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Mozambique's main opposition to resume dialogue with gov't

Xinhua, October 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

The leader of Mozambique's main opposition, the former rebel movement Renamo, Afonso Dhlakama, has confirmed the resumption of dialogue in Maputo soon between his party and the Frelimo-led government, local radio reported Monday.

The Radio Mozambique reported that, speaking in the central province of Sofala, Dhlakama said he ordered his delegation to return to the dialogue to discuss the country's political crisis.

The Renamo delegation abandoned the dialogue in August on the orders of Dhlakama, who claimed that the Frelimo government was refusing to satisfy his demands.

The demands included power sharing in the army and the police forces, if the government wanted to see Renamo disarming his men and integrate them into the two forces.

The Renamo delegation is led by its parliamentary, Saimone Macuiana, while the government side by the Agriculture Minister, Jose Pacheco.

President Filipe Nyusi also confirmed on Sunday that the dialogue would resume soon. He said this time, the talks will include other political parties, the civil society, the religious groups, among others.

Apart from the dialogue at Joaquim Chissano International Conference Center in Maputo, contacts are being made so that face to face talks between Nyusi and Dhlakama are held to speed the resolution of the country's political crisis.

The head of state has indicated that he was open to receive the Renamo leader. Nyusi has sent an invitation to Dhlakama for the purpose.

The dialogue between the two sides started in 2013. One of the main achievements at the dialogue was the scrapping of an old electoral law and the setting up of a new one which operated during last October's general elections, which was won by the ruling Frelimo party and Nyusi.

Renamo's decision to return to the dialogue happens at the time Mozambique marked the 23rd anniversary of the signing of the peace agreement in the Italian capital, Rome, in 1992, between Renamo and the Frelimo government, to end the 16-year civil war in the former Portuguese colony.

The conflict killed more than a million people and displaced thousands of people in the country. Endit