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Within a few years of its independence — achieved in June 1975 as a result of 11 years of armed struggle lead by the Mozambican Liberation Front (Frelimo) — Mozambique experienced a new armed conflict. The new confrontation lasted for more than a decade and ended on 4 October 1992 with the signing of the General Peace Agreement (GPA) in Rome between the two parties to the conflict, the Government and the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo). The reasons for the latter conflict are still to be fully understood. There is no consensus yet which explains it or draws conclusions, and politics in the country are still polarized.
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Lundin, I.B., Chachiua, M., Gaspar, A., Guebuza, H., Mbilana, G. (2000). ‘Reducing Costs through an Expensive Exercise’: the Impact of Demobilization in Mozambique. In: Kingma, K. (eds) Demobilization in Sub-Saharan Africa. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62742-4_7
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