Gaza. Macia Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/gaza-macia/ The low down on African affairs Fri, 04 Oct 2019 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 Gaza. Macia Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/gaza-macia/ 32 32 Road deaths take the greatest toll in Mozambique election campaign https://jjcornish.com/2019/10/road-deaths-take-the-greatest-toll-in-mozambique-election-campaign/ Fri, 04 Oct 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/10/road-deaths-take-the-greatest-toll-in-mozambique-election-campaign/ Road accidents have caused the most deaths in the campaign running up to Mozambican elections on October 15. More than 20 people – most of them Frelimo supporters – have died in crashes. The latest fatality is a child who ran out of the schoolyard in the Gaza village of Macia to pick up political […]

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]]> Road accidents have caused the most deaths in the campaign running up to Mozambican elections on October 15.

More than 20 people – most of them Frelimo supporters – have died in crashes.

The latest fatality is a child who ran out of the schoolyard in the Gaza village of Macia to pick up political pamphlets thrown nearby. The 10-year-old was killed while returning to the premises.

27 people were injured when a truck that was carrying people from a rally addressed  by President Felipe Nyusi in Gaza overturned.

The most serious accident occurred last  month when seven people died in an overturned truck in Tete province.

All parties have been accused of crowding people into open lorries to transport huge numbers of people to rallies 

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