Word: frelimo
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George Rebello and Jaime Sigauke, officials of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO), told a Quincy House African Table audience of Portuguese torture and oppression in the East African colony, and described the spreading in northern Mozambique...
...Rebello, FRELIMO'S secretary of information and until recently a student in Lisbon, said the U.S. since 1951 has given Portugal over half a billion dollars in war materials through the NATO alliance. Though the U.S stresses that the arms are for the defence of Europe and are "not to be used in the Portuguese colonies", the rebels have captured Americans weapons in Mozambique since the revolt began in earnest in September...
...issues around which all black Africans can rally. Dar es Salaam (Arabic for "Haven of Peace") further belies its name by serving as the home base for at least seven African insurgent parties dedicated to eradicating colonialism and apartheid from the south. Largest is the Mozambican Liberation Front-Frelimo-which maintains a military training camp 40 miles northwest of Dar, where some 500 young Mozambican refugees receive weapons training with rifles supplied by Algeria...