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	Mozambique awaits forthcoming elections in quietness - Xinhuanet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The ruling Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo) and its main rival Mozambique National Resistance (Renamo) each dominated certain provinces and towns as their strongholds, and the Maputo city is a traditional support base for Frelimo.
		In the 1999 elections, Chissano was reelected with 52 percent of the votes while Dhlakama came in with 48 percent.
		Mozambique has maintained an average economic growth rate of 10percent in the past decade, and whoever wins the elections is expected to continue economic reforms that have seen the country become the subject of one of the biggest World Bank programs on the continent.
	news.xinhuanet.com /english/2004-11/30/content_2274960.htm (682 words)

	Politics of Mozambique - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Politics of Mozambique takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Mozambique is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		An overview on elections and election results is included in Elections in Mozambique.
		Armando Guebuza was inaugurated as the President of Mozambique on February 2, 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Mozambique (1438 words)

	Mozambique - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Mozambique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The first European to reach Mozambique was Vasco da Gama in 1498, and the country became a Portuguese colony in 1505.
		From 1980 Mozambique was faced with widespread drought, which affected most of southern Africa, and attacks by mercenaries under the banner of the Mozambique National Resistance (MNR) – also known as Renamo – who were covertly but strongly backed by South Africa.
		Mozambique's economic problems were aggravated in 1987 by food shortages, after another year of drought.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Mozambique (1228 words)

	Mozambique NICS/RNIS Acticles
		The pace of repatriation to Mozambique was fastest between April and October 1994 partly as a result of the October elections and also so as to returnees could prepare land in time for the 1994-5 crop season.
		The elections and subsequent installation of the new president in early December 1994 took place without incident and it now appears that Mozambique is entering a period of relative peace and stability.
		Mozambique is gradually preparing for the general election in October but the government and RENAMO are demobilising soldiers more slowly than expected.
	www.unsystem.org /scn/Publications/RNIS/countries/mozambique_all.htm (8208 words)

	Pepe Diniz's Electoral Notes on Mozambique
		These elections were the first of its kind ever to take place in Mozambique with its people having free access to the polls and voting or not voting as they wished.
		Although there was a municipal structure in Mozambique during the colonial era, it basically served the Portuguese community in the country and the majority of the Mozambican population had little or no say in the matter and could not vote.
		Lourenço Marques was officially recognized as the capital of Mozambique as of December 1, 1907.
	home.att.net /~pvrdiniz (4242 words)

	Mozambique
		Mozambique's constitutional Government, headed by President Joaquim Chissano, held its second general multiparty elections in December (the first multiparty elections were held in 1994).
		In September in an extraordinary session, the Assembly amended the electoral law by consensus to permit the general elections to be held on December 3-4.
		The National Election Commission was criticized for categorizing these government-supported newspapers as private-sector media, thereby exempting them from the electoral law's requirement that public media provide fair and balanced treatment of all parties during the electoral campaign.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/1999/262.htm (10521 words)

	Mozambique - Elections '99 - Sustainable Democracy - SARDC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mozambique’s Supreme Court, sitting as the Constitutional Council, has validated the presidential and parliamentary elections held 3-5 December, dashing the hopes of the opposition coalition who had petitioned the country’s highest court to nullify the results.
		Mozambique's Interior Minister, Almeininho Manhenje, has warned that police are on full alert and will deal ruthlessly with any disruptions after the announcement of the final results of results of the second multi-party elections due later today.
		Mozambique's much-lauded election process was beginning to come under criticism from voters, observers and monitors and media today (Wednesday) as unofficial results came in at a snail's pace.
	www.sardc.net /sd/elections99/mozambique/index.html (752 words)

	USAID: Mozambique
		During municipal elections held in 2003 and national elections in 2004, Mozambique continued to demonstrate its capacity to conduct increasingly free and fair elections.
		Mozambique is committed to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) free trade protocol, and the plan is to extend these concessions to all SADC countries on a most-favored nation basis.
		Mozambique is an essential link to global markets for several neighboring landlocked countries, and it has substantial growth potential through its economic ties to the industrial heartland of South Africa.
	www.usaid.gov /policy/budget/cbj2006/afr/mz.html (1260 words)

	Brief Mozambique History
		When Vasco da Gama, exploring for Portugal, reached the coast of Mozambique in 1498, Arab trading settlements had existed along the coast and outlying islands for several centuries, and political control of the coast was in the hands of a string of local sultans.
		In 1984, Mozambique negotiated the Nkomati Accord with PW Botha and the South African government, in which Mozambique was to expel the African National Congress in exchange for South Africa stopping support of Renamo.
		Mozambique held elections in 1994, which were accepted by most parties as free and fair.
	www.24carat.co.uk /mozambiquehistory.html (1227 words)

