The lawyer for Mozambique’s leading opposition candidate Venancio Mondlane, who ran for president in 9 October elections, was gunned down in Maputo on Saturday. The lawyer, Elvino Dias was killed with another candidate, Paulo Guambe, from the Podemos party backing Mondlane. Two gunmen shot up their car while it was immobile on a road in the centre of the capital, …

Unknown gunmen have killed a popular traditional chief, Adeyinka Folarin, the Baasegun of the Itunsokun community in Ogun State. The gunmen suspected to be cultists were said to have on Monday night around 8 pm attacked Folarin in his residence in Sagamu Two traditional rulers who did not want their names in print confirmed the killing. One of the traditional …