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‘The War Broke Out and I Broke Down’: Expectations and Aspirations in Forging Solidarity between Dutch Activists and Southern African Liberation Leaders
ABSTRACT The 1960s and 1970s were crucial for the forging of solidarity networks between liberation movements in the Portuguese colonies and groups in Western Europe. Research has focused on specific nodes in this network but less is known about their interrelations. This article analyses the relations between Dutch solidarity activists and liberation movements in the southern African Portuguese colonies, with a special focus on the Mozambican FRELIMO liberation movement.
The crisis of African liberators
Since the results of the general elections on October 9 were announced, a wave of demonstrations and civil protests has swept Mozambique, challenging what is seen as electoral fraud in favor of the Frelimo party, which has been in power since independence. On October 24, the electoral bodies gave victory to Daniel Chapo, the ruling candidate, with 70.61 percent of the votes, against 20.37 percent for the runner-up, Venâncio Mondlane, supported by the newly created Podemos party.
Political assassinations, police violence and lack of press freedom: 3 barriers to peace in Mozambique
Mozambique’s parliament and its new president, Daniel Chapo, were sworn in in mid-January 2025 after a tumultuous post-election period of protests, barricades and police violence. The 9 October 2024 elections prompted countless reports of fraud, leading the European Union election observer mission to note irregularities during counting of votes and unjustified alteration of election results.
Mozambique: Political Assassinations, Police Violence and Lack of Press Freedom - 3 Barriers to Peace in Mozambique
Mozambique's parliament and its new president, Daniel Chapo, were sworn in in mid-January 2025 after a tumultuous post-election period of protests, barricades and police violence. The 9 October 2024 elections prompted countless reports of fraud, leading the European Union election observer mission to note irregularities during counting of votes and unjustified alteration of election results.
Political assassinations, police violence and lack of press freedom: 3 barriers to peace in Mozambique
Mozambique’s parliament and its new president, Daniel Chapo, were sworn in in mid-January 2025 after a tumultuous post-election period of protests, barricades and police violence. The 9 October 2024 elections prompted countless reports of fraud, leading the European Union election observer mission to note irregularities during counting of votes and unjustified alteration of election results.
Political assassinations, police violence and lack of press freedom: 3 barriers to peace in Mozambique
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No justice, no peace in Mozambique
On October 9, Mozambicans cast their ballots in the general election. After widespread fraud during last year’s municipal vote, many believed that the outcome was a foregone conclusion. The ruling party would rig the results, the opposition would capitulate, and Frelimo would usher in its sixth decade of rule. Sure enough, the election was fraught with irregularities: from ghost voters to fake observers, ballot box stuffing, and fictitious counting.
In the shadow of Mondlane
On October 9, 2024, Mozambique held its seventh presidential elections since the political opening and establishment of multi-party rule in 1992. Until then, the country lived under a one-party regime, led by Frelimo (Mozambique Liberation Front), as a result of an independence process in 1975, achieved in the context of the Cold War, in which the country aligned itself with the socialist bloc at a geopolitical level.
The end of Mozambique’s two-party system?
The saying “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” can help us understand what is currently happening in Mozambique between “Frenamo” (an alleged alliance between the Frelimo and Renamo parties on issues of common interest) and Podemos (Povo Otimista para o Desenvolvimento de Moçambique). On October 9, Mozambicans exercised their right to vote in the country’s seventh general election since 1994.
Violent Resistance. Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique. Corinna Jentzsch
If you stop listening to those actively involved in a war, you lost your chance of intervening helpfully. Contemporary civil wars pose fundamental analytical problems for academics and policymakers alike. Oftentimes, it may not be difficult to dissect who is fighting a war or who is suffering from its immediate and intermediate fallout. Yet, understanding the individual and collective drivers of conflict requires serious, sustained engagement across cases, methods, and concepts.
Origens e Consequências das Forças Locais em Cabo Delgado
Alguns anos após o início da guerra em Cabo Delgado, as comunidades começaram a mobilizar-se para se protegerem e formar milícias – ou forças de autodefesa, conhecidas como “forças locais”. Esta questão tem recebido mais atenção nos últimos meses, uma vez que políticos e membros da sociedade civil têm discutido o estatuto legal de tais forças para responder aos insurgentes islâmicos.
Cabo Ligado Monthly: May 2022 — Cabo Ligado
Origins and Consequences of the Local Forces in Cabo Delgado By Corinna Jentzsch, Institute of Political Science, Leiden University A couple of years after the beginning of the war in Cabo Delgado, communities began to mobilize to protect themselves and form militias – or self-defense forces, known as “forças locais,” or local forces.
Mozambique: The State Has Lost Trust and Remains Unaccountable
For the third time, Kenya has postponed the deadline for phasing out the old generation passport and the introduction of the biometric e-passport. Kenya, together with its East African Community (EAC) partners, is doing away with the “analogue” passport and replacing it with an electronic document.
Violent Resistance
Why do communities form militias to defend themselves against violence during civil war? Using original interviews with former combatants and civilians and archival material from extensive fieldwork in Mozambique, Corinna Jentzsch's Violent Resistance explains the timing, location and process through which communities form militias. Jentzsch shows that local military stalemates characterized by ongoing violence allow civilians to form militias that fight alongside the government against rebels.
Mozambique's Peace Deal Does Not Ensure Stability
On August 6, Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi and Ossufo Momade, leader of the rebel group turned opposition party Renamo, signed a peace deal that ended the most recent flare-up in an intermittent civil conflict dating back four decades.
Is environmental philanthropy still a white man’s game?
In our ravaged anthropocene, few things seem more noble and worthwhile than rebuilding a national park, increasing the stock of wildlife, preserving biodiversity and saving the ecosystem. If these efforts manage to turn a profit by attracting tourists, even better. But what happens when well-intentioned foreign aid efforts consider would-be beneficiaries as its enemies?
“Africa is finally seizing control of its image”-but which Africa and which image?
Al Jazeera continues its journey on the “Africa Rising” trail, this time with a documentary series on cultural elites—young photographers from Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, the Republic of Congo, and South Africa (see our review on the previous series on African business men here). “Africa is finally seizing control of its image”—this is the motto of the documentary series.
Here are 4 reasons why Mozambique isn’t a post-war success story
Last month, Mozambique and the international community celebrated an important achievement: The southern African nation was declared landmine-free. This took more than 20 years after the end of a civil war that ravaged the country between 1976-1992. And that conflict had followed an armed independence struggle against Portugal that lasted more than 10 years. The clearing of the mines was the culmination of a post-war success story.
Who’s fighting the Islamic State? Five things you need to know about militias in civil wars.
As you listen to the latest news about Islamic State in Iraq, you may have been puzzled by the prominence of Shiite militias, fighting alongside the Iraqi army against IS. Throughout the region—and far beyond, from Colombia to Sudan—militias support governments in military actions against non-state armed groups in areas in which the state has been weak or effectively absent.
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