Mozambique – ERNST SCHADE PHOTOGRAPHY

Mozambique, Manica province, Espungabera. 1985. Women carry fresh water from the river.

Mozambique, Manica province, Cafumbe. 1987. Women carry railway sleepers away from the Beira Corridor railway line. Timber sleepers are being replaced by steel ones under a railway rehabilitation programme.

Mozambique, Manica province, Espungabera.1985. An employee waits for clients in an almost empty shop. The supply of goods was very poor in those years.

Mozambique, Sofala province, Gorongosa. 1990.

Mozambique, Sofala province, Beira. 1991. A man walks on the beach and bends down under a steel cable that secures a ship wreck.

Mozambique, Sofala province, Beira. 1991.

Mozambique, Sofala province, Beira. 199. A man walks on the beach near a fishing boat against the backdrop of ship wrecks.

Mozambique, Inhambane province. 1992. The bay of Vilankulo.

Mozambique, Sofala province, Casa Banana. 1988. Villagers peep through openings in the walls of a local health post.

Mozambique, Manica province, Bengo. 1989. This grandmother and her two grandchildren are the only survivors of a family of 12 that undertook the long journey by foot from the war-stricken Gorongosa district to this reception center of Bengo near the relatively safe Beira Corridor.

Mozambique, Manica province, Bengo. 1989. Displaced people have a meal at the Bengo refugee reception center.

Mozambique, Manica Province, north of the village of Guro on the vital road link between the city of Beira, the northern town of Tete and landlocked Malawi. 1990. A public transport bus after an attack by the RENAMO guerilla movement. It was one of the many fatal incidents in the fifteen year conflict in which hundreds of thousands civilians lost their lives.

Mozambique, Sofala province, Base Cavalo. 1990. A village for displaced people from the war-stricken Gorongosa district. A few days later this village was attacked by Renamo guerrillas and destroyed.

Mozambique, Sofala province, Base Cavalo. 1990. Displaced people from the war-stricken Gorongosa district collect water from a well. A few days later this village was attacked by Renamo guerrillas and destroyed.

Mozambique, Manica province, Cafumbe. 1992. Women collect wood near an abandoned Russian armoured car.

Mozambique, Manica province, Chimoio. 1992. A man carries firewood in the midst of a heavy sandstorm.

Mozambique, Manica province. 1992. A family cultivates their maize plot in the hills of Garuso.

Mozambique, Manica province, Mungari. 1993. During a heavy cholera outbreak a woman with a drip lays on the barren floor of an improvised health post.

Mozambique, Manica province, Guro. 1994. A ward of the old hospital in the village of Guro where thousands of displaced people sought protection from the civil war.

Mozambique, Manica province, Guro village. 1994. A patient waits for treatment in the old hospital. Thousands of displaced people sought protection in Guro from the civil war.

Mozambique, Manica province, near Chimoio.1994. Cotton harvesters.

Mozambique, Tete province. 1995. Villagers haul water from a waterhole in the Luenha river bed near Changara.

Mozambique, Tete province, near Tete. 1995. Men carry a calf away from the shore of the Zambezi river.

Mozambique, Sofala province, Beira. 1996. Inside the Grand Hotel. Built in the sixties, it served as a hotel for only a few years and is now being occupied by hundreds of squatters.

Mozambique, Sofala province, Beira. 1991. A fisherman near a shipwreck on the beach.

Mozambique, Sofala province, Savane. 1994. A wounded former Renamo guerrilla soldier in uniform is being reunited with his children.

Mozambique, Manica province, Vila de Manica. 1993. One of the frequent transports of returning refugees from Zimbabwe to their homeland Mozambique, marking the end of a long and bloody civil war.

Mozambique, Manica province, Machipanda. 1993. The 5th Brigade of the Zimbabwe national Army (ZNA) retreat from Mozambican territory. The ZNA assisted the Mozambican National Army for nearly two decades in the fight against the Renamo rebels and to safeguard the vital Beira Corridor road, railway and oil pipeline.

Mozambique, Manica province, Sanga. 1993. A woman repairs her house after her return from Malawi where she sought refuge from the civil war.

Mozambique, Manica province, Sussundenga.1994. A woman casts her vote in the country’s first free national elections.

Mozambique, Maputo. 2016. Apartment building on the Rua Agostinho Neto.