Mozambique Backs Constitution Changes That May Boost Peace Deal
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Mozambican lawmakers approved constitutional changes that give political parties more power in the provinces, a step that may support a peace deal cast into doubt by the death of the main opposition leader.
President Filipe Nyusi signed an open-ended truce in 2016 with the Mozambican National Resistance, or Renamo, whose leader, Afonso Dhlakama, died on May 3. Renamo’s armed wing fought the government in a 16-year civil war that claimed as many as 1 million lives and ended in 1992. Fighting flared gain in 2013 and continued until 2016.