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A giant campaign billboard of Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO) hangs from a building in Avenida Edoardo Modlande on the eve of Mozambican Presidential and Legislative elecions on October 14, 2014  in Maputo.AFP
A giant campaign billboard of Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO) hangs from a building in Avenida Edoardo Modlande on the eve of Mozambican Presidential and Legislative elecions on October 14, 2014 in Maputo.AFP

Voting started Wednesday in a tough electoral test for Mozambique’s ruling Frelimo, the party that has run the resource-rich country since independence in 1975.

Voters in neat lines started casting ballots shortly after 7:00am (0500 GMT) with Frelimo facing growing discontent amid an apparent popular swing towards the opposition.

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