Malawi reiterates need for stability in Mozambique – Watch

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Malawi reiterates need for stability in Mozambique – Watch

1:35 CAT | 07 Jan 2025

Photo: Presidente Filipe Nyusi/Facebook

The special envoy of the President of Malawi, Khumbize Chiponda, yesterday reiterated the need for stability and peace in Mozambique, in the face of a post-election period marked by protests and violence.

“It was my mission to convey to the [Mozambican] President that in Malawi we remain committed to supporting Mozambique. When Mozambique has peace and stability, we in Malawi also have it. Therefore, we offer our support to the people of Mozambique and also to guarantee the peace and stability that the Mozambican people have enjoyed, which must be maintained,” said the special envoy of President Lazarus Chakwera.

Khumbize Chiponda was received on Monday morning by the Mozambican president, Filipe Nyusi, at the Presidency of the Republic in Maputo, where she stressed the “importance” of Mozambique for the neighbouring country, in terms of security and also the import and export of goods.

“I am very pleased that the President of Mozambique has stressed that they are doing everything they can to ensure that peace and calm are fully restored,” Chiponda told journalists after the meeting, recalling the “very special relationship” between the two neighbouring countries.

Post-election dispute

Clashes between the police and the protesters contesting the results of last year’s October 9 elections have already caused almost 300 deaths, with more than 500 people suffering gun-shot wounds, according to civil society organizations following events.

Mozambique’s Constitutional Council (CC), the country’s final court of appeal in electoral matters, has officially set January 15 as the date for the inauguration of the successor to Filipe Nyusi as President of the Republic.

On 23 December of last year, the CC declared ruling party Frelimo’s candidate Daniel Chapo the winner of the election for President of the Republic, with 65.17% of the vote, succeeding Filipe Nyusi in office, as well as confirming Frelimo’s success in maintaining its parliamentary majority in the general elections of 9 October.

Chapo’s electoral victory is, however, contested in the streets, and the CC’s announcement increased the chaos that the country has been experiencing since October of last year, with supporters of Venâncio Mondlane, who, according to the Constitutional Council, obtained only 24% of the votes, but who nevertheless continues to claim victory, demanding the “reestablishment of the electoral truth”, resulting in confrontations with the police, who have been firing shots in an attempt to quell the protests.