Analysis in recruitment

About 1,400 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Mozambique Defense (FADM) defected from the army ranks, due to undisclosed reasons, according to figures released Monday by the Ministry of Combatants, without revealing the exact time of occurrence.The data was released by the Minister of this portfolio, Eusebius Lambo, a meeting between senior officials of his ministry with the President, Filipe Nyusi in a report for the balance of the activities of the past year.The figures show that the province of Tete, one of the battlefields in the current wave of political and military tension, is the province with more defections.In this province the center of the country was detected the existence of "two battalions with a total workforce of 1170 former military regarded as deserters," said the Minister of Combatants.Another large group, composed of "220 former soldiers" fled the barracks in Sofala province and are refugees in neighboring Malawi, according to data revealed in the Ministry's report directed by Eusebius Lambo.

No information about the real causes of this rout in the ranks of the national army.

This is the first time in recent history of the country, where the authorities hereby announces defections numbers within the FADM, confirming information that came to public data that the level of some opinion circles, had been advanced from the beginning the political and military tension, for about three years.Although there are no studies or official information on the causes of this rout, easily can associate the recurring military clashes between the Defense and Security Forces (FDS) and armed Renamo men, confined in the center of the country, especially the provinces Sofala, Manica and Tete precisely the places where the information released yesterday confirm through numbers. (In newspaper O País)