The independent presidential candidate, Venâncio Mondlane, expressed his acceptance of the proposal made by the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, for a meeting with other presidential candidates. Nyusi proposes meeting with presidential candidates to discuss the situation in the country "I accept, without reservation, this table of dialog. But this dialog, like any negotiation, must...
Category: Special Elections
Venâncio Mondlane calls for "blackout", singing of the National Anthem for 25 minutes, pots and pans and vigilia
This afternoon, the independent presidential candidate, Venâncio Mondlane, announced the "modus operandi" for the end of the second stage of the fourth phase of demonstrations against electoral fraud. According to Mondlane, tomorrow, the last day of the stage, will be a "busy" Friday. The idea is, from 12 noon until 12.15pm, to stop the cars and honk the horn. From then on, the...
Meeting with presidential candidates could take place next week, according to Nyusi
The meeting recently proposed by the President of the Republic to hold talks with the four presidential candidates could take place within a week, Filipe Nyusi said yesterday. Speaking in Harare, Zimbabwe, at the Extraordinary Summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), he said that the invitations were already being sent out. "I don't know how they found the...
Protesters occupy main avenues on second day of "honking"
The second of three days of peaceful demonstrations through the wearing of black clothing and the paralyzing of traffic and honking of horns for 15 minutes was marked by strong adherence. Just like yesterday, the main focus was on the main avenues, at least in Maputo city. The demonstrators, dressed as...
Lúcia Ribeiro rejects "outright" proposal to annul elections
The President of the Constitutional Council, Lúcia Ribeiro, is said to have rejected "outright" a proposal by the judges to annul the October 2024 general elections. The truth is that the whole world already knows that that election was riddled with fraud, not least because this seems to be the main reason for the current social situation in Mozambique. Secondly...
SADC calls for peaceful resolution of post-election conflicts in Mozambique
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has expressed its openness to supporting Mozambique in the peaceful resolution of post-election conflicts, according to the President of the Republic. Speaking to the press after the end of the Extraordinary Summit yesterday in Harare, Zimbabwe, Nyusi said that the bloc regrets the deaths, vandalization of infrastructure and blocking of cross-border traffic....
"At the Presidency of the Republic": Journalist detained reporting honking horns and traffic at a standstill
The journalist-reporter for the Center for Democracy and Human Rights (CDD), Sheila Wilson, was arrested earlier this afternoon in Maputo city, while she was broadcasting live the situation regarding the protests called by Venâncio Mondlane. The arrest took place after a military guard from the Presidency of the Republic, on Av. Julius Nyerere, stole...
Venâncio Mondlane calls for three days of national mourning for the martyrs of the protests
The independent presidential candidate, Venâncio Mondlane, today called for the observance of three days of "National Mourning for the martyrs of the Paneladas revolution". Mondlane, who has been the face of the protests against electoral fraud in Mozambique, said that this cycle runs from Wednesday (20) to Friday (22). "It's not just any old way that 50 people die...
MP demands millionaire compensation from Venâncio Mondlane and Podemos
The Public Prosecutor's Office (MP) is demanding that compensation of 32 million meticais be paid to the independent presidential candidate, Venâncio Mondlane, and to the Optimist Party for the Development of Mozambique (Podemos), in the person of its representative, Albino Forquilha. The Public Prosecutor's Office is making the demand in the conviction that Mondlane and Podemos are the moral authors...
"I also bang pots in my house," says Ossufo Momade
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...