Maputo — Mozambican Defence Minister, Atanasio M'tumuke, said on Thursday that the agreement reached between Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi, and the leader of the former rebel movement Renamo, Afonso Dhlakama, shortly before the latter's death in May, envisaged the appointment of three officers from Renamo to senior positions in the general staff of the armed forces (FADM), and not 14 as Renamo had claimed the previous day.
M'tumuke was speaking after swearing into office several military officials including the three Renamo figures. They are Brigadier Xavier Antonio as Director of the Department of Operations in the General Staff, Commodore Inacio Luis Vaz as Director of the Department of Military Information , and Brigadier Araujo Andeiro Maciacona as Director of the Department of Communications.
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