	AfricaFiles \| The Mozambique elections: RENAMO demands a recount
		Unlike in 1994 when the elections were guided by the UN with widespread international attention, the 1999 elections were run by Mozambique with an international presence limited to only a handful of observer organizations.
		Mozambique is a case in point since the legitimacy of Mozambique's recent commitment to multiparty elections, like many of its neighbours in southern Africa, hinges on all parties recognizing the election results.
		For the 1999 elections a new electoral law was passed and an entirely re-constituted CNE was made responsible for charting the course of the national elections.
	www.africafiles.org /article.asp?ID=3651 (2477 words)

	EU@UN - EU Presidency declaration on elections in Mozambique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The elections were observed by several international observer missions, including the European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) which, in its preliminary statement on 4 December, noted that polling was conducted in a free and transparent manner allowing the Mozambican people to express their will.
		While recognising these irregularities, the EU is of the opinion that this did not have an impact on the result of the elections, and therefore the EU calls on the opposition parties to accept the outcome of the elections.
		The EU considers that the 2004 elections in Mozambique represent a further step in the consolidation of democracy in Mozambique as well as of peace and stability in the country and it expresses the hope that they will reflect positively on the democratic climate in the Southern Africa region.
	europa-eu-un.org /articles/el/article_4173_el.htm (576 words)

	Mozambique elects Marxist hardliner by landslide in suspect elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The election took place on December 1-2, and the results were announced after a national tally on December 16.
		In stark contrast to the country’s first free presidential election a decade earlier, when there was a 90 percent turnout in a closely contested election, this year’s overall voter turnout nationwide was reported to be an apathetic 30 to 40 percent.
		Mozambique, though still plagued with corruption and poverty, has made great strides over the last 15 years, compared to the centuries of Portuguese colonialism or the years of Marxism and civil war.
	www.perspicacityonline.com /Articles/2004/12/Mozambique041222.htm (763 words)

	Portugal Mozambique Independence War 1962-1975
		Frelimo was formed in neighbouring Tanzania in 1962 by exiled Africans from Mozambique who were seeking to overthrow Portuguese colonial rule in their country.
		Frelimo subsequently restructured itself as a Marxist-Leninist party and tried to revive the country's shattered economy, but its efforts were hampered by its commitment to collective agriculture and by the destructive activities of the dissident Mozambican group known as Renamo.
		In l962 Mozambican representatives from exiled political groups met in Tanganyika and forged the Mozambique Liberation Front, or Frelimo (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique), with Eduardo Mondlane as its president.
	www.onwar.com /aced/data/mike/mozambique1962.htm (621 words)

	LOCAL ELECTIONS IN THE PRC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		These elections are held to select the leaders (usually three to seven people) who will administer collective property in the village, support economic development projects, and raise funds for roads, schools, and other community projects, as well as help mediate disputes and organize social services, including family planning, at the local level.
		In early elections, mobile ballot boxes roamed villages collecting voters’ choices, but these are falling into disuse in favor of fixed polling places and a centralized place to tally the votes.
		In the Hebei elections, perhaps a peculiarity in that province alone, voters also need to mark either yes or no for a candidate, meaning that someone voting carelessly would likely vote yes too many times, invalidating his or her ballot.
	www.cosmos-club.org /web/journals/2001/jrobinson.html (2225 words)

	Mozambique History Timeline - historic overview of Mocambique, Africa
		Mozambique receives economic support to the state farming from the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and the Nordic Countries.
		The South African resistance movement, the African National Congress (ANC), is permitted to work in the southern Mozambique bordering S.A. To the west, Frelimo permits the Rhodesian resistance organisation ZANU to operate from bases within Mozambique.
		Mozambique keeps their promise and closes the ANC bases, but South Africa unofficially continues their support of Renamo.
	crawfurd.dk /africa/mozambique_timeline.htm (4218 words)

	Major players in Mozambique's third general elections - Xinhuanet
		At the most recent elections in late 1999, President Chissano was reelected with 52.3 percent of the votes cast, and FRELIMO secured 133 of 250 parliamentary seats.
		During Mozambique's civil war, the party also received support from the apartheid regime of South Africa and some western countries.
		In the presidential election of December 1999, Dhlakama won 47.7 percent of the votes, defeated by President Chissano with a small margin of 4.6 percent.
	news.xinhuanet.com /english/2004-11/30/content_2278897.htm (348 words)

