{Mozambique’s revived rebel movement Renamo has rejected a government invite for high level face-to-face talks to end destabilising military skirmishes.}<\/p>\n
The Frelimo party-led government had called on its civil war foe Afonso Dhlakama, the leader of Renamo, to travel to Maputo on November 8 to discuss his grievances personally with President Armando Guebuza.<\/p>\n
But just hours later Renamo rejected the invitation outright as “cynical”.<\/p>\n
Renamo spokesman Fernando Mazanga branded the offer “a political propaganda campaign without minimal respect for ethics”.<\/p>\n
Supporters of Dhlakama – a rebel leader in Mozambique’s brutal civil war – have been involved in a series of deadly attacks and are demanding a share of the country’s resource wealth.<\/p>\n
For many Mozambicans the crisis has uncomfortable echoes of a 16-year civil war between Renamo and the ruling Frelimo party that resulted in the deaths of around one million people.<\/p>\n
Amid nearly a year of simmering tensions and sporadic attacks on police and civilians, the Mozambique army raided Dhlakama’s bush camp on October 21.<\/p>\n
He has been in hiding since then, “trying to escape attack”, according to Mazanga.<\/p>\n
The factions signed a peace deal in 1992 and Renamo subsequently became the main opposition party, but has since seen its support erode.<\/p>\n
Guebuza said he wanted to hold talks “out of respect for the strong wishes of the Mozambican people”, his office said in a statement reported by the state news agency.<\/p>\n
Renamo accused the government of planning fresh assaults on the movement’s strongholds in central Mozambique.
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A face-to-face meeting between the two leaders is seen as the only way of ending the impasse after months of dialogue between Renamo and the government failed to yield results.<\/p>\n
Last week Guebuza told the AFP news agency in an interview that “the solution is dialogue. It is not a military solution”, a day after government forces attacked another Renamo camp.<\/p>\n
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