Mozambique News

Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, has once again threatened an "incendiary revolution", because of the alleged "theft of votes" in last week's general elections.

Mozambique political process bulletin A highly unlikely 66% turnout in Tete suggests massive ballot box stuffing.

A SADC Summit on Zimbabwe, aimed at reviving the troubled inclusive government, kicked off in Maputo, Mozambique on Thursday.

MAPUTO, 5 November 2009 - Helena Numaio was 12 years old in 1990 when she lost both her legs and a finger in a landmine explosion while collecting firewood in the Moamba district of Maputo Province, Mozambique.

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said that if the SADC Troika on Security, Defence and Politics did not produce results, he would insist on a full summit of the 15-member Southern African Development Community to resolve the crisis.

Without waiting for the final results to be announced, a prominent member of Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, has demanded that Wednesday's general elections be annulled.

The conversations of deminers are often illustrated with sketches on the reverse side of old reports or the toe of a boot drawing lines in the sand to show how a single mine can close 35km of road, make a bridge redundant or deny a community a swathe of farming land.

Eds: APNewsNow. Moving on general news and financial services. AP Photo JOH104, JOH103 MAPUTO, Mozambique Mozambique's long governing party faces questions about its commitment to democracy as the nation heads into general elections.

President Armando Guebuza casts his ballot for presidential, parliamentary, provincial assembly elections in Maputo, 28 Oct 2009 Provisional results from last week's elections in Mozambique show President Armando Guebuza and his Frelimo party appear to be heading for a landslide victory.

Mozambique will host a regional summit on Zimbabwe on Thursday in hopes of breaking a deadlock that threatens Harare's fragile unity government, the foreign ministry spokeswoman said.

Incumbent President Armando Guebuza leads in Mozambique's elections by a wide margin, with more than 80 percent of votes counted.

'The Mozambicans are coming to the polls calmly. The electoral campaign has been fairly tranquil, although there have been a few low-key incidents,' Agenzia Fides has been told by local Church sources in Mozambique, where today , nearly 10 million voters are electing a president and legislative and provincial leaders .

Mozambique's incumbent president looks set to serve a second term of office as partial results of the country's presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections are announced.

Mozambique's ruling party enjoyed a firm lead in early election returns on Thursday, the day after the Southern African country went to the polls in its fourth democratic elections, local media said.

Mozambicans voted today in elections reported to have had a massive youth turnout.

As Mozambique heads to the polls on Wednesday, the country's ruling party looks set for an easy victory over an opposition that has been battered by a recent split and bruised by a series of election losses.

Mozambique's opposition leader of three decades says he won't seek the presidency again if defeated in elections on Wednesday, which are likely to be won by the ruling party credited with one of Africa's biggest success stories.

The Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Political Military Affairs will provide $2 million in new assistance to help Mozambique safeguard its citizens from abandoned landmines and unexploded munitions remaining from decades of conflict.

With Mozambique's opposition divided by a recent split, getting out the vote is seen as crucial in a race where turnout will be the measure of satisfaction for incumbent President Armando Guebuza and Frelimo, which has governed Mozambique since independence in 1975.

After South Africa, Malawi and Botswana the 2009 southern Africa election express rolls into the region's rising star, Mozambique, this week.