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Renamo denies recruiting young people for military training – Mozambique
8:39 CAT | 20 Jan 2016
In file Club of Mozambique / Renamo's spokesperson António Muchanga.
Renamo spokesperson António Muchanga yesterday denied that his movement is recruiting young people for military training in the centre and north of the country.
Muchanga denied that Renamo, in parallel with the military conscription census being conducted by the government, was itself drafting young people of service age for military training in Sofala province.
“This is not true. It’s a lie. Renamo is not recruiting anyone, and does not need to. What is happening is that Renamo is currently, in different parts of the country, receiving its former guerrillas who were outside their bases for integration as well as deserters of the Armed Forces for the Defence of Mozambique (FADM),” Muchanga said.
Interior Minister Jaime Basilio Monteiro told Radio Mozambique last week in Tete that the government is aware of the rumour and is examining its veracity so as to react only to the actual situation on the ground.
Meanwhile, the minister welcomed the actions of Renamo combatants who have left the bush in recent days and surrendered to the government for re-integration. The latest group was a contingent of a hundred last week in Sofala.
Basilio Monteiro said that the Renamo men who are leaving the bush are in fact taking on Mozambican citizenship. “It represents assuming constructive consciousness and citizenship. It is good that more instances like this should happen, because these people are becoming aware that it is now reasonable to take up a quieter life and help to build the country,” the minister said at the end of his three-day visit to Tete province.
Source: Jornal Notícias.
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