Mozambican
President Filipe Nyusi and Renamo opposition leader Ossufo Momade on Thursday
signed a landmark agreement aimed at formally ending decades of hostilities,
state TV said.
The
signing took place at Renamo’s remote military base in the Gorongosa mountains
in central Mozambique, 27 years after the end of the country’s first civil war.The
two leaders hugged after penning the deal on a mounted stage in Gorongosa.Thursday’s
agreement brought an end to a long peace negotiation process initiated by
Renamo’s historic leader, Afonso Dhlakama, who died in May last year, and comes
just months before general elections in October. It also comes as Nyusi’s
administration is battling a jihadist insurgency in the northern parts of the
country which has claimed more than 250 lives since October 2017.Soon after
Mozambique gained its independence from Portugal in 1975, Renamo fought a
brutal 16-year civil war against the Frelimo government, a conflict that left
one million people dead before the fighting stopped in 1992.The rebel movement
then entered politics after a 1992 peace pact which was signed in Rome, paving
the way for multi-party elections in 1994.
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