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Mozambique: President Nyusi announces construction of peace memorial in Gorongosa Mountains
1:31 CAT | 07 Aug 2024
Photo: Lusa
The President of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, announced in parliament today the reaching of an agreement with Renamo to build a National Peace Memorial in the Gorongosa Mountains, the place where the end of hostilities was agreed in 2019.
“We exchanged this vision with the leadership of Renamo. The memorial will pay tribute to the protagonists of the peace processes in Mozambique and make Gorongosa a national and international reference in the construction of peace, tolerance and reconciliation,” the head of state said during his annual assessment of the state of the nation in the Assembly of the Republic.
On August 1, 2019, the Agreement on the Definitive Cessation of Military Hostilities was signed in Gorongosa between the government and the leader of the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), Ossufo Momade, after years of talks in that mountain range in central Mozambique with the Renamo historic leader and founder Afonso Dhlakama (1953-2018).
On August 6, 2019, in Maputo, the Peace and National Reconciliation Agreement was signed, the third and now being materialized, between the current Mozambican head of state and the president of Renamo.
The past few days therefore marked the five-year anniversary of the signing of these last two agreements, which are still in force and led to the demilitarization of Renamo.
“However, a birthday does not only call for joy. This joy must be materialized in something concrete. This birthday party deserves a gift,” the president said.
“We want Gorongosa to stop being associated with war, and instead serve as a source of inspiration for current and future generations in peaceful coexistence between people, but also between people and nature. May Gorongosa become a living testimony of how a nation can overcome its deepest divisions and build a future of harmony between people, as well as between humanity and nature,” Nyusi concluded.
Before these two agreements, the 1992 General Peace Agreement, putting an end to a 16-year war between the government army and the Renamo guerrillas, 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 followed, lasting 17 months and only ending with the signing, on 5 September 2014, of the Agreement on the Cessation of Military Hostilities, between Dhlakama and the former head of state, Armando Guebuza.
Today, the President of Mozambique presented for the last time his last annual report on the General Situation of the Nation in the Assembly of the Republic
The annual report by the head of state, who will not stand for re-election in the elections on 9 October because he has reached the constitutional limit of two terms, took place in a formal plenary session in parliament in Maputo, but was brought forward from the usual date of December due to the holding of the elections.
The president’s annual intervention in parliament on December 20, 2023, was marked by protests by the Renamo bench, whose deputies contested the results of the October local elections, which gave victory to the Frelimo, the ruling party.
The elections on 9 October include those for the president and national legislature, as well as for provincial governors and assemblies.
Source: Lusa
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