Maputo — The first military base of Mozambique's former rebel movement, Renamo has been dismantled in the central province of Sofala - but when international observers visited the place, there was nobody there.
Under the peace agreement signed between President Filipe Nyusi and Renamo leader Ossufo Momade on 6 August last year, all Renamo bases should have been dismantled by 21 August, but until now there had been no movement at all on this clause in the peace deal.
A brief declaration by Mirko Manzoni, the Special Envoy to Mozambique of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, dated Saturday, said that an inspection team, consisting of representatives of the Mozambican government, Renamo and the international community, set off on foot from the town of Dondo in Sofala "to inspect the nearby Renamo base".
Manzoni claimed that all the Renamo former guerrillas who had once been at the base "are at home and are beginning their new lives.
No information has even been released as to how many Renamo bases exist, or where they are located.