Thousands of Angolans took to the streets of Luanda on Saturday to protest against hunger, poverty and the current political leadership, following a call made on Thursday by the president of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), Adalberto Costa Jr. Closely supervised by the police, around 4,000 people marched peacefully with...
Once again, the police of the Republic of Mozambique made their presence felt this morning by stopping a teachers' march using tear gas. The act took place this morning in Maputo city, near the Commercial Institute, Avenida 24 de Julho. According to reports from some teachers heard by CDD, there was...
The independent presidential candidate, Venâncio Mondlane, reaffirmed today that the demonstrations against electoral fraud in Mozambique will not stop until the truth of the polls is restored. "This will only end when the electoral truth is restored, when the will of the people is restored," he said. According to Mondlane, the truth of the polls or respect for the decisions of the majority...
Opposition parties announced today in Maputo, in a joint statement, their alignment in marches and demonstrations that are intended to be peaceful, to demand the centralized results put forward by the National Electoral Commission (CNE). This is the first time that the opposition has joined forces, and the highlight is the presence of Renamo and Movimento Democrático...
The President of the PODEMOS party is discouraging citizens from taking to the streets to demonstrate against the preliminary results released by the National Electoral Commission (CNE) in the context of the October 9 elections. Albino Forquilha told a press conference this Sunday that no citizen should demonstrate in the street, and that the party...
The Renamo party candidate for the Maputo municipality, Venâncio Mondlane, is said to have ignored medical recommendations to rest completely while he was leading marches to claim victory in the October 11 elections. "I talk to him very well. I need to stress that he received medical advice to rest completely and he failed to do so...
The first secretary of the FRELIMO party in Zambezia province said on Saturday in Quelimane that the opposition, especially Renamo, can march as many times and for as many days as it wants, but that it will not win these elections in that municipality. According to Paulino Lenço, quoted by DW, the Constitutional Council (CC) will not change the results announced by...
This morning, the trial began of 17 more young people who took part in the Renamo march in Maputo city to contest the results of the local elections that gave victory to the Frelimo party. They are charged with association to obstruct the public highway, carrying homemade bombs and vandalizing public property...
The president of Renamo today denounced a wave of harassment of its members by the police during the marches contesting the election results, saying that his party will not back down. "There is harassment and arbitrary arrests of citizens, as well as invasion and siege of the political offices of the Renamo Party, as is the case...