Maputo — Members of the riot police on Friday surrounded the house in Beira of Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Mozambique's former rebel movement, Renamo, in a tense stand-off eventually solved by the intervention of the Sofala provincial governor, Helena Taipo.
The previous day Dhlakama had left his bush hideout in Gorongosa district. Accompanied by several of the mediators in the stalled dialogue between the government and Renamo, and by a large number of journalists, Dhlakama arrived in Beira on Thursday evening. He was expected to spend a few days in Beira before flying to Maputo for a long awaited face-to-face meeting with President Filipe Nyusi.
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