The President of Frelimo and head of the Mozambican state has called on the party’s deputies to reflect on revising the law on compulsory retirement at 60 years ...

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 ...

MAPUTO — Voters thronged polling stations across Mozambique for municipal elections that have been overshadowed by renewed clashes between the two armed groups that put the country through a long ...

Mozambique is set for a watershed election that will see a change of the presidential guard, with the era of leaders who forged their careers in the trenches of the independence war against Portuguese ...

Mozambique’s ruling party Frelimo has retained power in this month's national election, extending its five-decade rule as the opposition cries fraud. Frelimo’s Daniel Chapo, 47, will succeed President ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brazen rigging has marred the Mozambican local authority elections. The court's nullification of some results shows the judiciary's independence so far. A leading political analyst says with Frelimo ...

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 ...

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 ...