocambique) the Mozambique Liberation Front which claims control over more than a quarter of the country.

Forest wreath for a fallen comrade-in-arms. [Exact date unknown]

The country will become independent from Spain on Saturday, 12 October, 1968. Elections for the Presidency, the Assembly and the two Provincial Councils of the new Republic were held on 22 September, followed by a run-off election for the Presidency on 29 September, all of which were supervised by a UN Mission.
Women and children await the arrival of one of the Presidential candidates during the election campaign in Equatorial Guinea.

Sir Jonh MacPherson of the U.K., Chairman of the UN Visiting Mission, is shown in this photo being greeted by a Kukukuku warrior chief upon arrival at Menyamya airport in the Morobe District. [April 1956]

The UN Visiting Mission to Trust Territories in the Pacific departed from the UN Headquarters on 4 February to investigate and report on the steps taken in the territories towards the realization of the objectives set forth in Article 76b of the Charter. The Visiting Mission made a tour of New Guinea from 15 March to 18 April.

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Headline The Struggle for Self-Determination in Mozambique

Caption Description Mozambique, which is situated in Africa, lies south of Equator and faces the Indian Ocean and the Mozambique Channel. It is 783,030 square kilometers in area and at the 1970 census it had a population of 8,233,834. In 1960 the General Assembly declared Mozambique to be a non-self-governing territory under the administration of Portugal. Because Portugal refuses to grant the people of the Territory the right to self-determination and independence, FRELIMO (the Mozambique Liberation Front) has been engaged since 1964 in an armed struggle to free the Territory from Portuguese colonial rule. More than a million Mozambicans live in the areas liberated by FRELIMO, which covers more than a quarter of the country. The United Nations has recognized the legitimacy of the struggle of the peoples of the territories under Portuguese domination to achieve self-determination and independence.

Seen here are the members of the women's detachment of the guerrilla fighters army.

[Circa 1971]

Unique Identifier UN7728554

NICA ID 102991

Production Date 01/01/1971 12:00:00 AM

Country Mozambique

Credit UN Photo/Van Lierop

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