Thirty-three inmates were killed and 15 others sustained injuries during a violent clash with the prison's security forces.

The Mozambican Prison Service (SERNAP) on Thursday announced that the authorities have so far recaptured 322 inmates of the 1,534 who escaped from the Maputo Central prison and the adjacent Top ...

Some of the over 2,500 households from Morrumbala district, in the central Mozambican province of Zambezia, who entered ...

The escape from the Maputo Central Prison, located 14 km southwest of the capital, started around midday Wednesday after ...

Mozambique's largely deserted capital was hit on Tuesday by skirmishes between protesters and police, AFP reporters said, the ...

Over 6,000 inmates escaped a maximum-security prison in Mozambique amidst post-election violence. The escape led to ...

The "Decide' Electoral Platform, a prominent Mozambican NGO, claims that at least 176 people were shot dead by the police ...

Hundreds of buildings were damaged or looted, including schools and hospitals, in a wave of unrest after Daniel Chapo was ...

Mozambique’s post-election chaos deepens as prisoners flee Maputo’s maximum-security facility, with numbers still disputed ...

Informal militias have sprung up in several neighbourhoods in Maputo and the neighbouring city of Matola as panic-stricken residents seek to protect themselves against gangs of mysterious ...

MAPUTO, Mozambique. — At least 6,000 inmates escaped from a high-security prison in Mozambique’s capital on Christmas Day after a rebellion, the country's police chief said, as widespread post ...

Mozambique’s largely deserted capital was hit yesterday by skirmishes between protesters and police, AFP reporters said, the ...