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SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS CHRISTOPHER BANCROFT BURNHAM OF UNITED STATES SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS JOAQUIM ALBERTO CHISSANO..

The eldest son of former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano has died while under investigation for possible involvement in the murder of a journalist.

' Chissano has offered to this armed band political space in times of peace, inclusion in the national army and, above all, forgiveness.

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS CHRISTOPHER BANCROFT BURNHAM OF UNITED STATES SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS JOAQUIM ALBERTO CHISSANO.

44In , former President Joaquim Chissano won the Mo Ibrahim prize of five million USD for African Leadership, partly for his role in the peace negotiations.

This article explores former President Joaquim Chissano's mediation in Madagascar after the political crisis that led to the ouster of.

Chissano is credited with negotiating an end to a long war

One of the founding members of the Mozambican Liberation Front (Frelimo) that fought Portuguese colonial rule, Joaquim Chissano has long been at the forefront of Mozambican political life.

He played a fundamental role in negotiating the 1974 Lusaka Accord that ended colonial rule.

He was prime minister of the transitional government that led up to independence in 1975, and thereafter was foreign minister under independent Mozambique's first president, Samora Machel.

Today, in his retirement, he cuts an "elder statesman" image and is often called upon by bodies like the United Nations to be an envoy or negotiator.

Currently, he chairs the Joaquim Chissano Foundation and the Forum of Former African Heads of State and Government.

Thrust to the forefront

Mozambique was in the grip of a civil war when President Machel died in a mysterious air crash in 1986.