MAPUTO: Mozambique's government and the ex-rebel group Renamo completed a long-awaited peace pact on Tuesday , inking a final deal aimed at ending years of conflict.
The deal comes just two months before general elections on Oct 15 that the ruling Frelimo party, the dominant political force for more than four decades, is expected to win. Around 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 Aug 1, the two rivals signed a precursor accord in Gorongosa National Park under which they formally agreed to end military hostilities. "This agreement, the result of a long negotiation process, represents fundamental progress in building peace," the foreign ministry said in Lisbon.Some of the demobilised fighters will be absorbed into Mozambique's army and police, while others will be reintegrated into civilian life.But the party is suffering internal divisions.
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