Afonso Marceta Macacho Dhlakama

Simango was himself Mayor of Beira for the Resistência Nacional Moçambicana until Renamo's leader Afonso Dhlakama sacked him in 2008 and he went on to found the MDM (AC Vol 52 No 17 Renamo threatens a return to violence)...

As tensions rise in Mozambique following rebel leader Afonso Dhlakama's abrogation on 21 October of the 1992 peace deal more questions are being asked about the government's opaque spending on security and the armed forces and its plans to protect the country's growing investment in offshore gas production...

Afonso Dhlakama and his Renamo fighters have no international support have falling electoral support and lack trained fighters and weapons...

This latest episode started when Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama and a group of rebel veterans symbolically disengaged from electoral politics to return to the bush at an old wartime head quarters near Gorongosa in April...

Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama wrote to Frelimo on 26 April complaining that his party ‘remains purely and simply excluded from the use of the riches that are the fruit of the peace which it helped to win and maintain during the past 20 years’...

In a chilling echo of history Afonso Dhlakama the leader of the biggest opposition party the Resistência Nacional Moçambicana has been threatening armed resistance against the government...

Renamo's leader Afonso Dhlakama has denied any involvement...

Renamo’s long-standing President Afonso Dhlakama in charge since 1979 and nearing the end of his political career is in poor health and says he will not stand again for party President...

Its well regarded presidential candidate Daviz Simango achieved a respectable 10% of the vote to 15% for Renamo's Afonso Dhlakama but has failed to make the breakthrough hoped for including the expectation that it could quickly eclipse Renamo...

Renamo has split with an open revolt against its veteran president Afonso Dhlakama...