Mozambique | DDR: More than 90% of former Renamo guerrillas are now receiving their pensions – President Nyusi

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Mozambique | DDR: More than 90% of former Renamo guerrillas are now receiving their pensions – President Nyusi

12:14 CAT | 15 Oct 2024

FILE - For illustration purposes only. [File photo: Lusa]

A total of 3,816 of the 5,221 former Renamo guerrillas demilitarised under the Maputo Peace Accords are now receiving their pensions, the Mozambican president has announced.

In total, the Administrative Tribunal is in possession of the files of 3,936 guerrillas, corresponding to 94.1% of the total, of which at least 3,816 (91.3%) are validated and are now receiving their pensions, Filipe Nyusi said in a note published on his Facebook page.

“Efforts are continuing to identify other potential beneficiaries of the [DDR] process, since the number initially predicted is 5,221 individuals,” the note states.

According to the Presidency, at least 4,181 cases are already pending with the National Institute of Social Security (INSS).

The Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) process, which began in 2018 as part of the peace agreement between the parties, covering 5,221 former Renamo guerrillas, 257 of whom are women, ended in June 2023 with the closure of the Vunduzi base, the last Renamo base, located in the district of Gorongosa, in the central province of Sofala.

The 1992 General Peace Agreement ended a 16-year war between the government army and the Renamo guerrillas. It was signed in Rome between the then president, Joaquim Chissano, and Afonso Dhlakama, the historic leader of Renamo, who died in May, 2018.

In 2013, further confrontations between the parties flared up, lasting 17 months and only ending with the signing, on September 5, 2014, of the Agreement on the Cessation of Military Hostilities, between Dhlakama and the then head of state, Armando Guebuza.

Finally, on August 1, 2019, the Agreement on the Definitive Cessation of Military Hostilities was signed in Gorongosa between the government and the leader of Renamo, Ossufo Momade, after years of talks with the historic Renamo leader and founder Afonso Dhlakama (1953-2018).

Shortly afterwards, on August 6, 2019, in Maputo, the Peace and National Reconciliation Agreement, which is now being materialised, was signed between the current Mozambican head of state and the president of Renamo.

Source: Lusa