[ noun ] a port city in eastern Mozambique on the Mozambique Channel <noun.location>
AIM said about 50 guerrillas attacked Beira's suburb of Inhamizua late Saturday night while residents were dancing and singing at a neighborhood fair.
For the last few months, quiet has prevailed in the Beira Corridor ascending from the port of Beira, through nearly 200 miles of fertile savanna flecked with forests and swamps, to the Vumba Mountains of Zimbabwe.
For the last few months, quiet has prevailed in the Beira Corridor ascending from the port of Beira, through nearly 200 miles of fertile savanna flecked with forests and swamps, to the Vumba Mountains of Zimbabwe.
The statement said rebel forces on Monday killed 20 Mozambique government soldiers and nine Zimbabweans in clashes near Vila de Mungari, southwest of the coastal city of Beira.
Maintaining the Mozambique pot on the boil, with Zimbabwe's energies diverted by the war, its coffers draining into it, and the Beira corridor (Zimbabwe's only non-South African route to the sea) unreliable, is all to Pretoria's advantage.
Were it free from guerrilla attack, the Beira Corridor could provide black southern African countries with an alternative to the present practice of moving the bulk of their trade through South Africa.
It is not growth." Most of the Beira railroad track has been relaid with concrete ties instead of timber ones, Canadian rails, and heavier ballast. It is much harder to sabotage and an explosion is less likely to derail a train.