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The department of basic education has announced that the class of 2020 will sit for its final examinations later than usual. It continued the fight against the Mozambique central government even after the white minority regime in Rhodesia was replaced by Robert Mugabe who renamed the country Zimbabwe. Frelimo, the ruling party in Mozambique, and Renamo, the largest opposition force, differ in their views of the powers and duties attributed to provincial governors to be elected under of the upcoming new decentralisation law, yet to be approved by the …

“Gorongosa is no longer associated with violence,” he told the crowd.Nyusi is keen to sign a final peace treaty ahead of presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections in October. Renamo leader Ossufo Momade came second with 21.5 per cent.

However a small group of fighters have in recent weeks disavowed Momade, and said they would not hand over the weapons while he is in charge.Momade, who was due to travel with Nyusi in the presidential plane back to Maputo, said the party was now committed to making sure the elections are free, fair and transparent.“Peace is here to stay,” he told the crowd of over 1,000 people, including international peace brokers and experts, prominent politicians and officials and locals. Renamo and Nyusi’s ruling Frelimo party fought on opposing sides of a 16-year civil war before a ceasefire ended the bloodshed in 1992, however violence has flared up sporadically in the years since then.

By RFPosted on 01-08-2019Modified on 01-08-2019 at 23:14. The 160 militants of the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) were presented at … the third peace agreement since 2013, when Renamo took up arms against the government, … Frelimo will have 184 seats in the new parliament, Renamo 60, and the second opposition party, the Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM) … Renamo boycotted those elections and so, throughout the country, they were a two horse race between Frelimo and the Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM). FRELIMO was strongest in the cities and major towns of Mozambique during much of the civil war while RENAMO operated mainly in the countryside. Material may not be published or reproduced in any form without prior written permission.It’s been a year since Frelimo and Renamo signed the Maputo Accord. But Renamo did not lose the previous municipal elections, in 2013, because of fraud or bribery. Renamo considered on Tuesday the public presentation of 160 members of the main opposition party in Mozambique declaring their affiliation to Frelimo, the ruling party, as contrary to "political pluralism". Starting in the late 1970s, Renamo fought a brutal 16-year civil war against the Frelimo government that left one million people dead before the fighting stopped in 1992. A new peace agreement was signed on Thursday (August 1st) in Mozambique between the ruling party Frelimo and Renamo, the former rebellion that has become the main opposition force since the end of the 1992 civil war. 'The key event is 15th of October - the elections and the results of that'MAPUTO, Mozambique – Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi and the leader of the main opposition party Renamo on Thursday signed a permanent ceasefire agreement, designed to put an end to almost half a century of hostilities that killed over 1 million people at their peak.Renamo and Nyusi’s ruling Frelimo party fought on opposing sides of a 16-year civil war before a ceasefire ended the bloodshed in 1992, however violence has flared up sporadically in the years since then.Thursday’s agreement is one step in a process that will culminate in the signing of a broader agreement in the country’s capital Maputo next week, expected to occur amid much fanfare but whose effectiveness remains to be seen.In a marquee set up on a packed football field in Gorongosa, Renamo’s heartland in central Mozambique, the crowd cheered after Nyusi and Renamo leader Ossufo Momade, signed the agreement.