Mozambique: At Least 176 People Shot Dead During ‘Turbo V8’ Unrest

Maputo — The “Decide’ Electoral Platform, a prominent Mozambican NGO, claims that at least 176 people were shot dead by the police last week during rioting by supporters of self-exiled presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane to protest against the fraudulent results of the general elections held on 9 October.

What Mondlane called the “Turbo V8′ phase of the unrest started on 23 December after the Constitutional Council, the country’s highest body in matters of electoral law, gave victory to…