Maputo — The candidate of the rebel movement Renamo, Paulo Vahanle, has won the second round of the mayoral by-election in the northern Mozambican city of Nampula, held on Wednesday.
According to observer groups, the results sheets (“editais”) from 360 of the 401 polling stations, showed Vahanle taking almost 60 per cent of the vote, to just over 40 per cent for his rival, Amisse Cololo, of the ruling Frelimo Party. It is quite impossible for Cololo to close that gap from the remaining 41 polling stations.
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