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Mozambique's main opposition leader Venâncio Mondlane has called for unity ahead of a fresh round of protests against the outcome of presidential elections. In a live broadcast on his Facebook ...
MAPUTO (Reuters) -Mozambican police fired tear gas at protesters in the capital Maputo on Thursday in the biggest demonstration yet against the long-ruling Frelimo party which was declared the ...
Mozambique in Crisis Mozambican police officers stand by as protesters burn tires during a demonstration against the government in Maputo on December 6, 2024. (Photo by AMILTON NEVES/AFP via Getty ...
2024 in climate change. The Copernicus Climate Change Service confirms that 2024 was the warmest calendar year since records began in 1850, with the average global temperature reaching 1.6 °C above pre-industrial levels, surpassing the 1.5 °C warming benchmark set in 2016 by the Paris Agreement for the first time.
8 August – A court in the United States convicts former finance minister Manuel Chang of plunder involving the acceptance of bribes through US banks for approving secret loans from 2002 to 2015 in what became known as the "Tuna bonds" scandal" that left the Mozambican government with $2 billion in debt.
The president is elected using the two-round system. [8] The 250 members of the Assembly of the Republic are elected by proportional representation in eleven multi-member constituencies based on the country's provinces and on a first-past-the-post basis from two single-member constituencies representing Mozambican citizens in Africa and Europe.
The latest unrest began on Monday after Mozambique's highest court upheld the victory of Frelimo's presidential candidate, Daniel Chapo, in elections held in October. Mondlane had challenged the ...
The Mozambican vessel Zico, [4] a fishing boat converted for use as a ferry, was traveling from Lunga in Mossuril District, Nampula Province to the Island of Mozambique on 7 April 2024. Most of the 130–150 [ 5 ] passengers were trying to escape the mainland because of a cholera outbreak , with Nampula being one of the worst-affected provinces.