Mozambique: Dissidents Call for Extraordinary Congress

Maputo — Former guerrillas who once fought for the Mozambican rebel movement Renamo are collecting signatures to a petition demanding an extraordinary Renamo congress to sack the party’s leader, Ossufo Momade.

According to a report in the independent daily “O Pais’, the demobilised guerrillas announced on Tuesday the launch of a national campaign to collect signatures demanding an extraordinary congress.

The group’s spokesperson, Joao Machava, told a Maputo press conference that the purpose of…