The Mozambican army said on Thursday it had rescued at least 280 women and children who were kidnapped by a group calling themselves "Naparamas", traditional warriors historically respected in the ...

Fewer than 15 percent of voters turned out. The Mozambique National Resistance (RENAMO) and many of the smaller parties which stood in the 1994 multiparty elections called for a boycott and used ...

Amnesty said its report was based on interviews with 28 people, including eyewitnesses, victims, victims' relatives ... framed by a 15-year civil war between Frelimo and rebel group Renamo, which ...

FRELIMO made some gains in the north but RENAMO kept control over large areas there and in the center. In the south, where the RENAMO vote was insignificant in 1994, it did slightly better.