South Sudan: Mozambique Troops Wipe Out MNR Bandit Camps

The Herald, 5 September, 1985

Two camps of MNR bandits in Maputo province were destroyed in the last week of August, according to a report in yesterday’s issue of Noticias.

One of the camps at Malengane in the district of Manhica, some 50km north of the capital, was used by MNR gangs who attacked vehicles on the main north-south highway.

Over the last two months, a series of savage ambushes on the road in the area of Maluane have cost the lives of about a hundred civilians. Buses packed full of…