Mozambique Opposition Chief Says He Escaped Assassination Attempt

Mozambique’s leading opposition politician, Venancio Mondlane, claimed in a video this Monday to have escaped an attempted assassination in South Africa where he had taken refuge after last month’s disputed elections.

Mondlane rejects the results of the 9 October elections that the electoral authority says were won by the candidate of the Frelimo party, in power since 1975.

He claims he won and has used social media to call for protests and strikes.

“When I was in South Africa, assassins were at…