A total of two hundred people have died in the election protests that have lasted for more than two months.
In Mozambique, located in Southeast Africa, at least 21 people have died in renewed election unrest, the country’s interior minister said Pascoal Ronda late Tuesday.
Demonstrators took to the streets again on Monday after the country’s Supreme Court confirmed the ruling party Frelimo as the winner of the parliamentary and presidential elections held in Mozambique in early October.
The director of the central hospital in the capital Maputo told news agency AFP that the operation of the hospital has been compromised because hundreds of employees have not been able to go to work. According to the director, the hospital treated almost a hundred people injured in the riots, about half of whom had received gunshot wounds.
According to local media, in addition to Maputo, there have been unrest in many cities and provinces in the north, where the support of the opposition has been strong.
By mid-December, the monitoring organization had died in the post-election unrest Plataforma Decide including a total of at least 130 people.
The number of votes for the winner of the presidential election decreased
The Supreme Court confirmed that Frelimo won the majority of parliamentary seats.
The court considered Frelimo’s presidential candidate Daniel Chapon received 65 percent of the votes, which is more than five percentage points less than the election result previously confirmed by the country’s election commission.
Chapo’s inauguration is scheduled to take place in mid-January.
The opposition candidate for the presidential election in exile Venancio Mondlane has accused the results of fraud and claimed to have received more than 50 percent of the votes. The election observers of the European Union, among others, have also reported on election fraud.
Frelimo has denied the accusations of electoral fraud against it.
Frelimo has been the ruling party in Mozambique since the country’s independence. The former Portuguese colony became independent in 1975.
Sources: Reuters, AFP, AP