Afonso Dhalakam Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/afonso-dhalakam/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 14 Oct 2014 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Afonso Dhalakam Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/afonso-dhalakam/ 32 32 Voting starts in Mozambique https://jjcornish.com/2014/10/voting-starts-mozambique/ Tue, 14 Oct 2014 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2014/10/voting-starts-mozambique/ Polls have opened for the 10 million voters in Mozambique casting their ballot in the most upbeat election since ending the civil war 24 years ago. Frelimo’s Felipe Nyusi is expected to win the contest and replace Armando Guebuza as president. Ends intro The real race is between Afonso Dhlakama’s Renamo and the breakaway Mozambique […]

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]]> Polls have opened for the 10 million voters in Mozambique casting their ballot in the most upbeat election since ending the civil war 24 years ago.

Frelimo’s Felipe Nyusi is expected to win the contest and replace Armando Guebuza as president. Ends intro

The real race is between Afonso Dhlakama’s Renamo and the breakaway Mozambique Democratic Movement for Daviz Simango for the role of official opposition.

Mozambique, once the poorest country on the planet, is experiencing a resources boom.

It’s people expect this to create jobs and break the inequality that grips the country.

More than 1000 observers from the region and further abroad are in the country for the fifth election since the end of the civil war in 1992.

 

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