WORLD IN BRIEF : MOZAMBIQUE : Opposition Parties Allowed to Compete
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President Joaquim Chissano announced that for the first time, opposition parties will be allowed to compete for power in Mozambique. The announcement, reported by the government’s national news agency AIM, is considered a major concession that could help end the nation’s 13-year-old civil war. “It’s a positive step,” Manuel Frank, Lisbon representative of the Mozambique National Resistance, said in Portugal. But he called for talks, saying the rebels could not accept unilateral decisions by the government.
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