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Mozambique: Mondlane, ex-presidents of Colombia, Botswana stopped at Luanda airport
7:43 CAT | 14 Mar 2025
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Mozambique’s former presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane and former presidents of Colombia and Botswana were held back on Thursday at Luanda’s 04 de Fevereiro airport as they prepared to attend an international conference on democracy in the city, a source from Angola’s main opposition UNITA party said.
According to Olívio Kilumbo, a member of parliament for UNITA, Mondlane, along with Ian Khama, a former president of Botswana, and Andrés Pastrana, a former president of Colombia, are part of a delegation arriving for the conference, which is being organised with the Benthrust Foundation and taking place in Benguela, in the south of Angola.
In comments to Lusa, UNITA’s deputy secretary-general, Lázaro Kakunha, said that 13 of the 17 guests coming from abroad were being held back, and stressed that Mondlane, among others, do not need a visa because they are citizens of countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), as is Angola.
Mondlane has been accused by the Mozambique authorities of being behind some of the violence seen on the streets of the country in protests against the official results of last October’s general election, in which he is held to have come second to Daniel Chapo, whose inauguration took place in January.
Source: Lusa
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