Mozambique: Renewal in RENAMO leadership sustains stable growth outlook
- January 17, 2019
- - 6:14 pm
Ossufo Momade was on January 17 elected leader of the opposition Mozambique National Resistance (RENAMO) party at a leadership congress held at the party’s headquarters in the country’s central Gorongosa highlands. Momade’s election makes permanent the interim leadership role he has held since the natural death of long-time RENAMO leader Afonso Dhlakama in May 2018. Momade’s leadership election, during the final day of the three-day congress, in which he defeated second-place rival Elias Dhlakama (Afonso Dhlakama’s brother) by almost twice as many votes (410 to 238), affirms the role of constructive engagement he has presided over to elevate the political …
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