Mozambique: Marcelino dos Santos and Mario Machungo Die

Marcelino dos Santos, one of the founders of Frelimo, died in Maputo on 11 February at the age of 90. He was born on 20 May 1929 in Lumbo, Mozambique Island, Nampula. He was a student in Lisbon from 1948 to 1951, and escaped the Portuguese political police, PIDE, to France where he worked with other exiled African nationalists.

Dos Santos became head of the foreign relations department of Udenamo (National Democratic Union of Mozambique), which in 1962 merged with Manu (Mozambique African National Union) and Unami (National African Union for the Independence of Mozambique) to form Frelimo, under the leadership of Eduardo Mondlane. When Mondlane was assassinated by the Portuguese in 1969, Samora Machel was elected President of Frelimo and dos Santos Deputy President.

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