The Rome General Peace Accords, officially the General Peace Accords (Portuguese: Acordo Geral de Paz), was a peace treaty signed between the government of Mozambique and RENAMO, ending the Mozambican Civil War on October 4, 1992. Negotiations preceding the agreement began in July 1990. They were brokered by a team of four mediators, two members of the Community of Sant'Egidio, Andrea Riccardi and Matteo Zuppi, as well as Bishop Jaime Gonçalves and Italian government representative Mario Raffaelli. The delegation of the Mozambican government was headed by Armando Guebuza, who went on to become President of Mozambique. The RENAMO delegation consisted of Raul Domingos, José de Castro, Vicente Ululu, Agostinho Murrial, João Almirante, José Augusto and Anselmo Victor.[1] The accords were then signed by the then-president of Mozambique Joaquim Chissano, and by the leader of RENAMO, Afonso Dhlakama.
RENAMO declared on October 21, 2013 that they were annulling the peace accord as a result of a government attack on their base.[2][3][4]
^RENAMO declared the treaty void on October 21, 2013.
References
^Manning, Carrie L. (2002). The Politics of Peace in Mozambique: Post-conflict Democratization, 1992–2000. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood. p. 101. ISBN978-0-275-97686-6.
Eric Morier-Genoud, "Sant’Egidio et la paix. Interviews de Don Matteo Zuppi & Ricardo Cannelli", LFM. Social sciences & missions, no. 13, October 2003, pp. 119–145
Pierre Anouilh, "Des pauvres a la paix. Aspects de l'action pacificatrice de Sant'Egidio au Mozambique", LFM. Social sciences & missions, no. 17, December 2005, pp. 11–40
Moises Venancio, “Mediation by the Roman Catholic Church in Mozambique 1988–1991”, In Stephen Chan & Vivienne Jabri (eds), Mediation in Southern Africa, Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1993, pp. 142–158
Alex Vines & Ken Wilson, “Churches and the Peace Process in Mozambique 1988–1991”, In Paul Gifford (ed.), The Christian Churches and the Democratisation of Africa, Leiden : Brill, 1995, pp. 130–147
