Mozambique: A Foreboding Set of Local Elections in Mozambique

The government’s heavy-handed response to recent local elections may spell trouble for Mozambique’s security and democracy prospects.

In 2021, audacious terrorist attacks in northern Mozambique made headlines, attracting global attention to a crisis that had been underway for several years, and prompting French energy giant Total to declare force majeure on its $20 billion liquefied natural gas project off the coast. At the time, analysts in the region and beyond stressed that in addition to…