{"id":189799,"date":"2025-01-27T16:48:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-political-assassinations-police-violence-and-lack-of-press-freedom-3-barriers-to-peace-in-mozambique\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T16:48:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:48:32","slug":"mozambique-political-assassinations-police-violence-and-lack-of-press-freedom-3-barriers-to-peace-in-mozambique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-political-assassinations-police-violence-and-lack-of-press-freedom-3-barriers-to-peace-in-mozambique\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Political Assassinations, Police Violence and Lack of Press Freedom &#8211; 3 Barriers to Peace in Mozambique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Mozambique&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/1\/13\/mozambique-opens-new-parliament-amid-opposition-protests-and-boycotts\" rel=\"noopener\">parliament<\/a> and its <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cr7en1452xjo\" rel=\"noopener\">new president<\/a>, Daniel Chapo, were sworn in in mid-January 2025 after a tumultuous post-election period of protests, barricades and police violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idea.int\/democracytracker\/report\/mozambique\/october-2024\" rel=\"noopener\">9 October 2024 elections<\/a> prompted countless reports of fraud, leading the European Union election observer mission to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eeas.europa.eu\/eeas\/mozambique-statement-spokesperson-presidential-elections_en?s=410430\" rel=\"noopener\">note<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">irregularities during counting of votes and unjustified alteration of election results.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Based on this, and other accounts of fraud, the opposition candidate Ven\u00e2ncio Mondlane <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/aimnews.org\/2024\/10\/11\/mondlane-declares-himself-the-winner\/\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a> to have won&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501270004.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>Mozambique&#8217;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. 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