Explain six factors that enabled FREMLIMO to win liberation war in Mozambique.

Explain six factors that enabled FREMLIMO to win liberation war in Mozambique. (12mks)

Military strategy of attacking Portuguese posts simultaneously.
Support from communist countries e.g. USSR and China.
Used guerilla warfare in the heavily forested areas.
Had support from the local people who joined the war, provided food, information and other necessities.
Was familiar with the terrain unlike the Portuguese.
Cultivated its own food.
Its system of administration in liberated areas made it very popular and many Africans supported the front.
The unity of Africans in fighting the Portuguese.
It was supported by Independent African countries through the organization of African Unity (OAU).
FRELIMO collaborated with freedom fighters from Southern Rhodesia and fought together
against Portuguese bases in Mozambique.