Browsing: Mozambique

In a chilling display of police brutality, a popular Mozambican blogger was shot during a live broadcast on 12 December. Albino Jose Sibia – popularly known…

Two months into protests following a disputed presidential election, NGO Plataforma Eleitoral Decide estimates police detained over 3,400 people and caused 90 deaths and 293 gunshot…

South Africa-based civil society organisation Open Secrets’ investigation has revealed Africa’s corrupt political elites have laundered embezzled public funds through South Africa’s real estate sector while…

Post-election election violence in Mozambique has reportedly taken more lives amidst calls for regional leaders to help map the way forward. On 19 November, opposition leader…

On this day in 2008, the world lost an extraordinary voice. Miriam Makeba wasn’t just an amazing singer, she spoke up for Africans and championed their…

South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party has condemned what it describes as ‘state repression’ in Mozambique following security forces reportedly k*lling 20 protesters, injuring 390…

Protesters reportedly seized trucks on the busy N4 highway in Mozambique, bringing traffic to a standstill as tension continues to run high over the disputed 9…

Since Daniel Chapo, the candidate of the ruling party, Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO), was declared winner of Mozambique’s 9 October presidential election with 71…

Opposition supporters took to the streets of the Mozambican capital, Maputo, to protest against the government’s alleged electoral fraud shortly after the country’s National Electoral Commission…

Samora Machel, the leader of Mozambique’s independence struggle and the country’s first post-independence president, was born on this day in 1933. He was born into a…