ASAUK 2018

The paper studies the war in Inhambane province. The war started there in 1981 (1982 for the South of the province), but the government prepared for war there beforehand and the military was therefore active before that date. The author looks at whether and why the armed conflict took a different dynamic in the region. He studies religious organisations, NGOs and the economy, distinguishing between three periods – the early days up to Nkomati, a full war with the development of a war economy after Nkomati, and a last phase of the war, after 1989, when private militia emerge and war became particularly nasty though some actors were already starting to plan for the end of the war.