Mozambique rivals hail 'new era' as they sign landmark peace deal

With a handshake and a hug, Mozambique's leaders hope to close the book on a decades-long conflict

Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi and RENAMO leader Ossufo Momade hug each other after signing a ceasefire agreement in Maputo, Mozambique, on August 6, 2019.

The pact, named the Maputo Peace and Reconciliation Agreement, brought the curtain down on marathon negotiations initiated by Afonso Dhlakama, the historic leader of the Mozambique National Resistance , who died in May last year."The process we have created is irreversible. We don't want to see war again," he said.

The deal comes just two months before general elections on October 15 that the ruling Frelimo Party, the dominant political force for more than four decades, is expected to win. Around one million people died, many of them in a famine in 1984-5, and the country was devastated economically and left littered with landmines.

But in October 2013, Renamo renounced the 1992 peace deal after the military raided its bush camp in central Sathundjira.On August 1, the two rivals signed a precursor accord in Gorongosa National Park under which they formally agreed to end military hostilities.A break with the past," said Manzoni.

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