Mozambique: Frelimo Deputies Demand That Renamo Disarm

Maputo — Parliamentary deputies of Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party on Thursday demanded that the main opposition force, the former rebel movement Renamo, must disarm and demobilise its illegal militia - and before the general elections scheduled for 15 October.

An agreement in principle on demobilising the Renamo militia and on giving its members jobs in the armed forces or police, or returning them to civilian life, was reached between President Filipe Nyusi and the late Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama, and reaffirmed in a memorandum of understanding signed last year by Nyusi and Dhlakama's successor, Ossufo Momade.

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