Mozambique: Frelimo Urges Renamo to Accept Nyusi's Invitation

Maputo — The head of the parliamentary group of Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party, Margarida Talapa, on Thursday urged the parliamentary deputies of the former rebel movement Renamo to persuade their party's leader, Afonso Dhlakama, to accept the invitation for face-to-face talks with President Filipe Nyusi.

Nyusi has repeatedly made it clear that he is willing to speak to Dhlakama, and issued a formal invitation to the Renamo leader in early August. Dhlakama flatly rejected that invitation, and later in the month unilaterally suspended the dialogue between Renamo and the government that had been under way since April 2013.

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