CPLP “worries” about Mozambique, holds Renamo responsible for instability

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CPLP “worries” about Mozambique, holds Renamo responsible for instability

10:09 CAT | 26 Jan 2016

In file Club of Mozambique / Mozambican ambassador Murade Murargy, the executive secretary of the Portuguese Language Countries Community CPLP.

The new politico-military crisis in Mozambique is an issue that “worries” the executive secretary of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), Murade Murargy, who blames the opposition for the instability in the country, he told Lusa on Monday.

Murargy, however also expressed hope that the Mozambican government, led by the Liberation Front of Mozambique (Frelimo), and the opposition, led by the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), could sit down at a table together in the search for a peaceful solution.

“It is a situation that worries me, but I am confident that the Mozambican government and the opposition itself will find a way to get along. It could take time, but I believe it,” Murargy said on the sidelines of the opening session of a Focus on Child Labour seminar, which will last until Wednesday.

“Whenever elections happen, you often have immediately afterwards a period of instability. It is certain that this period has lasted for almost a year. [The presidential elections took place in October 2014 and the president’s inauguration in January 2015.] We are still within a period where Renamo disputes the results,” he said.

To Murargy, who will officially visit Mozambique in March as executive secretary of the CPLP, the first to his home country in this capacity, the post-election instability occurs even though the Renamo was present at the monitoring of the elections.

“They never accepted the election results. We are in this challenging period. Unfortunately, this time it resulted in some military actions, which I hope will not end up in a more serious confrontation. Let’s wait and see.”

The latest episode in the “divergences” between the government and the opposition took place last Wednesday, when the secretary-general of Renamo, Manuel Bissopo, was shot in Beira in central Mozambique. He has since been transferred to a South African hospital.

According to local journalists interviewed by Lusa, the gunmen, who were transported in two vehicles, blocked the car where Bissopo followed and opened fire.

The bodyguard of the Secretary-General died on the spot, while others in a following vehicle suffered minor injuries.

Police have not as yet identified the gunmen nor the vehicles used in the crime.

Source: Lusa