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Afonso Dhlakama

Leader of RENAMO
In office
17 October 1979 – 3 May 2018
Preceded byAndré Matsangaissa
Succeeded byOssufo Momade
Personal details
Born(1953-01-01)1 January 1953
Mangunde, Sofala Province
Portuguese Mozambique
Died3 May 2018(2018-05-03) (aged 65)
Gorongosa, Sofala Province, Mozambique
Political partyRENAMO

Afonso Marceta Macacho Dhlakama (1 January 1953 – 3 May 2018) was a Mozambican politician and the leader of RENAMO, an anti-communist guerrilla movement that fought the FRELIMO government in the Mozambican Civil War before signing a peace agreement and becoming an opposition political party in the early 1990s. Dhlakama was born in Mangunde, Sofala Province.

Mozambican Civil War

After RENAMO's first leader, André Matsangaissa, was killed by Mozambican government forces in 1979, Dhlakama became leader. By 1984, Dhalakama was both commander in chief of RENA Biografia de afonso dhlakama.