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Mozambique: Police Admit Car Captured, 35 Dead in 3 Weeks

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] A Police car and police uniforms were captured by insurgents, police commander Bernadino Rafael admitted Wednesday (18 Dec). A photo circulating on social media shows an insurgents in a Mozambican police uniform with an Islamic State flag standing on the bonnet of what is obviously a Mozambican police car. This picture and photos of another captured car and and captured weapons appear on a French Twitter account of journalist Wassim Nasr of France 24, posted 8 Dec: https://twitter.com/SimNasr/status/120368 via LATEST NEWS
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Mozambique: Heroin Smugglers Caught Off Cabo Delgado

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] We published a detailed report on the heroin trade in Mozambique in 2018, on bit.ly/Moz-heroin (bit.ly/Moz-heroina in Portuguese) pointing out that the trade has been going on for at least two decades, regulated at high level in Frelimo. The trade is entirely transit, by boat to Cabo Delgado, road to Johannesburg, then sea to Europe. We estimated that at least 40 tonnes of heroin per year passes through Mozambique, worth perhaps $1 bn, of which at least $100 mn stays in Mozambique - an important contributi via LATEST NEWS
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Zimbabwe: Unpacking the Role of ZEC

[Zimbabwe Independent] IT has become very fashionable to trash-talk the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec).In both print and electronic media, as well as social media, on both sides of the political divide, no one is happy with the work that is done by Zec. There is an element of distrust, a feeling that all is not well within the commission. via LATEST NEWS
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