RENAMO

===Later activity===
RENAMO unified with another rebel group, the [[Revolutionary Party of Mozambique]] (PRM) in 1982. As result of this merger, the rebel group was able to expand its operations in northern Mozambique, particularly in [[Zambezia Province]].{{sfnp|Cabrita|2000|p=202}}{{sfnp|Emerson|2014|p=90}} In 1984 the South African and Mozambican governments signed the [[Nkomati Accord]],<ref>Ashton, P.J., Earle, A., Malzbender, D., Moloi, M.B.H., Patrick, M.J. & Turton, A.R. 2005. ''A Compilation of all the international freshwater agreements entered into by South Africa with other States''. Pretoria: Water Research Commission; and Turton, A.R. 2003. ''The political aspects of institutional development in the water sector: South Africa and its International River Basions'' D.Phil. Thesis. Pretoria: Pretoria University; and Turton, A.R. 2007. ''The Hydropolitics of Cooperation: South Africa during the Cold War''. In Grover, V.E. (ed). ''Water: A source of conflict or cooperation?'' Enfield: Science Publishers.</ref> in which the South African National Party minority regime promised to stop sponsoring RENAMO operations if the Mozambican government expelled exiled members of the [[African National Congress]] (ANC) residing there. This was consistent with the [[Total National Strategy]] pursued by the [[National Party (South Africa)|National Party]] regime, utilizing threats of military reprisals to force Mozambique into subjugation under the [[Afrikaner nationalism|Afrikaner nationalists]] hegemonial ambitions in the region.<ref>Geldenhuys, D. 1984. ''The Diplomacy of Isolation: South African Foreign Policy Making''. Johannesburg: MacMillan.</ref> In 1988, RENAMO experienced its only major split during the civil war, when former PRM commander Gimo Phiri broke off and founded an independent insurgent group known as [[Mozambican National Union]] (UNAMO).{{sfnp|Emerson|2014|p=163}}

While the Mozambican government did shut down the local ANC offices and its operations in accordance with the Nkomati Accord, the National Party government of South Africa continued funnelling financial and military resources to RENAMO.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RPVw4E9qBGIC&dq=nkomati+accord+anc+offices+closed&pg=PA155|title=Africa|date=2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-39822-0|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Ellis|first=Stephen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OQyxAAAAQBAJ&dq=nkomati+accord+anc+offices+closed&pg=PP207|title=External Mission: The ANC in Exile, 1960-1990|date=2013-10-01|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-936529-6|language=en}}</ref> A permanent [[Rome General Peace Accords|peace accord]] was reached only in 1992, monitored by the United Nations Operation in Mozambique ([[UNOMOZ]]) until its finalisation in 1994. This process went on simultaneously to the [[Negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa|negotiations]] between the [[National Party (South Africa)|National Party]] minority government and the ANC about the termination of Apartheid policies and the transformation to a democratic dispensation in South Africa. The South African National Intelligence Service initiated the [[Operation Bush Talk]], which was designed to phase out the National Party's longstanding substantial support to RENAMO and allow their proxy to accommodate to the new regional realities.<ref>Turton. A.R. 2010. ''Shaking Hands with Billy''. Durban: Just Done Publications. [https://web.archive.org/web/20221102105105/http://www.shakinghandswithbilly.com/admin/ckeditor/litsoft-fm_v1.00/userfiles/files/Billy%20Table%20of%20Contents.pdf Shaking Hands with Billy: The Private Memoirs of Anthony Richard Turton]</ref>

The peace accord led to the disarmament of RENAMO, to the integration of some of its fighters into the Mozambican army and to its transformation into a regular political party.  It is now the main opposition party in Mozambique. At the [[legislative]] [[elections in Mozambique|elections]] on 1 and 2 December 2004, the party was the main part of the [[Renamo-UE]] electoral alliance, that won 29.7% of the popular vote and 90 out of 250 seats. The presidential candidate of this alliance, [[Afonso Dhlakama]], won 31.7% of the popular vote.

[[Raul Domingos]], negotiator at the [[Rome General Peace Accords]] and RENAMO's leader in parliament from 1994 to 1999, was expelled from the party in 2000, and in 2003, founded the [[Party for Peace, Democracy, and Development]].