Mozambique Flag

The flag of Mozambique has three equal sized horizontal stripes. The top stripe is green. The middle stripe is black, and the bottom stripe is yellow. The black stripe is bordered above and below by a thin white stripe. On the left side of the Mozambique flag is a red horizontal triangle pointing towards the flag's center. In the center of triangle is a yellow, five-point star which has a part of the country's coat of arms in it. The emblem consists of a rifle and a hoe crossed over an open book.

The red stripe symbolizes the Mozambique's struggle for independence. The green represents the land. The black symbolizes the African continent. The yellow represents for the mineral wealth of the nation. The yellow star symbolizes the socialist beliefs of the country. The book symbolizes education. The hoe symbolizes the peasants and agriculture. The rifle symbolizes the nation's determination to defend its freedom. This is what Mozambique flag symbolizes

Mozambique’s flag was enacted on May 1, 1983. Mozambique was granted independence from Portugal on June 25, 1975. The current Mozambique flag is based on the flag of Frelimo, which is the Mozambique Liberation Front, the organization which led the campaign for independence. The Frelimo flag was virtually the same as the current Mozambique flag but without the emblem on it. It was used briefly as the transitional flag when the leader of Frelimo became the first president of an independent Mozambique in 1975. These are the flags of Mozambique. This is Mozambique flag history.

In the first century Bantu speakers arrived in Mozambique. Arab traders came to the country around the tenth century. Vasco De Gama discovered Mozambique in 1498. In 1505 Portugal created its first settlement. In the sixteenth century, the Portuguese created plantations. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Mozambique was the hub of the slave trade. In 1910 it became a Portuguese colony. In 1964 Frelimo started a guerilla war against the Portuguese. In 1975 Mozambique was granted independence and Samora Machel was elected president. For sixteen years civil war raged in Mozambique killing tens of thousands of individuals. In 1986, Samora Machel passed away and Joachim Chissano became the next president. In 1995 Mozambique joined the Commonwealth of Nations. In 2000, the river Limpopo flooded leaving one million individuals homeless.

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