In the Mozambican Civil War beginning in 1977 and in Congo-Brazzaville ( today Republic of the Congo ) Cubans acted as advisors.

In addition, after the independence day on June 25, 1975, the eruption of the Mozambican Civil War ( 1977 – 1992 ) destroyed the remaining wealth and left the former Portuguese Overseas Province in a state of absolute disrepair.

Much of the economic recovery which has followed the end of the Mozambican Civil War ( 1977 – 1992 ) is being led by investors and tourists from neighbour South Africa and from East Asia.

* September 25 – The Mozambican War of Independence is launched by FRELIMO.

** The government of Mozambique signs a truce with leaders of RENAMO, ending the 16-year-old Mozambican Civil War.

The newly-independent countries were ravaged by brutal civil wars in the following decades – the Angolan Civil War ( 1975 – 2002 ) and Mozambican Civil War ( 1977 – 1992 )-responsible for millions of deaths and refugees.

In addition, after the independence day on June 25, 1975, the eruption of the Mozambican Civil War ( 1977 – 1992 ) destroyed the remaining wealth and left the former Portuguese Overseas Province in a state of absolute disrepair.

The economy of Mozambique has developed since the end of the Mozambican Civil War ( 1977 – 1992 ), but the country is still one of the world's poorest and most underdeveloped.

The situation was exacerbated by the Mozambican Civil War ( 1977 – 1992 ) during the following years that destroyed the remaining wealth and left the former Portuguese Overseas Province in a state of absolute disrepair.

The exodus of trained Portuguese and the eruption of the Mozambican Civil War in 1977 opposing RENAMO to FRELIMO, drove the country to absolute chaos.

" The term refers to the situation in which socialist FRELIMO, with Soviet backing, was forced to fight a lengthy civil war ( Mozambican Civil War ) against a counterinsurgency movement of Mozambicans named RENAMO, funded and directed by the neighboring capitalist economies of apartheid South Africa and the then Rhodesia.

All economic sectors ranging from manufacturing and agriculture to tourism and finance, declined sharply after independence from Portugal in 1975, but picked up in the 2000s after the end of the Mozambican Civil War, although they are still performing well below potential.

After the Mozambican Civil War, the return of internally displaced persons and the gradual restoration of rural markets have enabled Mozambique to increase agricultural production dramatically.

The Mozambican War of Independence lasted over 10 years, ending only in 1974 when the Estado Novo regime was overthrown in Lisbon by a leftist military coup-the Carnation Revolution.

Starting shortly after independence, the country was plagued, from 1977 to 1992, by a long and violent civil war opposing FRELIMO to RENAMO-the Mozambican Civil War.

As the Chimurenga or Bush War gathered force after 1972, Special Branch developed the Selous Scouts, an undercover tracker battalion of 1, 500 troops, 80 percent black, many having been recruited from captured guerrillas facing trial and possible execution, and also " pseudo guerrillas " such as the Mozambican National Resistance ( RENAMO ) to disrupt Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army ( ZANLA ) camps across the border in Mozambique.

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In the 1970s, Sino-Soviet ideological rivalry extended to Africa and the Middle East, where the Soviet Union and Red China funded and supported opposed political parties, militias, and states, notably the Ogaden War ( 1977 – 1978 ) between Ethiopia and Somalia, the Rhodesian Bush War ( 1964 – 1979 ), the Zimbabwean Gukurahundi ( 1980 – 1987 ), the Angolan Civil War ( 1975 – 2002 ), the Mozambican Civil War ( 1977 – 1992 ), and factions of the Palestinian people.

He went on to fight in the Mozambican War of Independence against the Portuguese colonial government and the authoritarian regime of the Estado Novo, by then engaged in a multi-front colonial war.

After the Mozambican Civil War, during which the Renamo rebels become a regular political party, Chissano won multi-party elections in 1994 and again in 1999.

In addition, the imperative of expunging all trace of socialist influence has compelled FRELIMO to rework official memories of the Mozambican War of Independence, a revision that has accelerated the slide of an already heavily mythologized official history.

Category: Mozambican War of Independence

Portugal increased popular support in Mozambique with this and other development works ( see Mozambican War of Independence ).

Category: Mozambican War of Independence

In fact, there were three different wars: the Angolan Independence War, the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence and the Mozambican War of Independence.

Category: Mozambican War of Independence

Rhodesian Mike Rousseau was serving as a mercenary in the Mozambican War of Independence.

Although these campaigns are collectively known as the " Portuguese Colonial War ", there were in fact three different ones: the Angolan Independence War, the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence and the Mozambican War of Independence.

South African military units were involved in the long-running Angolan and Mozambican civil wars throughout the 1980's, frequently supporting Pretoria's allies in the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) and the Mozambican National Resistance ( RENAMO ).

The site was agreed between Presidents Machel and Nyerere because this was the site of the first entry into Mozambique by Frelimo forces in the Mozambican War of Independence on 25 September 1964.

Victory Day on September 7 is a national holiday in Mozambique to commemorate the signing of the agreement to end the Mozambican War of Independence.

The town's strategic location meant that in the Mozambican War of Independence and Mozambican Civil War, guerrilla warfare was active in and around the town and many landmines were laid.

In 1974, during the Portuguese Colonial War / Mozambican War of Independence the Mozambican independentist guerrilla group FRELIMO launched mortar attacks against Vila Pery ( now Chimoio ), which was an important city of Portuguese Mozambique.

By the time independence came in 1975, Mozambican bands had abandoned their previous attempts at European-style music, and began forging new forms based out of local folk styles and the new African popular music coming from Zaire, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Zambia and South Africa.

FRELIMO came to regard economic exploitation by Western capital as the principal enemy of the common Mozambican people, not the Portuguese as such, and not Whites.

In the late 1980s, the Community came to the realization that their humanitarian efforts in Mozambique, then torn by the Mozambican Civil War, could not succeed without peace.

After the Rome General Peace Accords that put an end to the Mozambican Civil War ( 1976 – 1992 ), the Mozambican ruling regime called for democratic, multi-party elections in 1994.

| 1 July 2005 || 24 Aug 2005 || || Mozambican metical ( MZM ) || 24, 400 || new currency 1 July 2006: 1, 000 old Mozambique meticais ( MZM ) = 1 new Mozambique metical ( MZN ) ( old metical valid to end of 2006 )

* The business of peace: ‘ Tiny ’ Rowland, financial incentives and the Mozambican settlement on Rowland's role in bringing an end to the civil war in Mozambique.

The Rome General Peace Accords between the Mozambican Civil War parties, the Frelimo ( government ) and the Renamo ( rebels ), put an end to the Mozambique Civil War.

It is an acronym for ' Wambos, Namas, Hereros and Damaras ' In 2003, following governmental and public recommendations, it was renamed in honour of Mozambican President Samora Machel.