President Filipe Nyusi pledged to continue search for lasting peace

A man sits at the entrance of a house in Vunduzi on the foothill of Gorongosa mountains on May 8, 2018 where Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) leader Afonso Dhlakama died on May 3, 2018, as the village is placed on the frontline of the conflict between RENAMO and the Mozambican Ruling party Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO). / AFP PHOTO / ADRIEN BARBIER

Locals in Vunduzi, a village near the place where Mozambican soldiers and former Renamo rebels fought their last battle, fear that Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama’s death this month could spell fresh unrest.

Sitting at the foot of the Gorongosa Mountains in central Mozambique, Vunduzi was a ghost village two years ago with a handful of stalls basically serving government troops deployed there.