Mozambique: Bar Association Protests At Election Violence

Maputo — The Mozambican Bar Association (OAM) has expressed “deep concern at the high level of violence’ in the country’s municipal elections.

A statement issued on Saturday, and signed by the OAM chairperson, Carlos Martins, warned of “serious damage to our young democracy’.

“The levels of violence, may not only cast doubt on any election result, but may throw suspicion on the electoral act as a whole, and on the institutions that administer it’, said the OAM.

“We believe that it is at times of…