Mozambique’s Venâncio Mondlane to Leave Podemos Party

Venâncio Mondlane, a former opposition presidential candidate and a key figure in months-long protests in Mozambique, said he is severing ties with the Podemos party.

The organization had supported his independent candidacy in the October presidential election. Mondlane and Podemos signed an agreement in August after the Constitutional Council barred him from running under the banner of another small party.