Middle East & Africa | The wages of truth

Mozambique’s ruling party wins a dodgy election

Two opposition figures were murdered days before the result was announced

An image is held of Paulo Guambe and advisor and lawyer Elvino Dias during a vigil after their murder in Maputo, Mozambique
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He feared he was a marked man. In April Elvino Dias wrote on Facebook that death squads were plotting to kill him. But as a lawyer for an opposition leader, in an election year, he felt it was his duty to speak out. “In a country as upside down as ours, truth and justice have their price,” he wrote, “and the biggest price is the death of the one who says it.”

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