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*By the early 20th century the Portuguese had shifted the administration of much of Mozambique to large private companies controlled and financed mostly by British financiers. | *By the early 20th century the Portuguese had shifted the administration of much of Mozambique to large private companies controlled and financed mostly by British financiers. | ||
*Although '''slavery had been legally abolished in Mozambique''', at the end of the 19th century the Chartered companies enacted a '''forced labour policy and supplied cheap—often forced—African labour to the mines and plantations of the nearby British colonies and South Africa.''' | *Although '''slavery had been legally abolished in Mozambique''', at the end of the 19th century the Chartered companies enacted a '''forced labour policy and supplied cheap—often forced—African labour to the mines and plantations of the nearby British colonies and South Africa.''' | ||
*Mozambique became independent from Portugal on 25 June 1975. | |||
*During Portuguese colonial rule, a large minority of people of Portuguese descent lived permanently in almost all areas of the country, and Mozambicans with Portuguese heritage at the time of independence numbered about 360,000. Many of these left the country after independence from Portugal in 1975. | |||
*An estimated one million Mozambicans perished during the Mozambique civil war (1977 to 1992), 1.7 million took refuge in neighboring states. By mid-1995, over 1.7 million refugees who had sought asylum in neighboring countries had returned to Mozambique, part of the largest repatriation witnessed in sub-Saharan Africa. | |||
*There are various estimates for the size of Mozambique's Chinese community, ranging from 7,000 to 12,000 as of 2007. | |||
*Roughly 45,000 people of Indian descent reside in Mozambique.<ref>"Mozambique", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique#Demographics, accessed 2 August 2021.</ref> | |||
==Emigration From Mozambique== | ==Emigration From Mozambique== | ||