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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. 

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  • Vol 48 No 3
  •  2nd February 2007

Guebuza and governance

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 Pr...

  • Vol 47 No 23
  •  17th November 2006

Vila Algarve

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.

  • Vol 47 No 20
  •  6th October 2006

Let it walk

The economy is storming away and so is graft in President Guebuza's aid-dependent regime

  • Vol 47 No 6
  •  17th March 2006

Remaking Guebuza

The businessman President talks of free markets but not of freer politics

  • Vol 47 No 6
  •  17th March 2006

The Cahora Bassa takeover

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. Fo...

  • