Armando Emilio Guebuza (61), from Nampula, was associated
with the worst abuses of Frente de Libertação
de Moçambique (Frelimo). As Interior Minister during
the transition to Independence in 1975, he helped to precipitate
the chao...
Greatly strengthened by November's local elections (AC Vol 44 No 24), the Secretary General of Frente de Libertaçao de Moçambique (Frelimo), Armando Guebuza, is preparing to purge the party of some of incumbent President Joaquim Chissano's b...
As it plots a path beyond President Joaquim Chissano's retirement at 2004's general elections, the ruling Frente de Libertação de Moçambique has emerged from November's local elections looking rather more vulnerable than it had hoped....
The prospect of a new president is forcing Frelimo's divisions to the surface
Helder Muteia: the Minister of Agriculture. A Young Turk reformer, he naively accepted the mantle of the Chissano camp in the leadership contest where Guebuza decisively beat him. Aware that he has little future under Guebuza, he is keeping a low profile,...
The President's son is not on trial but he's on the spot
The escape from a 'maximum security' prison in Maputo of a man held for killing crusading editor Carlos Cardoso adds to suspicions that the government is concealing high level involvement in two murders and US$400 million in bank frauds (AC Vol 43 No 13).
Corruption is the issue for the ruling party's new presidential candidate
Graça Machel's discreet campaign for the presidency gathers pace. We hear she failed to attend a meeting at the United Nations University for Peace of which she is Chancellor because she is too busy politicking in Mozambique. Presidential elections...
The race for the presidency is on. President Joaquim Chissano, 62, has decided it's time to retire. He has been President since 1986 and almost lost in 1999 to Afonso Dhlakama of the Resistência Nacional Moçambicana.
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