The streets of Maputo were deserted on Monday when Mozambique swore in its new parliament. Opposition leader Venancio Mondlane had called for a three-day strike to protest the result of highly ...

Regional Editor Reyhana Masters takes a deep dive into the issues that dominated the electoral landscape in some of the ...

Mozambique's escalating civil unrest began after its October 2024 election was clouded by allegations of rigging against the ...

More than 278 people have been killed, mainly by police, in the post electoral demonstrations, according to Platforma Electoral Decide. Of those, at least 176 were killed in the week 23-29 December.

The political crisis in Mozambique is in crisis after the Constitutional Court upheld controversial election results.

A prominent Mozambican NGO, the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), has accused the head of the Maputo department of penitentiary operations, Roque Xavier, of facilitating the illegal release ...

Mozambique’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) has set up a working commission in order to investigate the violation of ...

An organization in Mozambique asked the nation’s attorney-general to probe “severe human-rights violations” after a jail ...

Mozambique government has instituted a commission of inquiry to investigate the mass escape of prisoners from two of its ...

The government of Mozambique ... country's capital of Maputo, which occurred on Wednesday, state news agency AIM reported on Sunday. The escape involved 1,534 prisoners from the Central Prison ...

A violent prison riot in Mozambique on Thursday has resulted in the deaths of at least 33 inmates and the escape of at least 1,500 from a high-security facility in the capital, Maputo. The incident ...

A prison riot in Mozambique's capital Maputo left 33 people dead and 15 injured, the country's police general commander Bernardino Rafael said on Wednesday, as civil unrest linked to October's ...