Mozambique Court Orders Surprise Vote Recount in Biggest City
A voter casts a vote in a polling station in Maputo on Oct. 11.
Photographer: Alfredo Zuniga/AFP/Getty Images
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A Mozambican district court on Thursday ordered a vote recount in the southeast African nation’s biggest city, a surprise move that could see the main opposition secure control of the Matola municipality if the initial result is overturned.
Courts earlier this week annulled and ordered recounts of ballots in the local elections in some parts of the neighboring city of Maputo, the capital. A recount in Matola, home to more than a million people, would be the first of its magnitude for the nation, which last year joined the ranks of major natural-gas exporters.