The signing takes place in the Gorongosa National Park in central Mozambique, nearly 27 years after the end of the country's first civil war.
MAPUTO, Mozambique – Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi and Renamo opposition leader Ossufo Momade on Thursday, August 1, signed a landmark agreement aimed at formally ending decades of hostilities, state TV said., nearly 27 years after the end of the country's first civil war.
Thursday's agreement brought an end to a long peace negotiation process initiated by Renamo's historic leader, Afonso Dhlakama, who died in May last year, and comes just months before general elections in October. Nyusi said"this agreement opens a new era in the history of our country in which no Mozambican should use weapons to resolve conflicts."Soon after Mozambique gained its independence from Portugal in 1975, Renamo fought a brutal 16-year civil war against the Frelimo government, a conflict that left one million people dead before the fighting stopped in 1992.
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