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Mozambican opposition mayor, climate fighter dies aged 57: family
AFP
2/22/2021
AFP
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Simango redoubled his efforts to build Beira s climate defences after the destruction of Cyclone Idai in 2019
The leader of Mozambique s second largest opposition party and a top mayor who fought climate change in his low-lying coastal city Beira, Daviz Simango, has died aged 57, his family said Monday.
He was transferred to a South African hospital last week for treatment, his brother Lutero Simango said in a text message, without disclosing the nature of the illness.
Simango had been mayor of Mozambique s second city Beira since 2003 first for the largest opposition party, the former rebel group Renamo, and later as an independent, before he formed his Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM) in 2009. ....

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