The Burundian flag flies at the head of a convoy of buses moving refugees back home from Tanzania in 2019.
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Tanzania’s refugee policy in the 1990s is a good example of how geopolitics affects ordinary refugees.
Guerillas from the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) pictured in 1990.
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Policies that reduce poverty, inequality and socioeconomic insecurity lower the incentive to engage in or tolerate terrorism.
Displaced women and children shelter in temporary camps in Metuge, after fleeing from armed militants in Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique.
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Study shows that Mozambique 1992 peace agreement was never the success it was claimed to be. The country’s democracy remains weak.
Displaced people arrive in Pemba, Mozambique, after fleeing Palma following a brutal attack by Islamist insurgents in March.
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The Southern African Development Community does not have a remarkable record of military interventions in civil conflicts in the region.
Supporters of presidential candidate Filipe Nyusi’s Frelimo party on the last day of election campaigns in Maputo on October 12, 2019.
During the campaign, partisans of all political stripes were responsible for the violence. But Frelimo supporters were far more aggressive and violent.
Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi (L) and Renamo leader Ossufo Momade (R) after both signed an agreement to cease hostilities.
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The splintering in Renamo has its origins in the unexpected death last May of Afonso Dhlakama, its leader of 39 years.
The Cabo Delgado province in Mozambique, provides fertile ground for extremism.
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Speculation and conspiracy theories abound about the Mozambican insurgents leaving a trail of violence in resource rich Cabo Delgado.
The funeral of Renamo leader, Afonso Dhlakama.
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The death of Mozambican opposition leader Alfonso Dhlakama could affect the progress made to end hostilities in the country.
Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has agreed a truce with opposition Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama.
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The main sticking point in the failed efforts at peace is the demand by Renamo that it be allowed to appoint provincial governors in the provinces where it claims to have won an electoral majority.
Mozambique has recorded significant poverty reduction in recent years.
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Mozambique has made significant progress in its fight against poverty despite recent economic and political challenges
More than 10,000 people have fled the conflict in Mozambique to take refuge in Malawi.
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Mozambican civilians are again bearing the consequences of war between the government and opposition party Renamo. How has Renamo mobilised popular support for a new uprising?