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Massi Kessi (Portuguese: Macequece) is a town near (and almost a suburb of) Mutare in the Manicaland province in Zimbabwe, near the border with Mozambique, on the road and railway to Beira. Massi Kessi is located at an altitude of 600m. It is surrounded by the gold fields of Manica, and thus has phone, water, electricity, schools and hospitals.
Massi Kessi has historic significance for a conflict that took place there on May 11, 1891, between the Portuguese and the British South Africa Company. As a result, the British government pushed through a treaty on June 11, 1891, that ensured ownership of Manica by the British South Africa Company; until then, the Portuguese colonial area had extended to the Mazoetal river, almost to Harare, Shamv and Mount Darwin.