Mozambique: At least 14 more people killed in two days of election protests

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Mozambique: At least 14 more people killed in two days of election protests

6:55 CAT | 20 Jan 2025

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At least 14 people have died in two days of post-election demonstrations in Mozambique, bringing to 314 the number of deaths since 21 October, with another 633 people having suffered gunshot wounds, according to a new report released on Friday by Plataforma Eleitoral Decide, a non-governmental organisation.

According to the report by the NGO, which monitors electoral processes, data from 15 and 16 January [Wednesday and Thursday] show that three people died in demonstrations in Maputo province outside the capital and another three in the city itself, and two in Zambézia, in central Mozambique, and five in Nampula, in the north.

In these two days of demonstrations, the NGO counted 17 people shot and injured, three of them in Maputo city and three in the rest province, three in Inhambane, also in the south, as well as two in Zambézia, one in Sofala, in the centre, and five in Nampula.

The platform also registered eight detainees, five of them in Gaza, in the south, and three in Maputo city.

Since 21 October, when challenges to the official process surrounding the 9 October general elections began, the NGO’s records show 633 people as having been shot and injured, 314 killed, and at least 4,228 detained.

On 23 December Daniel Chapo, 48, was proclaimed by the Constitutional Council (CC) the winner of the 9 October presidential election, with 65.17% of the votes. Frelimo, the governing party, which backed him, was also said to have won the legislative and provincial assembly elections, which took place on the same day.

Presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane, who has refused to accept the official results, has called for three days of stoppages and demonstrations since Monday, contesting the swearing-in of the members of the new parliament and the investiture of the new head of state.

Chapo’s election has been contested in the streets since late October, with supporters of Mondlane – who according to the CC won 24% of the vote, but who claims to have won – demanding the “restoration of electoral truth” and setting up barricades, looting, and clashing with police.

Updated data on the demonstrations in Mozambique.
The 3-month report on the demonstrations will be released on January 22nd.#MozambiqueElections #MozambiqueProtests pic.twitter.com/H84Cx09S9K

— Plataforma_decide (@PDecide23) January 17, 2025