Mozambique’s attorney-general charged prominent opposition leader Venâncio Mondlane for incitement to terrorism and disobedience following post-election violence that left hundreds of people dead.
“The charge has already been formalised,” Mondlane told reporters in a press conference broadcast on state-owned TVM Tuesday. “The next steps now are to gather local and international lawyers” to discussion options, he said.
Months of unprecedented protests against the October election that extended the ruling party’s five-decade rule plagued the gas-rich southeast African nation, unsettling investors and squeezing the government’s already-tight finances. Mondlane, who officially came second to the ruling party’s Daniel Chapo in the vote, reached a deal in principle to end the violence in late March.
