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History of Cobue


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style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language: EN" lang="EN">The town of Cobue has an old ruined Roman Catholic church and school. Although the church was only built in the 1950s, it was burned down during the civil war for independence, which lasted from the early 1960s to 1974. During wartime the school served as a base for Frelimo and today there is still a danger from landmines on the grounds. The local diocese didn’t have the funds to re roof the church, and it is still used today, one of the rooms tidied with chairs neatly in a row, with table for an altar was now used for weekly mass in Cobue.

The last attack on Cobue was in May 1986 during the Mozambican Civil War, when Frelimo forces occupied the coastline and came under attack from the RENAMO, of the Mozambique National Resistance Organisation, a military unit of dissident Mozambican soldiers controlled by the Rhodesian army. On a day that the Frelimo were celebrating a wedding, Renamo forces attacked Cobué and killed many people. The Renamo rebels had a reputation for violence, and schools and hospitals were razed and some educated professionals in the town such as teachers and doctors were executed and were victim to savage acts

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