Good afternoon. The pots and pans demonstration is continuing every night in the city of Maputo, and barricades are still stopping traffic on the major road arteries running into the city.

In some cases the barricades have become unruly, and there have been instances of people manning the barricades demanding payment to let vehicles pass.

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In this morning's Zitamar News Daily Call, Fernando Lima and Tomas Queface shared their first-hand experiences of barricades and protests in Maputo over the weekend, and discussed how the demonstrations are developing.

Listen here to part of the team's conversation this morning:

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Zitamar Mozambique Live Blog

The NGO Plataforma Eleitoral Decide reported yesterday that at least 22 people have died in three days of protests in Mozambique, between 13-15 November. Over half of the deaths occurred in Maputo. The protests, initiated by presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane, also resulted in 23 people being shot and 80 detained. The breakdown of deaths includes seven in Nampula, two in Zambézia, nine in Maputo province, and four in the capital. Among the injured, 10 were shot in Nampula, three in Zambézia, three in Manica, and others in Maputo. The report also notes 80 detentions, with 18 in Maputo and 23 in Zambézia. The NGO’s Facebook page containing the reports is here Sign up for Zitamar’s daily briefing email here Follow Zitamar on our Telegram Channel, on BlueSky, Twitter / X, Facebook, and Linkedin

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Statistics on people killed during demonstrations since 21 October are contradictory, but some institutions are now saying that the figure could surpass 50 people, including policemen beaten to death by angry mobs

Zitamar Mozambique Live Blog

The Council of Ministers of the European Union (EU) this morning approved a €20 million top-up to the EU’s financial assistance for the deployment of the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province. This support will enable the acquisition of personal equipment, and cover costs related to the strategic airlift needed to sustain the Rwandan deployment in Cabo Delgado, the Council said in a statement. The Rwandan deployment started in July 2021 at the request of Mozambican authorities, to support the fight against terrorism in Cabo Delgado. SEE: Rwanda announces immediate deployment to Cabo Delgado, SADC to join next week - Zitamar Josep Borrell, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, described today’s decision as showing the “EU’s support to ‘African solutions for African problems’”, and said it would also serve EU interests in the region, “as part of the global fight against terrorism”. The EU previously provided €20m for the Rwandan deployment in December 2022, to “enable the acquisition of collective and personal equipment,” and to cover costs related to the strategic airlift needed to sustain the deployment.

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Belgium is understood to have abstained in the vote, due to concerns over Rwanda’s proxy M23 militia fighting the government in the Democratic Republic of Congo

The bad behaviour of a minority of protesters has now become the stuff of national debate. Mia Couto, the renowned novelist, who weighed in with a newspaper column calling on the bar association, the Ordem dos Advogados de Moçambique (OAM), to call on the demonstrators to stop impeding people from going about their daily business, alongside their calls for human rights to be upheld, which is what OAM has been focusing on up to now.