Mozambique: Nyusi says last Renamo base will be closed in June – Watch

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Mozambique: Nyusi says last Renamo base will be closed in June – Watch

6:19 CAT | 23 May 2023

Photo: TVM

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi said yesterday that the last base of the armed wing of Renamo, the country’s main opposition party, should be closed by June, with the legal procedure for paying pensions to former guerrillas of the movement currently taking place.

Nyusi was speaking in Geneva at a press conference summing up his working visit to Switzerland at the invitation of his Swiss counterpart, Alain Berset.

The government and the leadership of the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) are working towards the deactivation of the Gorongosa base “within the next month or even half a month”, the Mozambican head of state advanced.

The two parties are preparing the process of paying pensions to former guerrillas of the main opposition party, an operation that will be overseen by the Administrative Court, Nyusi underlined.

Last week, Renamo spokesman José Manteigas said that the organisation had only backed down on its previously established condition that its general headquarters be deactivated only after pension payments to former guerrillas started,after having received guarantees that funds are available.

Manteigas was speaking after the Mozambican head of state and the leader of Renamo, Ossufo Momade, announced, after a meeting on the 16th, “that conditions have been created for the conclusion of the process of Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR)”, under the Peace and National Reconciliation Agreement, signed on August 6, 2019.

Within the scope of this agreement, of the total of 5,221 fighting elements to be covered, around 4,700 (90%) have already handed over their weapons, and some had been incorporated into the Mozambican Defence and Security Forces.

Watch the TVM report.