Mozambique Police Crack Down on Opposition Before Election Results

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Supporters of the Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) gather in Maputo to celebrate the results in the local elections on October 12, 2023. © 2023 by Alfredo Zuniga/AFP via Getty Images Tensions appear to be rising in Mozambique as the country awaits the results of municipal elections held on Wednesday. Ahead of voting day, authorities had increased security measures throughout the country, following violent incidents reported in some municipalities during the election campaign. While election day was largely peaceful, the following day violence re-emerged in several…

Read complete article

~	If Europe wants to ‘go it alone’ on security, countries need to learn to sing from the same songsheet

~	The political painting that is still on trial in South Korea: How the unending Korean War became a permanent excuse to criminalize expression

~	Japan’s turning point for LGBTQ+ rights

~	Bird flu is deadly for backyard chickens – and even cats. A vet expert explains

~	Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jenny McAllister on ‘confronting but necessary’ NDIS reforms

~	Was Venezuela struck by an earthquake ‘doublet’? Here’s what we know so far

~	Caps are coming for domestic uni places, but the government also wants to grow student numbers. Can this work?

~	Grattan on Friday: Now’s the time to renovate multiculturalism, elevating ‘interculturalism’

~	Summer’s new normal is a hazard that’s testing Europe’s climate resilience

~	Lucy Guerin’s greatest legacy is she made her contemporary dance company more than herself