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Mozambique: Renamo officer threatens to attack Renamo leader’s home – AIM |Watch

6:06 CAT | 21 Apr 2025

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A senior officer in Mozambique’s former rebel movement Renamo has threatened to attack the home of Renamo leader Ossufo Momade if he does not resign voluntarily as the party’s president.

According to a report on the independent television station STV, Fernando Mafenhure, who claims that he held the rank of brigadier in the Renamo militia, made this threat in Gondola, in the central province of Manica, after he had ordered his followers to burn all Renamo propaganda material bearing the portrait of Momade.

Mafenhure lead a group of demobilised former Renamo guerrillas to the Renamo district headquarters in Gondola, where they burnt every leaflet or poster that showed Momade’s face.

“Our work hasn’t finished yet”, declared Mafenhure. “Our main goal, as demobilised fighters, is to remove Ossufo Momade himself, since we no longer need him”.

He warned “it is our responsibility to go directly where he is, and we shall attack his home”.

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The Renamo Youth League has joined the protests against Momade’s leadership. A Youth League representative, cited by STV, said “We want this party and we can’t abandon it. We are here representing the party, but without Ossufo Momade. As the Youth League, we are tired of him”.

This is the latest in a string of protests against Momade, which have closed Renamo offices across central Mozambique. Momade, who is believed to be outside the country, has not responded to the attacks.

Meanwhile, a former general secretary of Renamo, Andre Magibire, has claimed that 251 of the demobilised guerrillas have gone missing.

Speaking on Thursday at a press conference in Beira, Magibire, who now heads the Renamo delegation on the Commission on Military Matters between the government and Renamo, said the 251 had been demobilised under the DDR (Demobilisation, Disarmament and Reintegration) Programme. But their current whereabouts are unknown, and Renamo is no longer in contact with them.

Magibire said their disappearance was making it impossible to conclude the procedures for fixing and paying pensions to the former guerrillas.

He said that, of the 5,221 former guerrillas covered by the DDR, more than 4,500 have received their pensions and the paperwork for the others is being processed. Efforts were being made by the Renamo department of social matters, in coordination with the Renamo provincial and district offices, to contact those who had gone missing.

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Magibire criticsed those who had closed down Renamo offices. “I don’t think delegations should be shut just because members don’t like the President. That’s not the way forward”, he said.

He called for an “internal dialogue” within Renamo. “If we can call a meeting where each member says what concerns him, I think things will change”, said Magibire. “President Ossufo Momade himself will speak about the matters he is accused of”.

Source: AIM