Renamo's leader, Ossufo Momade, accuses the Mozambican government of violating the agreement on the Demilitarization, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) of its former guerrillas, considering that the claim that there are no resources to pay the demobilized's pensions makes no sense.

"We are increasingly concerned about the alleged lack of funds and unsustainable pensions for our combatants," said Momade, quoted by VOA.

For the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, the DDR is one of the fundamental aspects of the peace process, stressing that "together with RENAMO, we are studying a sustainable way of instituting a pension for this group of Mozambicans so that our compatriots can integrate into society in a dignified and productive way without having to live far away from their families".

Criticism had also been leveled at Mirko Manzoni by the former secretary general of Renamo, André Magibiri, but the latter says that "efforts are being made to find out how to get the resources so that the demobilized can be integrated into the pension system".

For analyst Fernando Lima, this means that there are two fundamental problems: the lack of correct allocation of money," and when I say correct allocation I don't mean a lack of money, because as far as I know there is money, but it needs to be allocated correctly, within the State Budget and the Pension Fund."

He said that "as a result of this, and because Renamo has sufficient reason to be suspicious of the government's attitudes, it decided to make the clarity of the Pension Fund conditional on the demobilization of the last group of combatants".

Lima believes that the way out of this situation is for the government to inform Renamo that the resources have been allocated to the Pension Fund and that it can go ahead with awarding pensions to the group of more than 5,000 combatants, and in exchange for this, Renamo demobilizes the last group of guerrillas.

According to the analyst, Renamo is not going to demobilize the last group of combatants before the government clarifies the pensions issue, "because, from their point of view, they will lose pressure on the government".

Lima emphasized that the role of the United Nations Secretary-General's representative in Mozambique in all of this "is to verify that, in fact, the funds exist and that the government proceeds in an honest way to allocate these funds for pensions".