Mozambique: Food Prices Spark Deadly Riots

The UN has called an urgent meeting on rising global food prices in an attempt to head off a repeat of the 2008 crisis that sparked riots around the world. Seven people, including two children, were killed in Mozambique this past week during three days of protests triggered by a rise in the cost of bread.



Mozambique's reputation as an African success story was badly tarnished at the beginning of this month when riots left more than a dozen people dead, and several hundreds injured.

They were triggered by the government raising the price of bread, water and electricity.

Al Jazeera's Barnaby Phillips reports from the capital Maputo.