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Mozambique: Riots and Two Deaths in Nampula and Nacala
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings, 27 October 2023
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 »
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Mozambique: Triangular Battle Over Vote Recount in Matola
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings, 24 October 2023
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 »
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Mozambique: Constitutional Council Says Only it Can Force Repeat of an Election
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings, 25 October 2023
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 »
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Mozambique: Renamo Takes the Capital
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings, 23 October 2023
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 »
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Mozambique: Frelimo and Renamo March for and Against Election Results
AIM, 22 October 2023
Supporters of Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party and of the main opposition force, Renamo, marched in several of the country's cities on Friday, expressing opposed positions on the… Read more »
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Mozambique: Court Orders Correction of Some Data in Nampula
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings, 20 October 2023
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 »
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Mozambique: Court Orders Vote Recount in Matola
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings, 20 October 2023
"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 »
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Mozambique: Bar Association Calls on Election Commission to Quit
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings, 20 October 2023
"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 »
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Mozambique: Renamo Unsuccessful in Caia and Chiomio
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings, 20 October 2023
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 »
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Mozambique: KaMavota Court Orders Recount Because STAE Used 185 Fake Editais to Tabulate Results
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings, 20 October 2023
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 »
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Mozambique: Catholic Bishops Call for Legality to be Restored and Bloodshed Avoided
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings, 20 October 2023
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 »
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Mozambique: KaMubukwana Court Dismisses Renamo's Case as Judge Declines to Read Judgement
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings, 20 October 2023
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 »
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Mozambique: Court Says Organised Fraud Proven in Maputo
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings, 18 October 2023
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 »
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Mozambique: Courts in Guruè and Quelimane Reject Renamo's Appeals
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings, 18 October 2023
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 »
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Mozambique: Polling Station Presiding Officer Found Dead in Milange
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings, 18 October 2023
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 »
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Mozambique: Electoral Body Admits Ballot Counting Irregularities
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings, 18 October 2023
"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 »
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Mozambique: Courts Force Rerun in Cuamba, Chókwè
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings, 17 October 2023
Courts force rerun in Cuamba and Chókwè and demand data from election authorities in Maputo, but refuse to hear cases from Chiure and Vilankulo Read more »
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Mozambique: Renamo Calls for Demonstrations in All 65 Municipalities
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings, 16 October 2023
Renamo's Political Commission called for demonstrations in all 65 municipalities on Tuesday. The Commission met today (Sunday 15 Oct) in an extraordinary session and concluded that… Read more »
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Mozambique: Mozambique Police Crack Down On Opposition Before Election Results
HRW, 13 October 2023
Tensions appear to be rising in Mozambique as the country awaits the results of municipal elections held on Wednesday. Ahead of voting day, authorities had increased security… Read more »
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Mozambique: Electoral Pandemonium: Demonstrations, Shootings, Arrests, and Assaults - but Silence From Electoral Bodies
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings, 13 October 2023
Last night and today (Thursday) there were a mix of victory celebrations, violence, arrests and fatal shootings in Chiure, Nampula, Guruè and Quelimane. Read more »
Victories Reported Days Before Mozambique Official Result is Out
The opposition Renamo has won by landslides in both the capital city Maputo and its neighbour Matola, the largest city in Mozambique, according to parallel counts, Mozambique News Reports And Clippings reports. But the district elections commissions in both Matola and Maputo have announced that the ruling Frelimo party has won.
Courts in both cities have demanded recounts. By Thursday, October 26, the National Elections Commission must announce results in all 65 municipalities, and submit those results to the Constitutional Council. which will have to adjudicate on the huge gaps between official results and parallel counts.
Earlier, Mozambique News Reports and Clippings reported several incidents of violence against protesters.
One of the country's main internet service providers used in rural areas and the north experienced a blackout as polling stations closed for voting on October 11.
Mozambique has a troubled history when it comes to elections. Since 1994, there have been several allegations of vote-rigging, assassinations of opposition and civil society leaders, and other violent incidents that have tainted the electoral process.
Municipal election results announced by Friday 22.00 on October 13, 2023.
Municipal election results announced by Friday 22.00 on October 13, 2023.
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