Afonso Marceta Macacho Dhlakama

Restless RenamoRenamo is also deeply divided and a leadership challenge to Ossufo Momade who has led the party since the death of its iconic leader Afonso Dhlakama in May 2018 is likely...

He does not keep the same tight grip over party finances of his late predecessor Afonso Dhlakama and has angered the guerrilla wing of Renamo which believes Momade has sold them out so the political wing can live in luxury we hear...

Renamo gainsDespite divisions within Renamo and a general view that its leader Ossufo Momade has none of the popular appeal of his veteran late predecessor Afonso Dhlakama Renamo made important electoral gains in the 2018 elections...

Mondlane rejoined Renamo after its leader Afonso Dhlakama died in June (AC Vol 59 No 10 Peace in peril as Dhlakama dies)...

The opposition Resistencia Nacional Moçambicana (Renamo) is going through a difficult rebalancing act in the wake of the death of its leader Afonso Dhlakama on 3 May...

The death of Afonso Dhlakama the commander of Resistencia Nacional Moçambicana (Renamo) who turned the guerrilla movement into a political party contains risks to long-delayed reconciliation with the ruling party Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo)...

Twelve days after the death Nyusi and opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama agreed a ceasefire halting the violent conflict between the guerrilla fighters of the opposition Resistência Nacional Moçambicana and state forces loyal to Frelimo (AC Vol 55 No 15 Frelimo and Renamo strike peace deal)...

Officially dialogue is the strategy and Nyusi has repeated his invitation to the Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama to return to the negotiating table...

Nyusi's publicly stated policy is to engage in peaceful negotiations with Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama...

Nyusi pledged to deliver 'development and harmony' but faces constant hindrance not only from the erratic aggressive leader of the Resistência Nacional Moçambicana (Renamo) Afonso Dhlakama but from within his own governing party...