Mozambique: Most Registration Brigades Operating but Electricity Problems Persist

Maputo — Although most of Mozambique's 5,096 voter registration brigades are now functioning fairly smoothly, some still have to make major efforts, particularly to cope with electricity problems, reports the latest issue of the "Mozambican Political Process Bulletin" (published by the anti-corruption NGO, the Centre for Public Integrity, CIP).

Thus at one registration post at Luazi, in Mogovolas district, in the northern province of Nampula, there is no solar panel and no other way to charge the computer used for registration. So to keep registering voters, brigade members must take the computer, by bicycle or motorbike. seven kilometres to Nhambupo Rio, the nearest place where they can recharge it. They are accompanied by a policeman to maintain security.

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