Southern African nations are maintaining their plan to set up eventually a single currency in order to facilitate trade, Mozambique's President Armando Guebuza said on Wednesday in an interview published here.

The 14-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) would first establish the free movement of people and a common market before moving towards a single currency, he told Portuguese daily newspaper Diario de Noticias.

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