Mozambique: Veteran Calls for Discussion On Presidential Succession

Maputo — Oscar Monteiro, a veteran of the Mozambican war for independence, and once a member of the Political Commission of the ruling Frelimo Party, under the country’s first President Samora Machel, on Thursday called for a discussion of who should be Frelimo’s presidential candidate in the election scheduled for 9 October.

Speaking during a meeting of the national committee of the Association of veterans of the National Liberation Struggle (ACLLN), Monteiro declared that the most important…