A lawyer and a party official for the leading opposition candidate in Mozambique’s recent presidential election were fatally shot in their car late Friday night, inflaming tensions in a southern African nation that was already on edge after the high

Mozambican cigar rollers, also known as “torcedores” assemble cigars at the Bongani Cigars workshop in Maputo, on October 8, 2024. – (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP) Maputo, Mozambique — In a small neon-lit factory in Maputo, a

Voters in Mozambique go to the polls on Wednesday to elect a new president who will face the tall task of figuring out how to defeat a yearslong Islamic State-backed insurgency that is deepening grave humanitarian and economic problems.solare Althou