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On Thursday, the political landscape of the country saw a dramatic turn as opposition leader Venancio Mondlane made his homecoming. This return comes just before the much-anticipated inauguration of Danial Chapo, the candidate from the ruling party who was proclaimed the winner of the presidential elections held on October 9, 2024. The atmosphere, however, was anything but celebratory. Reports by allAfrica’s Boakai Fofana reveal that tensions flared as police clashed with Mondlane’s supporters. Their attempts to gather at…

In Mozambique, on March 24, a group claiming to be international jihadists carried out a spectacular attack on the city of Palma in the north of the country. Since then, the situation is far from normal again and the security crisis is added to the humanitarian crisis. Dino Mahtani, Deputy Director of the Africa Program for the International Crisis Group, visited Cabo Delgado in early 2021 to investigate this jihadist group that has…

In Senegal, demonstrations and riots were not only concentrated in Dakar after the affair with Ousmane Sonko, leader of the opposition party Pastef-Les patriotes, who is accused of rape and death threats. Other regions mobilized and rose up to "defend democracy". A struggle that goes beyond the person of Ousmane Sonko, as in Saint-Louis in the north of the country, a city particularly affected by youth…