Sharjah24 - AFP: Protesters throw stones and burn tyres in Maputo, Mozambique's capital, after the country's ruling party was declared to have won disputed presidential and parliamentary elections by a landslide.
Police blocked their path into the centre of Maputo and fired tear gas along a main avenue where protesters had burned tyres and ripped up election posters, reporters said.
Other protesters sought to block the road leading from the capital to the South African border.
Police said that clashes with protesters had left several injured across the country and reported one death in Nampula in the north.
Mondlane, 50, issued a call for protests on Facebook late Wednesday, encouraging a "great national demonstration" against Frelimo's half-century in power.
"The time has come for the people to take power and say that we now want to change the history of this country," he said.
Mondlane has drawn a large following from among the youth of the impoverished country of 33 million people, thundering past the former opposition leader, Renamo's Ossufo Momade, who took just six percent of the presidential vote.
The 47-year-old winner Chapo will officially take charge of the southern African country in January, becoming Mozambique's first president born after independence from Portugal in 1975 when Frelimo first took power.
A former provincial governor with no experience in national government, he will be the first president not to have fought in the 1975-1992 civil war between Frelimo and Renamo, which claimed around a million lives.
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