Total massacre. Eight dead, including a one-year-old child, and six wounded allegedly at the hands of the Police of the Republic of Mozambique this morning at market 38 in the city of Chimoio during demonstrations protesting against the election results. According to some sources, 21 young people were illegally detained by the police...
The leader of Renamo, Ossufo Momade, confessed today in Maputo that the party supports and adheres to all peaceful protests, including itself heeding the call to "panelanços" called by Venâncio Mondlane. Responding to a question about the supposedly weak presence of the political formation in the demonstrations taking place in the country, the President said...
After being blocked due to the demonstrations, the Ressano Garcia Border, in Maputo province, returned to normal operations last weekend, with entries and exits of people, vehicles and various goods being recorded. Juca Bata, spokesman for the National Migration Service (SENAMI), was quoted by "Notícias" as saying that the migratory movement recorded...
The number of people who have been killed by police officers since the start of the demonstrations in protest at the election results continues to grow. In the neighborhood of Maxaque, Maputo city, another young man was killed on Friday night (15) by police officers during the peaceful demonstrations called by the presidential candidate,...
A resident of Golf Residence, whose identity is unknown at this stage, shot at demonstrators who were banging pots and pans in Maputo city. According to a CDD report, the act took place last night at around 9pm in Rua do Rio Inhamiara, in compliance with a...
The presidential candidate supported by the Podemos party, Venâncio Mondlane, will announce on Tuesday (19) the second phase of the fourth stage of nationwide demonstrations. In another live stream this afternoon via his official Facebook account, Mondlane said that until Tuesday arrives, "we're going to keep our demonstration going via...
Dércio Alfazema, a political analyst, believes that the current demonstrations in Mozambique are leaderless and "confusing" in order to make "cannon fodder" out of the people. Speaking on a programme on TV Sucesso, he criticized the fact that the demonstrations evoked by presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane were not properly organized. The director of the Institute for Democracy...
The peaceful protests evolved into violent demonstrations and turned out to be "urban terrorism", said the Commander General of the Police of the Republic of Mozambique. Since October 21, Mozambique has been going through a period of demonstrations against "electoral fraud" in the general elections held on October 9. At a press conference yesterday, Bernardino Rafael said that in the last seven...
The presidential candidate supported by the PODEMOS party promised to announce today, Monday (11), the measures and date of the fourth and final phase of protest, which he has called. After a pause in the demonstrations, Venâncio Mondlane warned that the fourth and final stage of the protests in Mozambique for the salvation and liberation of the country...
Two Portuguese journalists from CMTV who were covering the riots in Maputo were escorted by the Mozambican authorities to the airport to leave the country. Special envoys Alfredo Leite and Marc Ricardo Silva were expelled from Mozambique while covering - for CM, CMTV and the NOW channel - the riots that are shaking that country following the...