Desestabilização do Corredor de Nacala, 1932-1974

Abstract

The present work has as its object of study the Nacala Corridor. The objective is essentially to analyze the implications and impact of the destabilization of the Nacala Corridor between 1983 and 1992. In this work, the historical framework of the Nacala Corridor is made. noting that the existence of agricultural resources in the region of the then district of Mozambique, boosted the Portuguese authorities in the construction of the railway. A railway that contributed positively to the socio-economic improvement of the populations in its area of ​​influence. Valuing the population of the interior, providing them with easy and cheap transport, in addition to having facilitated the development of commerce in their area of ​​influence. In its area of ​​external influence it served Malawi with economy. After independence, the Nacala Corridor had critical moments. First, there was the flight of specialized technicians who left the country, which the CEM-N were sorely lacking. Then it was the destabilization war that the Nacala Corridor was targeted from the end of 1983 at a time when the Nacala Corridor Rehabilitation Project was underway, seeking to reverse the critical situation that the CEM-N was going through. Based on the hypotheses raised, we argue that the destabilization of the Nacala Corridor had negative implications and impacts for the national economy and for Malawi and that South Africa and Malawi were directly or indirectly involved through Renamo. This .war had its origins in the South African policy of “Constellation of States” which, among several intentions, aimed at the hegemony of transport in Southern Africa. To that end, it sought to block the Mozambican rail-port system with extremely negative implications for the country, including Malawi. Malawi, from the end of 1986 decided to change its position in relation to the destabilization of the Nacala Corridor, participating in its protection through the destabilization of the Naeala Corridor, participating in its protection through its army. It was clear that Malawi was second only to the destabilization of the Nacala Corridor. The signing of the General Peace Agreement allowed the completion of the Nacala Corridor Rehabilitation Project in November 1993 and the beginning of the replacement of circulating means and other materials destroyed during the war(TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)