What is Frelimo afraid of?
Following the 2023 municipal elections, Mozambique’s ruling Frelimo party has claimed to have won in 64 of the 65 municipalities that were at play on 11 October. However, the rigging ...
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Legal battles produce mixed results for Renamo
During the week, lawyers across Mozambique were presiding over lawsuits filed by Renamo, the main opposition party, on the grounds that the results of the local elections had been grossly ...
What now, Frelimo?
Over the weekend, Mozambique’s Technical Secretariat for Electoral Administration (STAE), at the district level, gave victory to the ruling Frelimo party in all but one municipality, sparking a wave of protests from the ...
Opposition head of list receives death threats
Mozambique's main opposition party Renamo denounced alleged death threats received by its head of list for the Maputo municipality election, Venâncio Mondlane, on the early hours of Thursday. Meanwhile, a ...
Nyusi delivers Maputo to opposition
The sixth Mozambican municipal elections are likely to change the geography of political power in the municipalities of the Great Maputo (Maputo, Matola and Marracuene), with Renamo, the main opposition ...
Unlevelled playing field
Mozambicans on Wednesday held municipal elections in 65 municipalities. The elections are not without controversy. During the voter registration process, they were many irregularities and outright rigging. For example, in ...
Nyusi’s A to Z (5)
U for Unity In a way, the previous alphabet is partly a descriptor of this. National unity, Frelimo’s mantra since its founding, has been seriously undermined under Nyusi’s terms of ...
Municipal Elections: old foes draw blood
Mozambican political parties and citizens movements in 65 municipalities on Tuesday started campaigning ahead of the 11 October municipal elections. Despite calls for peace from the electoral bodies, party leadership ...
Nyusi’s A to Z (4)
P for Plateau The new centre of national political power; the de facto and de jure power, considering the strong tribal ascendancy of Nyusi’s government over and above all else. ...
A to Z of Nyusi’s politics (3)
J for Journalism Heavily helped by journalists during Frelimo’s primary campaign, Nyusi showed a political appeal that few knew of or could have thought he had: simple, direct and pragmatic. ...
