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Mozambique

Afonso Marceta Macacho Dhlakama

Date of Birth: 01/01/1953


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A new landscape unfolds

Firstly there is the fallout from the 19 November municipal elections: the opposition Resistência Nacional de Moçambique (Renamo) condemned them as fraudulent and its leader Afonso Dhlakama has threatened to lead a civil disobedience campaign in protest...


Guebuza's day

The last elections in 1999 like those of 1994 were close; in the presidential race the generally popular and moderate Chissano got 52 per cent against 48 per cent for Renamo boss Afonso Dhlakama...


A very old connection

Portugal will work with whoever is elected president and equally Guebuza has to work with Portugal - which sees him as a stronger presidential candidate than Afonso Dhlakama leader of the ex-guerrilla opposition Resistência Nacional Moçambicana (Renamo)...


A very private war

Among those working for Erinys in Iraq are: South African Vance Myers formerly linked to Israel's Mossad organisation and the late Jonas Savimbi's rebels in Angola; Australian Gary Wright ex-Rhodesian Special Forces and linked to former rebel Mozambican leader Afonso Dhlakama...


Urban guerrillas

But in its Beira stronghold as elsewhere Renamo shrugged off these threats and leader Afonso Dhlakama is ever determined to keep control...


Guebuza blues

Expelled from Renamo in late 2000 when president Afonso Dhlakama felt threatened Domingos now heads a group of five former Renamo parliamentarians as well as an influential thinktank the Instituto Democrático para a Paz e o Desenvolvimento (IPADE)...


A flood of mud

However party President Afonso Dhlakama maintains his obsessive control of Renamo weakening it by marginalising or dismissing competent people who might become rivals...


Seconds out

In the 1999 presidential poll Chissano beat Renamo's Afonso Dhlakama by a whisker...


Murder again

He has been President since 1986 and almost lost in 1999 to Afonso Dhlakama of the Resistência Nacional Moçambicana (Renamo AC Vol 42 No 8)...


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