Mozambique: Society Claims Police Killed 38 in Mogovolas

Maputo — The civil society organisation Koxukhoro, based in the northern Mozambican city of Nampula, claims that 38 people have died in clashes between artisanal miners and the police in the district of Mogovolas, and a further 13 people have been injured.

This is radically different from the version of events given by the police last week, which claimed that the clashes, in the Mogovolas administrative post of Iuluti, were between the police and members of the peasant militia known as the…