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Mozambique: New Chief of Staff for Armed Forces
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Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)
21 March 2008
Posted to the web 21 March 2008
Maputo
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza has appointed Brig Paulo Macaringue as Chief of Staff of the Mozambican Armed Forces (FADM), to replace Gen Lagos Lidimo.
At the same time the Deputy Chief of Staff, Gen Mateus Ngonhama is replaced by Gen Olimpio Cambona. Both Lidimo and Ngonhamo leave active service and pass onto the reserve list at a ceremony in Maputo on Friday, chaired by President Armando Guebuza in his capacity as commnder-in-chief of the FADM.
Lidimo is a veteran of Mozambique's war for independence from Portuguese colonial rule. After independence, he was head of military intelligence. He has been chief of staff of the FADM, since it was founded in 1994 as a merger of volunteers from the old government army, the FAM/FPLN, and from the forces of the former rebel movement Renamo.
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Macaringue's appointment marks a generational shift. He is a military intellectual who received his training after the country's independence. He received a degree in history at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, and then attended a military academy in the Soviet Union. During the war of destabilisation he served as chief of staff of motorized infantry brigades stationed first at Boane, in the south of the country, and then in the central province of Manica.
Ngonhamo was head of Renamo military intelligence, and in military terms was second only to the movement's leader, Afonso Dhlakama. He has served the FADM loyally, and has rejected any attempt to politicize the armed forces.
Olimpio Cambona was head of the army, and was also once a Renamo commander.
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