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Donor Support – 1993

RENAMO was hesitant to demobilize its combatants from conflict zones as there was delay in the allocation of funding to RENAMO to operate as a political party. At the donor’s conference the year before, Italy and some other donors had agreed to provide funds to RENAMO. On 8 June 1993, RENAMO made an indirect threat to take up arms once again if there was no money to finance its activity as a political party. At the opening session of the second donor’s conference in the Mozambican capital Maputo on June 8, 1993, the MNR’s chief negotiator, Raul Domingos, resorted to a veiled threat of war and blackmailing the Mozambican people and demanded financing and material goods for his movement.¹ The donor’s conference ended on June 9, 1993 and the donor countries pledged an additional $70 million to support the peace process in Mozambique. RENAMO received its promised monetary support from the international community.²

1. “OTHER SOUTHERN AFRICAN COUNTRIES; Mozambique: MNR makes “veiled threat” to Maputo donors’ conference,” BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, June 10, 1993.
2. Jeroen De Zeeuw, “Understanding the Political Transformation of Rebel Movement,” in From Soldiers to Politicians: Transforming Rebel Movements after Civil War, ed. Jeroen De Zeeuw (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008).