The opposition leader in Mozambique, Afonso Dhlakama has died at the age of 65 from heart attack on Thursday.
Dhlakama who was expected to run for President in next year’s general elections was reported by state broadcaster TVM to have been found dead in the central town of Gorongosa.
Dhlakama once led the former rebel Mozambique National Resistance (Renamo) movement and fought the current ruling Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo) movement for many years in a civil war.
The war ended in 1992 with the signing of a peace accord giving combatants amnesty and allowing Renamo to become an opposition party.
The country’s President Filipe Nyusi has spoken after the death of Dhlakama saying it marked “a bad time” for Mozambique.
“To me is even worse because I was in a full alignment with him to solve the problems of this country,” Nyusi said on state TV.
Source: Africafeeds.com
