Renamo official is the new director of communications for the Mozambican Armed Forces

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Renamo official is the new director of communications for the Mozambican Armed Forces

4:07 CAT | 05 Jun 2020

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The Minister of National Defence of Mozambique, Jaime Neto, yesterday swore in Aníbal Rafael Chefe, a Renamo guerrilla officer, as director of the Department of Communications in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Defence of Mozambique (FADM)

Jaime Neto said the investiture was part of the process of the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) of former guerrillas of the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), the main opposition party.

DDR is one of the pillars of the agreements between the Mozambican government and Renamo for the establishment of a lasting peace in the country.

Speaking to journalists after being sworn in, Chefe, who holds the rank of commodore, said that he would command and control the flow of communications in the armed forces.

“The most important thing is the task entrusted to me in the Directorate of the Communications Department,” he said.

Chefe’s investiture was the first public DDR public ceremony to take place since the signing of the National Peace and Reconciliation Agreement on August 6, 2019 by the Mozambican president, Filipe Nyusi, and the leader of Renamo, Ossufo Momade.

Since then, no guerrillas have surrendered their weapons, with the exception of the 10 Renamo officers appointed to the Mozambican Police General Command, who completed their training in November last year.

In an interview with Lusa in March, Ossufo Momade said that disarmament would cover 5,000 Renamo guerrillas and would start soon, but that the Covid-19 pandemic had in the meantime led to the establishment of a state of emergency in Mozambique.

Public activities and crowds are suspended for the duration of the restrictions.

Source: Lusa