Mozambique Foes Sign Cease-Fire
Associated Press
ROME —
Mozambique’s government and rightist rebels signed a formal cease-fire Sunday, ending 16 years of civil war that took 600,000 lives.
The accord, and the free elections that are to follow in one year, would formally end the last shooting war of a region where ethnic and political tensions escalated into Cold War conflicts.
President Joaquim Chissano, an ex-Marxist, and Renamo rebel leader Afonso Dhlakama embraced repeatedly at the ceremony.
The cease-fire will go into effect once the National Assembly ratifies it.
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