{UAH} Manhattan or Mozambique? Maputo's billion dollar makeover - CNN.com
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Maputo is rising.
Literally rising. Across the city, cranes stretch up alongside new towers to house luxury hotels, corporate offices and posh condos -- all with price tags that seem more like Manhattan than Mozambique.
Billions of dollars are pouring into the country to develop offshore gas wells. They won't start producing for a few more years, but Maputo is already taking its first steps out of poverty with a definite swagger.
Newfound confidence and optimism pervade the city, from small theaters that stage Hamlet as comfortably as reggae, to a lively restaurant scene and a renewed sense of pride in the nation's history.
When Mozambique's civil war ended in 1992, Maputo's streets had more potholes than pavement.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/16/travel/mozambique-maputo-boomtown/index.html
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