location: Palmeira
notes: Residents of the town Palmeiras, 70km from Maputo, demonstrated against the alleged complicity of the police with criminals in the town on 22 January. They threw up barricades of burning tyres on the main north-south highway. The local police called for reinforcements from Maputo, and in the ensuing clashes one protester was shot dead.
target_text: location: Palmeira, fatalities: 1