In Mozambique's forest heart, war fears haunt local election


  • World
  • Wednesday, 20 Nov 2013

GORONGOSA, Mozambique (Reuters) - Mozambicans voted on Wednesday in local elections, haunted by nagging fears of conflict as the ruling Frelimo party confronts an emerging political rival and an old civil war guerrilla chief who has taken his fight back to the bush.

In Gorongosa, a village in central Mozambique, voters lined up at two schools, some clearly nervous after opposition Renamo guerrillas in the surrounding hills left pamphlets threatening to disrupt the polls.

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