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A military armored vehicle blocks the road as protesters try to make their way to the Ressano Garcia border post between Mozambique and South Africa on November 13, 2024.

“[The protest] is about the condition of our lives, it’s not only [about] electoral fraud,” freelance writer and journalist Eduardo Quive tells OkayAfrica.

Photo by Alfredo Zuniga/AFP via Getty Images.

Despite Protest Ban, Mozambicans Continue to Demand Systemic Change

Police and state security respond to civil demonstrations with force, while the government describes them as acts of terrorism.