Mozambique: Political Assassinations, Police Violence and Lack of Press Freedom – 3 Barriers to Peace in Mozambique

Mozambique’s parliament and its new president, Daniel Chapo, were sworn in in mid-January 2025 after a tumultuous post-election period of protests, barricades and police violence.

The 9 October 2024 elections prompted countless reports of fraud, leading the European Union election observer mission to note

irregularities during counting of votes and unjustified alteration of election results.

Based on this, and other accounts of fraud, the opposition candidate Venâncio Mondlane claimed to have won…