Sporadic labor unrest and dissatisfaction continued well into the 20th century, culminating in an outbreak of riots in 1953 in which several hundred African laborers were killed in a clash with their Portuguese rulers.
A desorde laboral esporádico e o descontento continuaron ao longo do século XX, culminando nun estalido de motíns en 1953 no que varios centos de traballadores africanos morreron nun enfrontamento cos seus gobernadores portugueses.