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While the populations of most cities in Africa is rapidly expanding as people leave rural areas in search of work, the situation is almost the reverse in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique.

There, more people have been leaving the city than moving to it; the small rise in its population over the past ten years due only to new born babies.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Focus on Africa's Jose Tembe investigates this unusual phenomenon.

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