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Mozambiquan Businessmen Urge Government to Seek International Cooperation to End Rampant Kidnapping

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Mozambique’s Confederation of Economic Associations (CTA), the country’s largest employers’ organization, called on the government to resort to international cooperation to combat kidnappings, claiming that the police have not been able to stop them.

Mozambique’s Confederation of Economic Associations (CTA), the country’s largest employers’ organization, called on the government to resort to international cooperation to combat kidnappings, claiming that the police have not been able to stop them.

The alleged inaction of members of the police who were close to the scene of an attempted kidnapping of a furniture shop manager on the 16th of January in

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Maputo, which was only foiled with the intervention of local people, as proof of the authorities’ inability to stop this type of crime, a representative of the business association has pointed out, while flagging that many businesspeople are leaving the country and disinvesting because of crime. The association insists on dialogue with the government to identify and implement solutions to the problem and urges the government to put in place a plan to combat kidnappings, which it will propose to the government.