RENAMO insurgency (2013–2021) (apr 1, 2013 – dec 31, 2021)

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The RENAMO insurgency was a guerrilla campaign by militants of the RENAMO party and 1 of its splinter factions in Mozambique. The insurgency was widely considered to be an aftershock of the Mozambican Civil War; it resulted in renewed tensions between RENAMO and Mozambique's ruling FRELIMO coalition over charges of state corruption and the disputed results of the 2014 general elections.

A ceasefire was announced between the government and the rebels in September 2014. However, renewed tensions sparked violence in mid-2015.

On 1st August 2019, President Filipe Nyusi and RENAMO leader Ossufo Momade signed a peace agreement at RENAMO's remote military base in the Gorongosa mountains in order to bring an end to hostilities. Most remaining RENAMO fighters afterward surrendered their weapons. Another peace agreement was then signed by Nyusi and Momade in Maputo's Peace Square on 6th August 2019. However, a splinter faction known as the "RENAMO Military Junta" (RMJ) continued its insurgency. By February 2021, most of the RMJ had surrendered, although a few holdouts remained in rural areas without launching further attacks. RMJ ceased to exist in December 2021, when its last members surrendered.

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