Development bloc concerned about Mozambique’s post-election violence 

Mount Hampden, ZIMBABWE — 

The Southern African Development Community held an bonzer acme of heads of authorities successful Zimbabwe connected Wednesday to sermon the post-election strife successful Mozambique and the struggle successful eastbound Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Mozambique has been rocked by unit since past month’s elections, with constabulary accused of sidesplitting astatine slightest 30 protesters, according to civilian nine organizations there. The absorption accuses the FRELIMO government, which was represented by Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi, of stealing the October 9 elections.

"Summit received an update of the Republic of Mozambique connected the post-election governmental and information concern successful the state and reaffirmed its unwavering committedness to enactment with the Republic of Mozambique successful ensuring peace, information and stableness done the applicable structures of the SADC organ connected politics, defence and information cooperation," said the group's enforcement secretary, Elias Magosi. "Summit extended condolences to the authorities and radical of the Republic of Mozambique for the lives mislaid during the post-election violence.”

Earlier successful the day, Magosi said those aggrieved successful Mozambique should prosecute ineligible solutions alternatively of resorting to violence.

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who holds the rotating chairmanship of SADC, did not talk astir the concern successful Mozambique during his eight-minute closing remarks.

He talked lone astir the struggle successful eastbound DRC. Since 2022, the Congolese service has been warring a rebel service with the assistance of soldiers from immoderate SADC countries.

Speaking from Maputo via WhatsApp earlier Mnangagwa’s speech, Albino Forquilha of the Optimist Party for the Development of Mozambique (PODEMOS) — which is protesting unneurotic with supporters of Venancio Mondlane, the runner-up successful past month's disputed statesmanlike predetermination — said they were not speechmaking overmuch into the SADC meeting.

“The PODEMOS enactment has mobilized radical to protestation the effect that was announced by the electoral committee of Mozambique, which presented results which disagree with those that were collected connected the voting tables [polling stations]," Forquilha said. "So, we are requesting just elections. The law court, which is the past instauration to springiness results successful a transparent mode — it’s important to telephone representatives of competing governmental parties erstwhile they validate the election. Everyone tin judge them, due to the fact that the [confirming] process of these 2 antithetic numbers has been transparent. This is what we are requesting now.”

Opposition parties successful Mozambique disagree that FRELIMO’s candidate, Daniel Chapo, won the statesmanlike election.

In a authorities of the federation code connected Tuesday, Nyusi invited the 4 statesmanlike candidates for a dialog arsenic portion of a bid to extremity post-election protests.