January 15
Mozambique: Frelimo Asks Special Parliament Session to Clean Up Election Laws - And Squeeze the Opposition
Frelimo asks special parliament session to clean up election laws - and squeeze the opposition Read more »
December 11, 2023
Mozambique: With Heavy Police Presence, Turnout Under 20% in Nacala and Milange
In Milange, Zambézia, turnout will be less than 20% with two polling stations where nobody voted. Read more »
Mozambique: Arrests, Assaults, Ballot Box Stuffing and Low Turnout in Voting This Morning
A massive police presence, some arrests and assaults, an attempt to introduce pre-voted ballot papers, and a very low turnout marked the first hours of the repeat elections this… Read more »
December 05, 2023
Mozambique: Why Did the Constitutional Council Take Alto Molocue from Frelimo?
The Constitutional Council took Alto Molocue away from Frelimo and gave it to Renamo, in secret, and not on the basis of publicly available documents. All publicly available… Read more »
November 28, 2023
Mozambique: Electoral Body Proposes Election Re-Run in December
The Council of Ministers is expected to announce, by tomorrow, the date for the repeat of the local elections in Marromeu and parts of Guruè, Milange and Nacala-Porto. The… Read more »
November 27, 2023
Mozambique: Constitutional Council Wants Changes to the Electoral Court System
Constitutional Council Wants Major Changes to Vote Tabulation & Courts, but Not to its Own Secret Procedures Which Mean Crime Pays Read more »
Mozambique: Constitutional Council Confirms Mega-Fraud, Names Renamo Winner in Four More Cities
The Constitutional Council today confirmed widespread fraud in the 11 October municipal elections. The CC declared Renamo the winner in Chíure, Quelimane, Alto Molocue and… Read more »
November 22, 2023
Mozambique: Constitutional Council Demands Election Results Sheets
Renamo members discovered two weeks late that the Constitutional Council (CC) had been asking the National Elections Commission (CNE) for original results sheets (editais) from… Read more »
November 17, 2023
Mozambique: Police Shoot 8 Renamo Demonstrators in Angoche
Police shot eight Renamo demonstrators in Angoche, Nampula, today (Thursday, 16 November). Manquinho Mastado is in a serious condition and has been transferred to Nampula Central… Read more »
November 15, 2023
Mozambique: Religious Leaders Under Pressure for Approving Fraudulent Election Results
Anglican bishops last week demanded the immediate resignation of CNE head Carlos Matsinhe from his church post as Bishop of the Libombos, because he abstained in the National… Read more »
October 27, 2023
Mozambique: Riots and Two Deaths in Nampula and Nacala
Nampula and Nacala-Porto are experiencing riots and the police are responding with rubber bullets and gunfire with real bullets. There are arrests, injuries and deaths in both… Read more »
October 25, 2023
Mozambique: Constitutional Council Says Only it Can Force Repeat of an Election
The Constitutional Council (CC) today issued two rulings on the current local elections. The first makes it clear that it has exclusive competence to annul or order the repetition… Read more »
October 24, 2023
Mozambique: Triangular Battle Over Vote Recount in Matola
The Matola District Court on 18 October ordered a vote recount in Matola. The Frelimo party and the Matola City Elections Commission (CEC) then appealed against the recount. But… Read more »
October 23, 2023
Mozambique: Renamo Takes the Capital
Renamo has won by landslides in both the capital city Maputo and its neighbour Matola, the largest city in Mozambique, according to parallel counts. But the district elections… Read more »
October 20, 2023
Mozambique: Court Orders Correction of Some Data in Nampula
The judge of the Nampula District court only ordered the Nampula CDE to correct data in some editais. Renamo announced it will appeal to the Constitutional Council, on the grounds… Read more »
Mozambique: KaMubukwana Court Dismisses Renamo's Case as Judge Declines to Read Judgement
Judge Perceverança Mangamela, of the KaMubukwana Municipal District in Maputo City, dismissed Renamo's appeal on the grounds that it "lacks foundation". The judgement was… Read more »
Mozambique: Catholic Bishops Call for Legality to be Restored and Bloodshed Avoided
The Catholic bishops of Mozambique today called on the judiciary to restore legality to electoral processes. According to the Episcopal Council of Mozambique, "there is no legality… Read more »
Mozambique: Bar Association Calls on Election Commission to Quit
"We cannot fail to express our deep repudiation of the way these elections have been organised and conducted", the Mozambican Bar Association said today. It cited "a prior… Read more »
Mozambique: Court Orders Vote Recount in Matola
"A recount of all the polling stations in the municipal elections in the City of Matola" was ordered today (Thursday 19 Oct) by he Matola District Court, upholding an appeal by the… Read more »
Mozambique: KaMavota Court Orders Recount Because STAE Used 185 Fake Editais to Tabulate Results
The KaMavota District Court accepted Renamo's appeal and ordered a recount of the votes based on the real editias (results sheets), because "a substantial part and with a… Read more »
Mozambique: Renamo Unsuccessful in Caia and Chiomio
The Caia District Court, Sofala, dismissing Renamo's appeal over electoral fraud in almost all of the 33 Caia polling stations. The court claims that Renamo's accusation was… Read more »
October 18, 2023
Mozambique: Courts in Guruè and Quelimane Reject Renamo's Appeals
District Courts have rejected Renamo's complaints in Guruè and Quelimane. The first claimed lack of evidence and the second that Renamo presented unsigned minutes and… Read more »
Mozambique: Polling Station Presiding Officer Found Dead in Milange
The lifeless body of Pedro Manguissa was found on the banks of a busy road in the village of Milange. During the recent local elections, the deceased was a polling station chair at… Read more »
Mozambique: Electoral Body Admits Ballot Counting Irregularities
"By the time of the tabulation at the polling stations, reports of irregularities were mounting up, constituting real electoral offences," admitted the National Elections… Read more »
Mozambique: Court Says Organised Fraud Proven in Maputo
The court in the Maputo city district of Nhlamankulu District Court found it proven that the district STAE director introduced fake editais (polling station results… Read more »