MOZAMBIQUE: DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE Electoral disputes: "Constitutional" to accelerate appreciation of resources The Constitutional Council (CC) is to accelerate the analysis of appeals by eight political organizations that protested the decision of the National Electoral Commission (CNE) to exclude them total/partially from the electoral race on 28 October. Legally, the deadline for the publication of the ruling on complaints ends next Monday. Judges of this institution say are working to make its decision as soon as possible, probably until the end of the week. http://www.jornalnoticias.co.mz/pls/notimz2/getxml/pt/contentx/889699 Electoral Campaign - Disorder in Angoche Elements of the personal guard of the presidential candidate of RENAMO, Afonso Dlhakama a total of seven, accompanied by a group of supporters of that party in Angoche, in Nampula province, surrounded on Sunday evening last the building of the local District Command of Police of the Republic of Mozambique, an act aimed at the release of two individuals indicted for having played in the afternoon of Saturday, violence, embodied in beatings which killed one militant of FRELIMO which was transporting a motorcycle with a flag flown from his party. http://www.jornalnoticias.co.mz/pls/notimz2/getxml/pt/contentx/889673 Opposition accuses Frelimo of persecution The provincial delegates RENAMO and MDM (opposition) in Tambara district, Manica, today accused FRELIMO (in power) to prevent the election from the opposition and beat and destroy homes. RENAMO speaks five wounded. Albino Faife, RENAMO provincial delegate in Manica Province in central Mozambique, said yesterday that members of his party have been harassed and beaten for no longer support the party, and have even received death threats. The balance of violence against members of RENAMO also netted in five people (two in a coma and in intensive care in rural hospital site), destroyed five houses (one of which burned completely) and a delegate of the area had reported missing, said the official. http://www.opais.co.mz/opais/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2747:oposicao-acusa-frelimo-de-perseguicao&catid=63:politica&Itemid=273