Two senior mediators in Mozambique’s peace talks aborted an attempt to visit opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama in his mountain hideout last weekend, Zitamar News can confirm. So far, the only accounts of what happened in Gorongosa on Saturday, 22 October, have come from Dhlakama himself through an interview with weekly newspaper Canal de Moçambique, and…...

Mediators including former Tanzanian president Jakaya Kikwete (left), Mario Raffaelli (second from left), and Jonathan Powell (right) observe a minute's silence for Jeremias Pondeca at the Mozambique peace talks, 18 October 2016