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Mozambique: Disarmament, reintegration of ex-fighters at a standstill – Renamo
10:36 CAT | 01 Mar 2022
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Renamo, the main opposition party, on Monday considered the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) of its guerrillas to be at a standstill, accusing the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, of slowing the process.
“DDR does not tie and untie,” said the head of the Renamo parliamentary bench, Viana Magalhaes, at the opening of the fifth ordinary session of parliament.
Magalhães said that the government was not complying with the clause of the Peace and National Reconciliation Agreement that provides for the placement of Renamo guerrilla officers in senior positions in the Mozambican Defence and Security Forces.
The head of the Renamo parliamentary bench accused the current President of following the path of his predecessors of violating the spirit and the letter of the successive peace agreements signed in the country.
He also said there was a strategy of fragmentation of the main opposition party, considering strange the news of the nomination of a successor to Mariano Nhongo, leader of the Renamo Military Junta, a guerrilla dissidence of the main opposition party, killed last year by government forces in combat.
In December, Filipe Nyusi, said in parliament that the government is committed to “full compliance” with the Peace and National Reconciliation Agreement signed with Renamo in August 2019.
The demobilisation process of ex-guerrillas has already covered 3,270 members, mainly in the centre of the country, the main stage of conflict – the DDR process is expected to end this year and reach a total of 5,000 ex-guerrillas.
The head of operations in the Ministry of Defence, Chongo Vidigal, announced at the weekend that the Renamo military junta had chosen Augusto Faindane Phyri, a lieutenant-general known by the nickname ‘Massiaphfumbi’ (which in Ndau means ‘l
Source: Lusa
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