Maputo — Most of Mozambique's 5,096 voter registration brigades did begin work as planned on Monday morning - but the success was not as overwhelming as STAE (Electoral Administration Technical Secretariat) had initially claimed, and familiar problems with malfunctioning equipment resurfaced.
From its network of correspondents across the country, the "Mozambique Political Process Bulletin" (published by the anti-corruption NGO, the Centre for Public Integrity, CIP) estimates that about three quarters of the brigades opened on time. Indeed, the correspondents found substantial queues, of between 60 and 100 people, at posts in various parts of Nampula, Sofala, Zambezia and Tete provinces.
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