Mozambique: Registration May Stop for Several Days in Maputo and Matola

Flooding in Mozambique (file photo)

Our correspondents in the cities of Maputo and Matola, and in the surrounding districts, report a sombre scenario in which the schools where voter registration brigades had been operating are now occupied by people driven from their homes by the floods caused by the torrential rains of the weekend.

For example, all the registration posts installed near the headquarters of the Infulene Administrative Post are not functioning. At the time of writing, no post is open to register voters (at the Zona Verde EPC, and the T-3, Benfica Nova and Infulene Secondary schools).

In the KaMubukwane municipal district, the posts at 1 June EPC, Infulene-Benfica ES, U30 EPC, Bagamoio EPC, Rua 04 and 07 EPC, and Zedequias Manganhela ES, are also closed.

This is the scenario throughout Maputo and Matola cities. In Maputo, classes are closed until Friday 29 March, to allow affected people to be accommodated in the schools. Furthermore, some schools have been inundated by the flood waters, and so do not provide minimum conditions for the work of the registration brigades.

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