(Here are a couple of news events not covered in the main media!)
Vigilante justice rocks once quiet Mozambique
Lynchings of suspected thieves – and riots over lack of police protection – have shaken the southern African donor darling.
By Stephanie Hanes | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Chimoio, Mozambique - The robbers struck again during the early morning hours of Feb. 23 – the latest in a string of violent home invasions in this normally calm city.

Within days, at least two suspected bandits had been lynched, the police station had been damaged, a child had been shot, and Chimoio was added to the list of Mozambican cities that have been rocked by riots in recent weeks.

In early February, more than 250 people were injured and at least four killed during riots in Mozambique's capital, Maputo, after the government upped the cost of the minibus taxis that many rely upon for transportation.
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In Tijuana, police battle drug cartels after targeting safe house
Rival drug cartels suspected in the latest confrontation in the Mexican border town.
The Washington Post
mexico City - Mexican soldiers and federal police fought a five-hour gun battle with suspected drug gang hitmen late Sunday and early Monday in a residential area of Tijuana. At least one of the heavily armed suspects was killed and two were injured, authorities said.

The confrontation was the latest in a series of street battles that have terrorized the border city, where rival drug cartels also turn their weapons on each other.

Monday's battle took place in Tijuana's La Mesa neighborhood, a troubled area where the police commander was killed in January, a spokesman for the Baja California public safety agency told reporters. Federal police and soldiers were conducting an operation to shut down a suspected cartel safe house. Local police, many of whom are suspected of helping cartels, did not take part.

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