Mozambique Defence Armed Forces

The Mozambique Defence Armed Forces, in Portuguese Forcas Armadas de Defesa de Mocambique or FADM, are the national armed forces of Mozambique. They consist of the General Staff of the Armed Forces and three branches of service, the Army, the Air Force and the Navy. The FADM were formed in mid August 1994 by integrating the earlier Forcas Armadas de Mocambique, the former FPLM, with the military wing of RENAMO after the end of the civil war, which had ended only in 1992. The earlier army was abolished under a joint commission, the CCFADM, which included advisers from Portugal, France and the United Kingdom, and which recommended merging former army personnel with an equal number of demobilised RENAMO fighters into a single force of about 30,000. The force has since taken part in joint operations with neighbours, such as Blue Hungwe in Zimbabwe in 1997 and Blue Crane in South Africa in 1999.