Mondlane: from local to national headache
Renamo, Mozambique’s main opposition party, won crucial races in key municipalities in the October 2023 municipal elections, but the electoral bodies acted in unison to thwart the will of the ...
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Renamo is fighting an internal political battle in a court of law
Venâncio Mondlane, head of list and the candidate for Mayor of Maputo in last year’s municipal elections, and member of parliament for Mozambique’s main opposition party Renamo, has said that ...
Momade feels betrayed by international community
Ossufo Momade, the leader of the Mozambican main pposition party, Renamo, has accused the international community of betrayal and of giving false guarantees for creating the conditions for fair and ...
Renamo in the crosshairs of the law
A Maputo City District Court has weighed in into a political dispute pitting the chairperson of Mozambique’s opposition Renamo, Ossufo Momade, and member of parliament, Venâncio Mondlane, who until recently ...
Dangerous Minds playing dangerous games
Unknown arsonists have set fire to the Murrupelane primary school, in Nacala-Porto, in the northern Mozambican province of Nampula. The Murrupelane primary school is home to nine of the 18 ...
Book(ing) his way into the presidency?
Former Prime Minister Alberto Vaquina recently considered preposterous a question on whether he had any designs on the presidency. “I’m here launching a book and you think that I’m repositioning ...
Opposition not giving in without a fight
The head of list for the opposition Renamo party vying for the Maputo municipality, Venâncio Mondlane, says that the party has submitted a Request for Clarification of a Constitutional Council ...
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 ...
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 ...
Momade under pressure
Over the weekend, a group of former Renamo guerrilla fighters publicly accused Ossufo Momade, the leader of Mozambique’s largest opposition party, of betraying Renamo, demanding that he steps down. At ...
