Tensions are mounting in Mozambique in the run-up to all-important elections on 15 October. A row has broken out over the results of voter registration that seem to indicate a bias in favour of provinces that are historically in the camp of the ruling party.
The opposition has called for an independent audit of the voters roll. They want to determine whether the large number of extra voters registered in Gaza province - up to 300 000 more than the adult population recorded in the 2017 census - was a deliberate move to inflate support for the ruling Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO).
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