With backing from the World Bank's International Finance Corporation
and the United States Agency for International Development
President Armando Guebuza's government is trying to raise nearly US$3 billion for several massive new tourist develop...
A diplomatic storm is brewing as Mozambican police crack down on West Africans they accuse of being illegal miners. The formal tone of a letter from the Mozambican High Commission in Pretoria, South Africa, announcing it has ‘the honour to inform’ the Gui...
He came to power in 2005 with a reputation as a nationalist bruiser
with hardline views and a dubious past of Marxist policies and
human rights abuses. Since then, President Armando Guebuza
has worked to recreate himself as a thoroughly modern leader.
...
As the World Bank proclaims its 'leadership role in the fight
against fraud and corruption', it has emerged that it has breached
its own good governance rules by facilitating and endorsing the
award of a state electricity contract to a company in which...
The building which was the headquarters of torture and abuse
by Portugal's secret police, is to be a centre for Mozambique's
highest legal association, Ordem dos Advogados, in a reparations
deal.
The economy is storming away and so is graft in President Guebuza's
aid-dependent regime
The businessman President talks of free markets but not of freer
politics
The great hydroelectric barrage at Cahora Bassa, on the Zambezi
River, has a rated capacity of 2,075 megawatts, is one of Africa's
largest dams and has been a centre of contention since its completion
in 1974, the year before Mozambique's Independence....
President Guebuza combines liberal economics with hard-line politics
Frelimo has won a huge but tarnished victory in this month's elections
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