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PRELIMO MISSION IN CAIRO (U.A.R.)
FRELIMO established an Permanent Mission in Cairo on    18th
September 1963.
Brother Uria SIMANGO, Vice President of PRELIMO,and a founder
of UDENAMO, one of the parties dissolved to form PRELIMO on 25th
June 1962, will remain there for some time with brother Sarfukhan
M.KHAN, our iiepresentative.
Brother Mondlane, President of PRELIMO was present for the opening of the Office and held a press conference.
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A MOZAMBICAN WOMAN LI  the INTERNATIONAL
WOMEN'S CONGRESS AT MOSCOW
Sister Celina SIMANGO represented the League of Mozambican
Women at the International Women's Congress at Moscow on June 24
to 29, 1963.   Following are excerpts from her speech:
"First of all I wish to thank the Women's International Federation
for inviting me to represent the Women of Mozambique in this Congress-
My country is one  of the least known in Africa, if only because we
had the misfortune of being controlled by the Portuguese imperialism for many centuries. Therefore, before discussing the subject at
hand I would like to tell you a little about my country and my people'.'
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"The whole economy of our country is geared to-w^rds the satisfaction
of the European settlers, in order to make certain that the European
settlers get the fullest economic advantage from the African worker",
the Portuguese government has used many techniques of forcing our
people to work in European farms, industries and commercial enterprises , mostly in menial j obs 5 ...•••...•.	
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work in European plantations within Mozambique.".. • • < . . <>
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About the problem of PEilCE she said: "If any woman in the whole world should understand the need for peace, it is the African women in
general and the Mozambican women in particular. As African wonra. I
have overconsciousness of the need for peace partly because Africa
has not yet known peace for the last one hundred years.  Since the
European imperialist parcelled our continent into enclaves of European capitalist exploitation, they have been taking away the best of
our men to feed their economic enterprises with cheap labor, while
leaving the women and children behind to fend for existance in the
poorest conditions •lf  ............ .. j
........"We. however give our complete support to the worthy efforts
of the women of our free sister states in^the rest of Africa, who
are relentlessly putting pressure on the major powers to achieve a
workable scheme for disarmament.ff.....;	
 "All of the problem and difficulties which pur people are facing
in Mozambique cannot be changed simply by condemning them. No moralizing against the colonialists is sufficient to get rid of the situa
tion we are facing." ......"Therefore,the people of Mogambique have
decided to fight for their freedom" ,