March 26
Mozambique: A Week Later Attendance is Still Slow in Nampula
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings
Our correspondents in Nampula report that potential voters are abandoning the voter registration posts because of the slowness in registering voters. Questions are being raised if… Read more »
Mozambique: Registration May Stop for Several Days in Maputo and Matola
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings
Our correspondents in the cities of Maputo and Matola, and in the surrounding districts, report a sombre scenario in which the schools where voter registration brigades had been… Read more »
Mozambique: Two Confirmed Dead in Maputo Floods
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Two people are known to have died in the torrential rains that devastated Maputo on Sunday and Monday, according to the Municipal Council. Read more »
Mozambique: In Tambara, Compulsory Donations to Frelimo
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings
Frelimo has obliged all public employees who occupy positions of leadership to contribute between 500 and 5,000 meticais to pay an allowance to the Frelimo monitors in Tambara… Read more »
Mozambique: Thanks to Donors, Registration Started in Rain, Causing Problems
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings
Rain has disrupted registration across the country, and heavy cloud means that solar panels are not working well. This is because Mozambique has 14 different law governing… Read more »
March 25
Southern Africa: SADC Leaders Reaffirm Commitment to Helping Resolve Conflicts in DRC, Mozambique
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Leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) on Saturday reaffirmed their commitment to providing both diplomatic and military support to find lasting solutions to… Read more »
Mozambique: Nampula Recorded Breakdowns and Power Cuts
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings
Equipment problems plus power cuts and rain continue across the country. This is a report of Nampula province on the seventh day of voter registration, Thursday 21 March. Nampula… Read more »
Mozambique: Priority Voters in Larde, Nampula
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings
On the sixth day of registration, brigade 410 at Nathere EPC, in Larde, Nampula, facilitated queue jumping of “priority voters”. To disguise this, and to deceive the… Read more »
Mozambique: Illicit Charges Denounced in Cabo Delgado and Nampula
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings
After the denunciation made by our correspondents in Niassa, today there are reports of illicit charges at the voter registration post in Cabo Delgado and Nampula. At the Nanhala… Read more »
Mozambique: Battery Run Down as Computer Used for Games
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings
In Balama district, Cabo Delgado, brigade members have nobody to register, and use their Mobile-IDs (registration computers) to play video games, which runs down the charge of the… Read more »
Mozambique: Four Provinces Have Still Not Accredited CIP Correspondents
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings
In Gaza and Tete the credentials for CIP were finally delivered today last week. But in Maputo City, and in Maputo, Nampula and Zambézia provinces, we still have no… Read more »
Mozambique: Supervisor Abandons Post to Take Part in Frelimo Event
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings
The supervisor of the voter registration post at the primary school in Murrupula-sede, Nampula, abandoned his post on 19 March, to participate in the meeting which formalised the… Read more »
Mozambique: Rain Halts Registration in Maputo
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings
Torrential rain and flooding today (Sunday 24 March) caused widespread closures of registration posts in Maputo city, Matola and other zones in the south. Heavy rain is predicted… Read more »
Mozambique: Frelimo Collecting Information From Registration Computers in Namacurra
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings
In Gaza and Tete the credentials for CIP were finally delivered last week. But in Maputo City, and in Maputo, Nampula and Zambézia provinces, we still have no credentials… Read more »
Mozambique: Solar Panel Problems
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings
There are solar panels in registration posts which are off the electricity grid. But they do not generate enough electricity to power the Mobiles. This is the case with the posts… Read more »
March 07
Mozambique: Again, CNE Has More Registration Brigades in Frelimo zones
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings
Placement of registration brigades has been published, and again there will be more teams in Frelimo areas than in Renamo ones, making it harder for Renamo voters to register. We… Read more »
Mozambique: Reward for Marromeu Chaos
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings
Daniel Cuzaminho, STAE district director in Marromeu, was dismissed for organising the total chaos of the 11 October municipal elections that forced a 10 December re-run which was… Read more »
Mozambique: CNE Expects 16.4 Million Voters for Next October's Elections
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings
The National Elections Commission (CNE) on 22 February announced that it expects there will be 16.4 million voters registered for the general elections of 9 October, of whom… Read more »
Mozambique: STAE Sacks Beira Head for "Beira Supervisors" WhatsApp Group
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings
Beira City STAE District Director, Carlos do Rosario, was dismissed for his involvement in the creation of an illicit WhatsApp group, named "Beira Supervisors". Messages from the… Read more »
Mozambique: Government Has Disbursed Only 33% of the Election Budget
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings
The budget forecast for this election year is about 19.9 billion meticais ($310mn). But government has disbursed only 6.5 billion meticais ($100mn), which is only one-third of the… Read more »
Mozambique: More Than 6,000 Brigades and 9,000 Registration Posts Will Be Set Up
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings
The CNE also announced, in the same press conference, that to undertake the voter registration, 6,330 registration brigades will be set up, 6,033 inside Mozambique and 297 abroad. Read more »
Mozambique: Head of STAE Operations in Quelimane Jailed For Printing Own Voters Cards
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings
Vitorino de Azevedo, the head of operations of the Quelimane branch of STAE, has been found guilty, of producing voter cards on his own printing press, in the Quelimane… Read more »