Mozambique

AS Mozambique anxiously awaits the results of its tense general election, violence has erupted with the fatal shooting of a prominent opposition lawyer and a senior official. Elvino Dias, lawyer and advisor to opposition presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane, and Paulo Guambe, a senior member and spokesperson for the PODEMOS party, were gunned down in their car … Read more

MOZAMBIQUE heads to the polls on Wednesday to elect a new president, in a vote expected to extend the ruling Frelimo party’s 49-year dominance since independence from Portugal in 1975. Daniel Chapo, aged 47, is Frelimo’s presidential candidate, hoping to succeed outgoing President Filipe Nyusi, who has reached the two-term limit. However, his main challenger is expected … Read more