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Frente de Libertaçâo de Moçambique
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by Antonio Martins, 30 Dec 2004
See also:
New FRELIMO flag
The current Frelimo flag, according to António Kitabulu Teixeira in Lusovex
(his report included a photo) is still red with the emblem on the canton,
but the emblem has changed recently, so the flag is a new one also.
At this website
are shown some Mozambique 2004 Parlament election campaign scenes, where
several variant unofficial Frelimo flags with large logo can be seen. The
logo shows on green, yellow, and mostely red backgrounds, sometimes with
a motto bellow the logo: «Partido da Paz» (peace party) -- this
is attested for the green and red variants. These flags have all mirrored
backsides, with illegible lettering; the back ground color seem to be the
colors of the logo.
The logo is a tall white rectangle with the lettering "FRELIMO" in red
bold narrow sans capitals below a square image which portrays an ear of
corn (green leaves and stalk, white grains) over a native drum (white with
red and black ornament around its belly); the background is red with diagonal
stripes along the lower right corner: Almost in the middle of the square
a white (wide) stripe, then red (wide), white, green, white (thin), black,
white (thin), yellow, white (thin) and red. These come from the national
flag (bot