Namibia: Teenager (16) shot dead after joining pot-banging protests in crisis-hit Mozambique – Africa Links 24

The mourners at a cemetery in crisis-hit Mozambique’s capital, Maputo, were strikingly young – children shedding tears as they bade farewell to a 16-year-old friend.

Antonio Juaqim was shot dead while banging pots and pans in Maputo this week in an opposition-organised protest against the outcome of last month’s presidential election.

“Antonio was shot in the mouth, and the bullet went through the back of his head,” his uncle Manuel Samuel told the BBC.

“We saw CCTV…