Renamo currently prioritising “emergency and contingency issues” in dialogue for peace – Mozambique

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Renamo currently prioritising “emergency and contingency issues” in dialogue for peace – Mozambique

12:00 CAT | 25 May 2018

File photo: Lusa

The Mozambican National Resistance is addressing pressing issues in the peace dialogue in Mozambique and will elect a new leader in due course, the national political commission announced.

“We are now addressing emergency and contingency issues,” Alfredo Magumisse, a member of Renamo’s national political commission, told a press conference in Maputo.

Among the pressing issues is the decentralisation of power agreed between President Filipe Nyusi and Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama, who died May 3 due from ill-health. “We were able to get the amendment to the constitution approved [by parliament]” to accommodate the agreement on Wednesday in general on Thursday in particular, he said.

Parallel negotiations are underway on the demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration of Renamo’s armed wing. In the meeting with the journalists, Magumisse confirmed that the head of state and the main opposition party have already resumed dialogue, as the president had already announced.

In response to questions about the election of a new leader, Magumisse said: “We are walking; we will arrive.” Ossufo Momade, head of the Renamo Department of Defence opposition party deputy, is the party’s interim coordinator, as announced two days after Dhlakama’s death.

“We found a statutory way within our party to appoint a coordinator, and the political commission is the executive body that is carrying out all the tasks,” Magumisse said.

Source: Lusa