Five things to know about Mozambique

PARIS – Mozambique, which holds a general election on October 9, is one of the poorest countries in the world despite vast natural gas deposits.
Here is some background about the Indian Ocean country that is home to 33 million people.
16 YEARS OF CIVIL WAR
After independence from Portugal in 1975, the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo) took power and declared a one-party Marxist state.
Civil war erupted between Frelimo and the Mozambique National Resistance (Renamo), claiming around a million lives and reducing the country to rubble before a peace deal in 1992.
Frelimo has won every…