Some have had enough, others just can’t get enough. Support for Frelimo, Mozambique’s ruling party since independence in 1975, was the issue when about 9,5-million voters went to the polls on ...

Mozambique’s Constitutional Council on Monday confirmed that Daniel Chapo of the ruling Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo) had won the October 9 presidential election. However, the seven-judge ...

The ruling Frelimo party in Mozambique has selected Daniel Chapo, a regional governor who is relatively unknown, as its new leader. This choice positions him as the successor to President Filipe Nyusi ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Leaving colonial Mozambique to attend university in Portugal in 1958, José Oscar Monteiro remembers being much ...

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On October 9, Mozambicans will elect a new head of state and members of parliament. The ruling Frelimo party is expected to win. Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, has been covered in red banners for ...

Election officials in Mozambique have announced ruling left-wing party Frelimo's Daniel Chapo as the winner of the presidential election. Government opponents say the vote was tainted with electoral ...

Izilda Matola, 27, sits under a torn umbrella surrounded by her fellow vegetable vendors on a hot day at the busy Xipamanine market in Mozambique’s capital Maputo, temporarily joining a group of youth ...

Among other alleged acts of election rigging, the tightly Frelimo-controlled electoral authorities registered hundreds of thousands of voters more than the numbers of eligible voters, some election ...

Provisional results from Mozambique's elections show the ruling Frelimo party winning both the presidential and parliamentary polls. The results announced Friday show Frelimo presidential candidate ...

MAPUTO, March 2 (Reuters) - Mozambique's ruling Frelimo party early on Sunday picked Defence Minister Filipe Nyusi, a close ally of current two-term President Armando Guebuza, to be its candidate for ...

Renamo confidently expects to win the majority of the 33 municipalities it will contest in next week’s local elections. “No doubt about it,” says Renamo secretary general Vianna Magalhaes.