In Mozambique, a Peace Agreement Ends

Tensions are running high between Mozambique's ruling party and the political opposition, but a return to all-out civil war seems highly unlikely. On Oct. 22, fighters from the Mozambique National Resistance Movement, commonly known as Renamo, attacked a police station in Maringue, a city located in central Sofala province, according to Radio Mozambique. The attack comes one day after the group annulled its 1992 peace agreement with the ruling Mozambique Liberation Front. Despite the recent attack, Renamo is not militarily capable of restarting a war, nor does it have a foreign patron willing to sponsor it in its bid to take power by force.