Mozambique: Frelimo Deputies Accuse MDM of Murdering Nampula Mayor

Maputo — Two parliamentary deputies of Mozambique's ruling Frelimo party on Wednesday publicly accused the opposition Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM) of organising the murder, on 4 October, of Mahamudo Amurane, mayor of the northern city of Nampula.

Amurane had been elected in the municipal elections of 2013 on the MDM ticket, but he had fallen out with the MDM leadership. This year there were bitter exchanges and insults between Amurane and the MDM. Although Amurane never resigned from the MDM, he repeatedly promised that he would run for a second term of office, but not as an MDM candidate.

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