Mozambique: Renamo threatens to place checkpoints on national roads

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Mozambique: Renamo threatens to place checkpoints on national roads

5:12 CAT | 09 Feb 2016

RFI / Renamo headquarters in Maputo

In the aftermath of the kidnapping and murder of Renamo political staff in central Mozambique, Renamo, Mozambique’s largest opposition party, is threatening to establish checkpoints along the EN1 and EN6 in protest, Radio France International reports.

According the head of mobilization in Beira, Horacio Calavete, “These controls will be used to monitor cars travelling from the south to the centre and from the centre to the south, but only cars that are suspicious because people who spend their lives abducting others travel by car, and it is necessary to control this.”

This decision would have to have been taken at a meeting of Renamo generals in Gorongosa, former headquarters of the rebel movement.

The police meanwhile are accusing the main opposition party of obstructing its investigation into the attempted murder of its secretary general Manuel Bissopo in Maputo several weeks ago.

Source: RFI