Certainly, Maputo, which is in the south, is much richer than the rest of the country.
Traffic jams, unheard of 20 years ago, are now a regular feature of Maputo life.
Thousands of people attended his funeral in Matola, near Mozambique's capital Maputo, on Saturday.
In Maputo, hundreds of taxis compete to ferry foreign bankers from hotels to meetings.
According to media in Mozambique, Mr Macia will be buried outside the Mozambican capital, Maputo, on Saturday.
Mozambique's capital, Maputo is a vibrant and cosmopolitan city bursting with lively sidewalk cafes and jazz venues.
And life for peasants is getting better, albeit not nearly as fast as it is for Maputo's bankers and restaurateurs.
The BBC's Jose Tembe in the capital, Maputo, says this week's clashes have created an atmosphere of fear and rumour.
Waves of gleaners sift the sweepings of Hanoi's streets, just as children pick over the rubbish of Maputo's main tip.
Even in Maputo city, poor drainage and illegal building meant that the rains caused mudslides that destroyed houses and blocked roads.
One of Maputo's landmark buildings is the train station designed by an associate of the famous French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.
The first Monday flight from Johannesburg to Maputo is not until 4pm.
But now with one of the world's largest new coal finds and a growing tourist industry, the capital city of Maputo is booming.
It will take months to rebuild properly the tarmac route between Maputo and Xai-Xai, but a bumpy dirt road reopened at the end of April.
The WFP's Lindsey Davies said eight helicopters had left Palmeira distribution centre, north of Maputo, and would deliver eight tonnes of food to Gaza Province.
Thousands gathered for the funeral in Matola, near the capital Maputo.
Vincent Marush Sando, who coordinates a domestic-cotton promotion campaign in Mozambique's capital Maputo, says Africa should place stiff import duties on used clothes from the West.
Thirty-six hours of heavy rains paralysed aid deliveries in the south on Thursday and on Friday morning, with all helicopters and planes at Maputo airport grounded.
For Working Lives, the BBC's Laeila Adjovi travelled to Maputo to meet five people who live and work in a country that is one of Africa's emerging success stories.
The road is a key element of the Maputo Corridor, a seven-billion dollar development initiative, which will eventually include a rail link, an upgrading of Maputo's harbour, factories, shops and hotels.
BBC: News | Africa | South Africa and Mozambique launch road project
Looking out across the blue ocean in front of the Portuguese embassy in Maputo, Ambassador Mario Godinho de Matos takes a more sanguine view, pointing out that the Portuguese have always been explorers.
The South African President, Nelson Mandela, and President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique have officially launched the construction of the Maputo Highway - a toll road between Johannesburg and the Mozambican port and capital of Maputo.
BBC: News | Africa | South Africa and Mozambique launch road project
The survey showed that urban households spend twice as much as rural households, and that households in Maputo spend five times as much as households in the poorest province, Zambezia, in the centre of the country.
"Our wish is to have 100% debt relief and we hope that America, Japan, France and other European countries will follow Great Britain in this effort, " he told reporters on his arrival in the capital Maputo.
The conference will build on the spirit and letter of previous DaO intergovernmental conferences (Maputo 2008, Kigali 2009, Hanoi 2010 and Montevideo 2011) to improve the coherence, effectiveness and relevance of the United Nations development system.
Dario Monteiro was the hero for Mozambique when he grabbed the winner in Maputo in the 83rd minute after he beat the offside trap and slammed the ball home from the edge of the penalty area.
However, the BBC Southern Africa correspondent says there are problems because the port in Maputo is badly run down, and there is also uncertainty about how a large integrated customs and border post between South Africa and Mozambique will work.
BBC: News | Africa | South Africa and Mozambique launch road project
If China-Africa engagement continues into the future in such an explosive fashion, there will be large communities of newly arrived Chinese traders, engineers and manufacturing professionals from Cairo to Addis Ababa, from Lagos to Luanda, from Harare to Maputo to Capetown.
More importantly, the member governments of the African Union promised in Maputo in 2003 to devote at least a tenth of their budgets to agriculture by 2008, a scale of resources orders of magnitude greater than the Gates and Rockefeller millions.
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