FRELIMO
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FRELIMO is a democratic socialist political party in Mozambique. It has governed the country since its independence from Portugal in 1975.
FRELIMO 3rd Party Congress poster (1977)
1987 Soviet stamps commemorating 25 years since the founding of FRELIMO and 10 years of USSR-Mozambique relations
Graça and Samora Machel hosting Romanian Communist leader Nicolae Ceauşescu, Maputo, 1979
A section of the crowd at its final campaign rally for the 2014 election.
Mozambican Civil War
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The Mozambican Civil War was a civil war fought in Mozambique from 1977 to 1992 due to a combination of local strife and the polarizing effects of Cold War politics. The fighting was between Mozambiqu
FRELIMO
…initially as the sole legal party in a one-party system and later as the democratically elected government in a dominant-party system. FRELIMO fought a protracted civil war from 1976 to 1992 against the anti-communist Mozambican National Resistance or RENAMO. RENAMO received support from the white minority governments of…
Afonso Dhlakama (center), leader of RENAMO from 1979
Mozambican victim of land mines set up during the war