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TotalEnergies must face up to its responsibilities in Mozambique

Paul Martial — 2025-12-04T21:51:30Z

A complaint against TotalEnergies for complicity in war crimes in Mozambique has just been lodged with the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (PNAT), following the ‘container massacre'.

- IVP611 - December 2025 / Ecology and the Environment, Mozambique

The state of Africa in the new world order

Will Shoki — 2025-04-10T08:39:23Z

Africa today stands at a crossroads, caught between internal crises, shifting global power dynamics, and the slow unraveling of the post-liberation political order. Across the continent, ruling parties that once commanded legitimacy as national liberators are losing their grip; yet the opposition remains fragmented, offering little in the way of alternative governance.

- IVP603 - April 2025 / United States (USA), Africa, China, South Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Mozambique, Botswana

Africa: oil means blood for blood profits with the EU

Paul Martial — 2024-12-15T13:47:55Z

To protect its oil multinationals, the European Union has no qualms about funding the armies of African dictatorships. Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique, is home to a jihadist guerrilla group that began in 2017 with an attack on police stations in the town of Mocímboa da Praia. The group is made up of young people who have questioned the local population's Islamic practices, deeming them to be non-compliant.

- IV599 - December 2024 / United States (USA), Italy, France, Rwanda, Mozambique

A fraud too far in Mozambique

Paul Martial — 2024-12-09T10:21:24Z

Mozambique, a Portuguese-speaking country in southern Africa, is used to cyclones, but it's experiencing a completely different storm. The storm was caused by the mass mobilisation against electoral fraud at the general elections on 9 October. While the authorities declared the victory as president of Daniel Chapo, the candidate of the ruling Frelimo party, with 71% of the vote, Venâncio Mondlane, the main opponent with 20% of the vote, is contesting the results. The mobilisations reflect a desire for change, but the opposition is far from representing a political alternative that will serve the people.

- IV599 - December 2024 / Mozambique

Elections smelling of gas in Mozambique!

Paul Martial — 2024-10-28T09:31:00Z

As the results of Mozambique's presidential election approach, tension is mounting and the ruling FRELIMO (Mozambique Liberation Front) party is not about to relinquish power, hoping to benefit from the gas windfall. Nearly 17 million voters were expected in Mozambique for the parliamentary, provincial and presidential elections on 9 October.

- IV597 - October 2024 / Ecology and the Environment, Mozambique

The new civil war in Mozambique

Joseph Hanlon — 2021-08-04T06:37:45Z

“The best scenario is to create 10,000 jobs and end the war. The worst-case scenario is that Mozambique turns into a new Afghanistan.”

- IV559 - August 2021 / Mozambique

A dictatorship of no alternatives, or an alternative to the dictators?

Boaventura Monjane — 2015-01-30T05:56:57Z

The victory of Felipe Nyusi and the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo) in the October 15 presidential and parliamentary elections pours cold water on the hopes of many who were convinced that 2014 would bring political change to Mozambique. Instead, Frelimo will maintain its stranglehold on political power for another five years, with an absolute majority in parliament. Accredited observers, independent reports and the media documented numerous breakdowns of transparency and fairness in the recent electoral process.

- IV480 - January 2015 / Mozambique