The big question is who will lead the Renamo movement which has both parliamentary and armed wings.

President Filipe Nyusai says he tried to fly Afonso Dlakama for  emergency medical treatment when heard the 65-year-old had suffered a heart attack.

But the Renamo leader has been hiding back in the Gorongoza mountains since 2013 and could not be reached.

The Mozambican president says the last thing Dlakama said to him at their meeting last February is that he would  to miss a step in the peace process.

Renamo fought a 16-year civil war against Frelimo that’s ruled Mozambique since 1975.

That ended in 1992, but Dlakama never gave up his fighters.

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