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7:41 CAT | 31 May 2022
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Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi said on Friday that all Renamo military bases should be closed by the end of the year.
“By the end of 2022, the four remaining Renamo bases can be closed,” the Mozambican head of state said.
Nyusi was speaking at the opening of the fifth session of the central committee of the ruling party Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo), of which he is president.
As part of the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) of the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) guerrilla group, 12 of the 16 bases that the armed wing of the main opposition party had been deactivated, Nyusi added.
The Frelimo leader said that 68 percent of the 5,000 Renamo guerrillas had been demobilised, “are in their homes” and in social reintegration.
Despite the success of the DDR, the government will continue the dialogue with Renamo in order to preserve peace.
“We maintain that peace, stability, unity and progress should be the supreme interest of all Mozambicans,” concluded Filipe Nyusi.
The DDR falls within the framework of the Peace and Reconciliation Agreement signed between the Frelimo government and Renamo in August 2019.
The understanding was the third between the two parties, always after cycles of armed violence, mainly in the centre of the country.
Source: Lusa
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