FILE PHOTO: A woman prepares her stall, with election posters in the background, ahead of the presidential elections, in the suburb of Katembe, Maputo, Mozambique, October 7, 2024. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo
MAPUTO (Reuters) -Voting was underway in Mozambique in a tense general election highly likely to deliver victory for the ruling party, Frelimo, which has governed the southern African nation since 1975.
Poverty is the major concern for Mozambique's 35 million people, half of whom are registered to vote, along with an Islamist insurgency in the north that has forced thousands to flee their homes and halted multi-billion-dollar gas projects.
