Mozambique coal, gas: boom for all, or just a few?

(Reuters) - In Mozambique's port capital Maputo, glitzy offices, boutique hotels and fancy restaurants are popping up alongside crumbling colonial buildings, nourished by multi-billion dollar investment in coal and gas deposits to the north.

Luxury cars jam crowded streets and smart-suited business executives strut the sidewalks.

But their proximity to children begging for food and clusters of tin-roofed shacks offers testimony that the benefits of the southern African nation's incipient economic boom are out of reach for the vast majority of its 23 million people.  Read more