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Noticias (File photo) / Liberation Struggle veteran, General Lagos Lidimo
Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Monday relieved Gregorio Leao of his duties as general director of the State Intelligence and Security Service (SISE), replacing him with retired general Lagos Lidimo.
Leao had been at the head of SISE since May 2005.
Lidimo has a long career in the armed forces. He was a distinguished guerrilla commander during the war for independence from Portugal (1964-1974) waged by the Mozambique Liberation Front (FPLM).
After independence, during the wars waged against Mozambique by the Ian Smith regime in what was then Rhodesia, and by the South African apartheid regime, Lidimo was head of military intelligence of the Mozambican armed forces (FAM-FPLM).
In 1994, when volunteers from the FAM-FPLM and from the former rebel movement Renamo were merged to form a unified Mozambican Defence Force, the FADM, the then President, Joaquim Chissano, appointed Lidimo as FADM Chief of Staff. He held this position until 2008. Since then, he has been in retirement.
Nyusi also appointed a deputy general director for SISE. He is Sergio Nathu Caba, who was formerly an assistant lecturer at the history department in Maputo’s Eduardo Mondlane University, and is the author of a book on “The War in Zambezia Province and the role of Malawi 1975-1988”.
As is usually the case with Presidential dispatches, no reasons were given for these changes.
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