MOZAMBIQUE: DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE A journalist from Radio Community Nacala-Porto, Nampula province, was "brutally beaten" in the local headquarters of the RENAMO party, denounced Friday the Media Institute of Southern Africa in Mozambique (MISA-Mozambique). The beating, says the Institute, took place Wednesday morning when the reporter went to the headquarters of RENAMO to know the campaign schedule. MISA-Mozambique said the work of the media is not in this first week of the campaign, to be easy. http://www.opais.co.mz/opais/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2714:jornalista-e-brutalmente-espancado-em-nacala&catid=45:sociedade&Itemid=176 Election Observers are already in Maputo Since the morning of Saturday, Election Observers from the European Union are in the country. They arrived in the Mozambican capital to monitor the electoral process prevailing in the country. http://www.opais.co.mz/opais/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2719:observadores-eleitorais-ja-estao-em-maputo&catid=63:politica&Itemid=273 G 19 satisfied with government performance The group of 19 countries that has given millions of dollars in support to the general budget of the Mozambican state, is satisfied with the performance of the Government, despite the complexity of the electoral process the country is experiencing these days is to smear the state of democracy in Mozambique. This information was released late on Friday in the capital, the Ambassador of Finland, Kari Alanko. Escorpião, 21 September 2009. Decision of the Parliament on the loss of mandates of MPs affiliated with the MDM will be known on September 29 The final decision of the Parliament, on the letter submitted by Renamo, to request removal from office of Members elected to this term by the Coalition Renamo-Electoral Union, but which now appear on lists of candidates by the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM) for the legislative elections of 28 October next, will be known on September 29. The Committee on Human Rights and Legal Affairs, will next week, consider the case and issue its opinion. According to the Head of that Commission, Ussumane Aly Dauto, his team has asked the National Electoral Commission (CNE) the heads list of MDM to check whether those members are or are not registered. (Canal de Moçambique. 18th September, 2009)