Daniel Chapo was declared the winner of Mozambique’s presidential election on Thursday after a process marred by violence and widespread accusations that his party, Frelimo, which has run the country for nearly five decades, committed fraud. The country’s electoral commission announced that Mr. Chapo won with nearly 71 percent of …
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A lawyer and a party official for the leading opposition candidate in Mozambique’s recent presidential election were fatally shot in their car late Friday night, inflaming tensions in a southern African nation that was already on edge after the highly disputed vote this month. The lawyer, Elvino Dias, had been …
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Voters in Mozambique go to the polls on Wednesday to elect a new president who will face the tall task of figuring out how to defeat a yearslong Islamic State-backed insurgency that is deepening grave humanitarian and economic problems. Although the insurgents rampaging through the northern province of Cabo Delgado …
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