Recovering from war, Mozambican park again faces conflict
GORONGOSA NATIONAL PARK, Mozambique — A fragment of a bullet-pocked wall in this Mozambique wildlife reserve is a reminder of a civil war that ended in 1992. Today, an ambitious revival of Gorongosa National Park is underway, but trouble looms again from the conflict’s old foes.
One of Africa’s richest ecosystems, Gorongosa historically has been a stronghold of the country’s main opposition group, whose rivalry with the ruling party has spiraled into ambushes, tit-for-tat assassinations and other attacks in the last few years.