President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for the intensification of efforts to silence guns on the African continent during his working visit to Mozambique on Thursday, at the invitation of Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi.
“We must intensify our efforts to silence the guns on our continent, because can be no economic development or social progress where there is conflict when guns are drawn. Instead, we need to strengthen our partnership to pursue our common objectives, which are the promotion peace and security, sustainable economic development as well as regional and continental integration,” Ramaphosa said.
He was accompanied by Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Candith Mashego-Dlamini and Deputy Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Thabang Makwetla.
His visit coincides with the fifty-third commemoration of the assassination of the founding president of the FRELIMO party Dr Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane.
“Dr Eduardo Mondlane was a giant of the Mozambican liberation struggle, a revolutionary pan-Africanist and an unquestionable internationalist who paid
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