Donors Reduce Aid to Mozambique

The donors, who have been treating the country as a special case due to its war-torn past, have now decided not to increase the budget support to the country for 2011.

They are apparently disappointment over governance, lack of commitment to fight corruption and the exclusion of parties at last year's elections.

The outgoing chairperson of the donor group, known as the G19, Finnish ambassador, Kari Alanko, was quoted as saying that, " ... the fact that in some areas of governance performance is considered unsatisfactory has caused some [donors] to reduce their pledges in relation to what had been in their long-term plans."

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