What are the key issues in Mozambique elections?

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Frelimo party members lead their supporters during an election campaign in Mocuba, Mozambique on August 27, 2024. PHOTO X via Frelimo (@FRELIMO_)

Mozambicans will vote next week in presidential and legislative elections that are almost certain to extend the ruling Frelimo party’s half century in power, as it battles a long-running Islamist insurgency in one of Africa’s largest gas fields.

Ruling party candidate Daniel Chapo, a former radio announcer and law lecturer, is widely expected to replace Filipe Nyusi as president of the southeast African nation.