	Mozambique: Elections and Foreign Media, 02/09/00
		But the effect of forcing government ministers to react to anonymous claims that the elections were fraudulent is to keep those claims alive: the cloud of suspicion remains in the air.
		Since the article begins with an attack on Richard Holbrooke, the US ambassador to the UN, portrayed as naively accepting fraudulent elections in Mozambique, it is reasonable to assume that the plant comes from those in the State Department opposed to the Clinton administration's Africa policy.
		These were patiently checked, one by one, and a large number were salvaged, when the election commission decided that polling station staff had been too strict and that the voters, though they had not filled in their ballot papers perfectly, had indicated a clear preference.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /Urgent_Action/apic-2900.html (1622 words)

	afrol News - Mozambique elections generally hailed
		Several international election observer teams are in Mozambique at the invitation of the government.
		The team of 60 election observers by the Carter Centre however emphasised that the tabulation and verification of final results are ongoing.
		It was therefore "too early to evaluate the election as a whole." In particular the national, final tabulation was a source of concern.
	www.afrol.com /articles/14926 (651 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Machel, Samora Moïsès (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		MACHEL, SAMORA MOÏSÈS [Machel, Samora Moïsès], 1933-86, president of Mozambique (1975-86).
		Machel joined the Mozambican Liberation Front (Frelimo) in 1962, led its guerrilla forces by 1968, and in 1969 became president of the organization.
		Committed to creating a Marxist state, Machel was faced with extreme economic difficulties, including dependence on a hostile South Africa, unreliable Soviet aid, civil war in neighboring Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and a South African supported guerrilla resistance.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Machel-S.asp (116 words)

	Commonwealth Secretariat - Mozambique Local Elections 19 November 2003
		This is the Report of the Commonwealth Expert Team which was present for Mozambique's Local Elections in November 2003.
		It is reproduced here in the form in which it was signed by the Experts prior to their departure on 24 November.
		It was then sent to the President of Mozambique, the President of the National Electoral Commission and Commonwealth governments.
	www.thecommonwealth.org /document/35144/36213/mozambique_local_elections_03_report_released_2004.htm (172 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Mozambique sets elections for December 1-2
		MAPUTO – Mozambique will go to the polls on December 1-2 to elect a new president and parliament in elections that mark the retirement of veteran President Joaquim Chissano, officials said on Tuesday.
		Chissano, who took power after the 1986 assassination of Mozambique liberation hero and founding president Samora Machel, will enter a select African club of heads of state and government who have left office of their own free will.
		There was no explanation for why the polls had been moved forward and expanded to two days, though officials suggested it could be because of the challenges of arranging voting in the large and impoverished country.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040623-0513-mozambique-election.html (283 words)

	EU Election Observation Mission to Mozambique Local Elections on 19 November 2003 (EC Funding € 936,647) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The 2003 local elections are an important test for Mozambique's democracy, ahead of general elections next year.
		The deployment of the EU EOM follows an invitation from the National Election Commission of Mozambique and is a concrete expression of the EU's effort to foster local democratic institutions and political stability.
		The purpose of the EU EOM in Mozambique is to increase transparency and confidence in the election process through the presence and reporting of international observers.
	ec.europa.eu /comm/external_relations/human_rights/eu_election_ass_observ/mozambique/ip03_1305.htm (487 words)

	Too Early for a Vote in Iraq, Says Former Election Observer
		Pitcher traveled to Mozambique with a team of 59 other international experts to observe the country's Dec. 1 and 2 elections for the Carter Center.
		Pitcher says that in Mozambique's 2004 elections - about 12 years and three elections after the country's tumultuous civil war ended - intimidation and violence by opposing factions still played a role in the electoral process.
		Arrests of members of Mozambique's opposition parties, delayed poll openings, low voter turnout, and ballot irregularities all factored into an overwhelming win for the nation's ruling party, Pitcher believes.
	www.collegenews.org /x4079.xml (390 words)

	“Como Deus está connosco (), estamos certos que o eleitor moçambicano acompanhará a vontade de Deus”. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		If the role of churches and religion in Mozambique has been very significant and public in the late 1980s, early 1990s and during the elections, one has to note that this had not always been the case.
		Yet religious institutions were important to the running of the elections and they were very much sought after because of their influence.
		Protestantism has indeed an influence mainly in the south of Mozambique where the pattern of vote was overwhelmingly in favour of the party in power.
	www.brad.ac.uk /research/ijas/finnbp2.htm (3661 words)

	Mozambique elections Dec 3-4 1999
		Four candidates have registered for the presidential race in Mozambique's second multi-party polls due in December, an electoral official said Monday [11 Oct 1999].
		Dhlakama, who is from central Mozambique, was a fighter in the Portuguese army and after the 1974 accord he joined the RENAMO rebel movement.
		Initially, PIMO stood for Islamic Party of Mozambique, but Sibindi was forced to change to Independent Party of Mozambique to enable him to participate in the 1994 elections since the electoral regulations did not allow any political parties with religious background.
	www.niza.nl /uk/press/mz_elections.htm (478 words)

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