{"id":183402,"date":"2024-10-27T06:09:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T04:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambiques-ruling-party-wins-elections-amid-nationwide-protests\/"},"modified":"2024-10-27T06:09:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T04:09:05","slug":"mozambiques-ruling-party-wins-elections-amid-nationwide-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambiques-ruling-party-wins-elections-amid-nationwide-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique&#8217;s Ruling Party Wins Elections Amid Nationwide Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>Authorities Should Respond to Demonstrations by Respecting Rights<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Mozambique&#8217;s election commission today <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/24\/world\/africa\/mozambique-election-results-fraud.html\" rel=\"noopener\">declared<\/a> Daniel Chapo and his ruling party Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frente de Liberta\u00e7\u00e3o de Mo\u00e7ambique, Frelimo) winners of the country&#8217;s October 9 general elections. The elections were marred by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/19\/mozambique-opposition-figures-killed-protest-disputed-election-podemos\" rel=\"noopener\">political killings<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mozambique-election-irregularities-results-protest-killings-50ea2d587e563dece5454253547897d4\" rel=\"noopener\">widespread irregularities<\/a>, and restrictions <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2024\/09\/11\/mozambique-abuses-against-media-activists-elections\" rel=\"noopener\">on freedom of expression<\/a> and assembly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">International observers, including the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peaceau.org\/en\/article\/preliminary-statement-african-union-election-observation-mission-9-october-2024-general-elections-in-the-republic-of-mozambique\" rel=\"noopener\">African Union<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eeas.europa.eu\/eom-mozambique-2024\/eu-eom-mozambiques-second-post-election-press-statement_en\" rel=\"noopener\">European Union<\/a>, and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thecommonwealth.org\/news\/commonwealth-observers-urge-restraint-mozambique-awaits-final-results-election\" rel=\"noopener\">the&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410250015.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities Should Respond to Demonstrations by Respecting Rights Mozambique&#8217;s election commission today declared Daniel Chapo and his ruling party Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frente de Liberta\u00e7\u00e3o de Mo\u00e7ambique, Frelimo) winners of the country&#8217;s October 9 general elections. The elections were marred by political killings, widespread irregularities, and restrictions on freedom of expression and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":183403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650313:1620e3b04aca6885be00ec0589b85415:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,821,682,10439,8617,257,7024,5253,7870,254,6552],"class_list":["post-183402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-elections","tag-mozambique-news","tag-mozambiques","tag-nationwide","tag-news","tag-party","tag-protests","tag-ruling","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wins"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650313:1620e3b04aca6885be00ec0589b85415:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}