Mozambique's main opposition party elects new leader

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MAPUTO, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Mozambique's main opposition party Renamo elected senior member Ossufo Momade as its new leader on Thursday, according to delegates attending the vote.

Momade, 58, was elected during the 6th congress of the Renamo party, which started on Tuesday in Gorongosa mountain range of Sofala province.

Until the election, Momade has been the interim coordinator of the former rebel movement Renamo, who replaced the late Afonso Dhlakama since May 2018.

Momade has been a senior member of the party since 1978. He was in charge of the civil war guerrillas in the north of the country, and was promoted to lieutenant general after the cease-fire and elected regional delegate from the north of the country.

Momade was Renamo's general secretary until 2013, then head of the party's defense and security department, a position he had held until he won the leadership of the Renamo party. Enditem

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