Mozambique Rebels to Halt Attacks
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NAIROBI, Kenya — In a gesture of good will, Mozambican rebels said Friday they were immediately halting military attacks on a key road and rail corridor linking Malawi, Zaire and Zambia with Mozambique’s port of Nacala.
“We believe this act will go a long way in reducing the suffering of the people and will be of direct benefit to the countries served by this corridor,” Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the Mozambique National Resistance, said in a statement.
The statement was issued four days after Mozambican Catholic and Anglican bishops held talks in Nairobi with Dhlakama and five other MNR leaders on ways of ending Mozambique’s 14-year-old civil war.
The Nacala corridor is a 300-mile stretch of road and railway line that has frequently been sabotaged by the right-wing MNR, fighting since 1975 to topple Mozambique’s left-wing government.
In the 1970s it carried the bulk of exports and imports for Zaire and landlocked Zambia and Malawi, but has been crippled by the conflict.
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