Mozambique’s long-time opposition movement Renamo said Monday that last month’s disputed elections must be annulled, adding to rejection of the vote that has sparked weeks of deadly protests across the country.

The European Union (EU) has approved a R380 million addition to its support for the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) deployment in Mozambique’s oil and gas rich Cabo Delgado province.

“We used to hate elephants a lot,” Kenyan farmer Charity Mwangome says, pausing from her work under the shade of a baobab tree.

Mozambique will top the agenda when heads of state and government from the Southern African Development Community convene in Harare, with winds of change blowing throughout the region.

Protesters have enlisted children in what amounts to economic sabotage, the government of Mozambique said on Wednesday, as the opposition’s plans to paralyse trade seemed to falter.

The Border Management Authority has confirmed that it has temporarily suspended operations at the Lebombo port of entry due to ongoing post-election unrest in Mozambique on Wednesday.

Mauritius opposition leader Navin Ramgoolam was confirmed as prime minister on Tuesday following a thumping election victory for his coalition that took every parliamentary seat on the main island.

Côte d’Ivoire is sub Sahara Africa’s biggest importer of wine, says the US department of agriculture, and it is time American companies take advantage of the market.

Mozambican opposition presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane has called for gatherings at ports and borders, and in major cities from Wednesday for what he describes as a fourth round of demonstrations against a stolen election.

Mauritius’ incumbent Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth said on Monday his political alliance was headed for a major defeat to a rival coalition led by a three-time former premier following Sunday’s parliamentary election.

Mauritians are set to find out who will govern their Indian Ocean island nation for the next five years after a hotly disputed election race.

Ghana’s main opposition leader John Dramani Mahama looks set to win December’s presidential election, an opinion poll showed on Monday.

Somalia insisted Saturday that Ethiopia will not be part of a new African Union peacekeeping mission, as the two nations remain locked in a dispute that has sent shivers through the Horn of Africa.

It was business as usual at the Lebombo border post between SA and Mozambique on Saturday morning, with vehicles moving freely between both countries after a shutdown earlier this week.

Botswana’s new president Duma Boko used his inauguration on Friday to tell the world that he and his government were ushering in a “new political dawn”.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Friday that at least 30 people have been killed in Mozambique in almost three weeks of crackdowns on protests over a disputed presidential election.

Botswana swore in new president Duma Boko on Friday, cementing a whirlwind change of government after his landslide election victory last week kicked out the party in power for nearly 60 years.