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 | | As founder and Commander-in-Chief of the MYP, Dr Banda himself emphasised the developmental role they were supposed to play in the life of the new nation, at the expense of their political activities which were to intimidate and annoy many Malawians with the passage of time. |
 | | In March 1987, Dr Banda reached an agreement with the new Mozambican President, Joaquim Chissano, according to which units of the Malawi Army were to operate jointly with those of the Mozambican Army in guarding the Northern Mozambique Railway Line from Nayuchi on the Malawi-Mozambique border to the port of Nacala on the east coast. |
 | | This was in many ways a fence-mending gesture on Dr Bandas part, given the extent to which the international community had for long linked him to the destabilising campaign in Mozambique, and to the cause of the death, in an air crash, of Mozambiques first president, Samora Machel, in September 1986. |
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