Mozambique: Frelimo needs €1.2 million to repair vandalized headquarters in Zambézia

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Mozambique: Frelimo needs €1.2 million to repair vandalized headquarters in Zambézia

12:38 CAT | 11 Aug 2025

Photo: Frelimo Molumbo

The Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), the party in power since 1975, needs €1.2 million to repair 25 party headquarter buildings vandalized in Zambézia province during post-election protests, Francisco Nangura, Frelimo’s first secretary in Zambézia province has announced.

“Our assessment was to repair the completely destroyed and partially destroyed headquarters. We are at 89 million meticais [€1.2 million]. The party relies on membership dues, and is isn’t an easy task for us to rebuild our headquarters. But we are an organized party,” Nangura said.

Speaking to reporters on Sunday after visiting Frelimo’s completely destroyed facilities in Molumbo district, Nangura explained that the party was already beginning to renovate offices in the Alto Molócue district and in the city of Mocuba, so that they can “continue functioning”.

He added that six party offices in that central Mozambique province were completely destroyed during the more than five months of demonstrations that followed the general elections of October 9, 2024, while 19 facilities were partially vandalized.

“I urge our population to be united and continue to protect our leaders. Because this doesn’t just affect community leaders, it also affects party leaders,” Nangura acknowledged, referring to acts of violence that still occur occasionally.

Mozambique has experienced a climate of intense social unrest since the October elections, with demonstrations and strikes called by then-presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane, who rejects the election results that gave victory to Daniel Chapo, supported by the ruling Frelimo party, as the fifth President of the Republic.

According to non-governmental organizations monitoring the electoral process, approximately 400 people died as a result of clashes with the police, in addition to the destruction of public and private property, looting, and violence. Conflicts that ceased after meetings between Mondlane and Chapo on March 23 and May 20, aimed at achieving peace.

The Mozambican Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) accused politician Venâncio Mondlane of calling for a “revolution” during the post-election protests, provoking “panic” and “terror” among the population, holding him responsible for the deaths and for plunging the country into “chaos.”

In the indictment, delivered to the politician at the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) in Maputo on July 22, the Public Prosecutor’s Office cites, as a large part of its evidence, calls for protests, strikes, work stoppages, and mobilization for protests made on Venâncio Mondlane’s social media live streams throughout the various phases of the challenge to the 2024 electoral process in Mozambique.

“The acts committed by the defendant seriously jeopardized fundamental legal rights, such as the life, physical and mental integrity of individuals, freedom of movement, public order, security, and tranquillity, as well as the normal functioning of public and private institutions,” it reads.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office charges Venâncio Mondlane, a presidential candidate in the October 9 general elections who does not recognize the results, with “material and moral authorship, in a real series of infractions” for the crimes of public advocacy of crime, incitement to collective disobedience, public instigation of a crime, incitement to terrorism, and incitement to terrorism.

It claims that he used social media “to facilitate the dissemination of his radical ideas, which he called a revolution”, which “indeed happened, as the posts were viewed, commented on, and shared by several people, who put them into practice”.

Source: Lusa