The UN Secretary-General's envoy to Mozambique told Lusa yesterday that the government has the money to pay pensions to Renamo guerrillas and that the demobilization process will be completed "in the next few months". "I think the demobilization process will be completed in the next few months. It's clear that what was...
Despite the boycott by the Renamo and MDM parties, who were demonstrating with placards reading "Tirano, out" and "Down with dictatorship", Frelimo approved the Electoral Law, which reduces the deadline for setting the election date from 18 to 15 months. Today we are faced with a proposal from a...
The leader of the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo, opposition) said yesterday that the current President cannot run for a third term, stressing that the Constitution forbids this ambition and that the Mozambican people want political alternation. "What [Filipe] Nyusi wants I can't be a witness to, what I have to defend is the Constitution...
It was already foreseeable and the scenario pointed that way. There will be no district elections in 2024. The Frelimo Party decided not to go ahead with the elections, thus violating an agreement signed with Renamo which at the time, among several points, called for district elections. The Center for Public Integrity (CIP) writes quoting a...
Renamo, Mozambique's main opposition party, today accused the ruling Frelimo party of "making it impossible" to hold the first district elections in the country and calling into question the "spirit of national reconciliation and peace". "The Frelimo party does not want the district elections to take place," emphasized Venâncio Mondlane, a member of parliament and rapporteur for the...
Renamo, the main opposition party in Mozambique, has asked the international community to help overcome the disagreement with the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, over the holding of the first district elections in 2024. Politicians and academics say that Renamo's concern about this issue is understandable, but there is room for...
Renamo, in opposition in Mozambique, says it has submitted a draft law to Parliament to regulate the district elections scheduled for 2023, but it doesn't know if it will be discussed during the seventh parliamentary session, which starts on the 22nd, because Frelimo, in the Standing Committee of the Assembly of the Republic, has made it impossible to schedule it....
The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, considered today that a future pension program for former guerrillas of the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), the main opposition party, is "the bill" that the country must pay for a "sustainable peace". "The bill for peace must be sustained, we have been working to mobilize more...
Renamo, the largest opposition party, yesterday called the closure of the party's last base under the peace agreements "an unknown". "This is beginning to be an unknown: they are murdering our demobilized members," said José Manteigas, the party's spokesman, during a press conference in Maputo, at which he denounced the alleged murder of a...
The Mozambican National Resistance party (Renamo) today in Maputo demanded coordinated action between the governments of Mozambique and South Africa to stop the attacks on Mozambican citizens' vehicles in that country. The head of the Foreign Relations Department of the largest opposition party, Manuel Massungue, called the acts of...