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Mozambique
Population: 21.6 mn.
GDP: 9.5 bn.
Debt: 1.6 bn.
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Government business will take a back seat as Frelimo factions prepare for the September congress to debate a successor to President Armando Guebuza in the 2015 election. Railway rehabilitation speeds up to boost coal and other exports. 

Mozambique Country Report

 


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  • Vol 53 No 2
  •  20th January 2012

Maputo shuns US concern

The government appears indifferent about beefing up coastal security and introducing anti-pirate laws

  • Vol 52 No 25
  •  16th December 2011

Return of the Chissanoistas

President Guebuza’s bid to stay on looks dead, which could mean a Chissano comeback

  • Vol 52 No 25
  •  16th December 2011

Comrades and compromisers

Eduardo Mulémbuè: Parliament's former, long-serving Speaker, is a low-key, neutral figure with support across the Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) factions and a good compromise candidate.

  • Vol 52 No 25
  •  16th December 2011

Small coup in Quelimane

The victory of the Movimento Democrático de Moçambique in the mayoral by-election in Quelimane on 7 December was a humiliating – and unnecessary – defeat for the ruling Frente de Libertação de Moçambique. It also confirmed the widespread belief that the M...

  • Vol 52 No 19
  •  23rd September 2011

By-election business

The resignation of three Frente de Libertação de Moçambique mayors is raising strong political interest, as well as the hopes of opposition parties, in the by-elections set for 7 December. The mayors, Pio Matos of Quelimane, Sidique Yacub of Pemba, and Ar...

  • Vol 52 No 18
  •  9th September 2011

Taking a stake in economic development

Presidential friends edge out Frelimo’s friends

  • Vol 52 No 18
  •  9th September 2011

Celso Correia, favourite son

At the age of 30, Celso Correia became the head of Mozambique’s second largest bank, the Banco Comerical e de Investimentos (BCI), and of the strategic northern transport corridor, the Corredor de Desenvolvimento do Norte (CDN). From relative obscurity, t...

  • Vol 52 No 18
  •  9th September 2011

Lobbying on

Just as Mozambique’s Resistência Nacional Moçambicana threatens to return to violence, the man who championed it at the height of its atrocities has surfaced in papers found in the offices in Libya of Moammar el Gadaffi’s fallen Prime Minister, El Baghdad...

  • Vol 52 No 17
  •  26th August 2011

Renamo threatens a return to violence

As it regroups to take on Frelimo in 2014, the former armed opposition talks of a return to the military option

  • Vol 52 No 11
  •  27th May 2011

Coal train blues

Vast coal mines are ready to export millions of tonnes to Asia but disputes over transport and contracts are holding back the trade

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