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Killing of Mozambican lawyer raises risks of government instability and popular protests in major cities

10 March 2015

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Gilles Cistac, one of Mozambique's leading legal experts, was shot and killed in central Maputo on 3 March 2015.

Cistac had been living in Mozambique since 1993 and taken up Mozambican nationality. As associate director at the Faculty of Law at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Cistac in January endorsed plans by opposition party Mozambican National Resistance (Resistência Nacional Moçambicana: RENAMO) to create autonomous provinces, an issue upon which the ruling Mozambican Liberation Front (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique: FRELIMO) party is divided.

RENAMO leader Afonso Dhlakama at a rally on 6 March accused FRELIMO of committing the murder and has threatened to bypass parliamentary debate and to start 'ruling' the autonomous provinces he claims for RENAMO without legal provisions.



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