Mozambique: Renamo demands stronger condemnation of xenophobia – AIM report

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Mozambique: Renamo demands stronger condemnation of xenophobia – AIM report

1:17 CAT | 24 Sep 2019

Renamo candidate for governor of Maputo province, Antonio Muchanga. [File photo: O País ]

Mozambique’s main opposition party, Renamo, has demanded a more vigorous response from the government to the anti-foreigner riots in South Africa, which have so far led to the voluntary repatriation of 138 Mozambicans, while hundreds more have lost their homes.

Renamo also accuses the government of behaving apathetically in the cases of the death of two Mozambican police, members of the frontier guard, shot by South African soldiers in June in the Ponta de Ouro area, near the border with the South African province of Kwazulu-Natal. The South Africans were on Mozambican soil when they fired the fatal shots, and it is still not known why they crossed the border.

“Our brothers are dying and we don’t see any strong reaction from our government”, declared the Renamo candidate for governor of Maputo province, Antonio Muchanga, in Ponta de Ouro on Sunday. “Furthermore the deaths of the two frontier guards in Ponta de Ouro have been forgotten”.

He dismissed the government’s claim that the country is at peace, citing the low level insurrection by groups believed to be islamic fundamentalists in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.

“Our brothers are dying cruelly in Cabo Delgado, particularly in Macomia and Mocimboa da Praia districts”, said Muchanga. “They are living in a climate of fear. What peace is this that they sing so much about?”

He told the Ponta de Ouro rally that the country’s main problem is corruption, and claimed that only Renamo and its leader and presidential candidate, Ossufo Momade, offer any hope of changing the current scenario and ending the suffering of Mozambicans.

“We have to vote for Renamo and for Ossufo Momade, because our hands are clean, and we want to hold responsible the people involved in the case of the hidden debts, which the Constitutional Council has already declared unconstitutional”, declared Muchanga.

Source: AIM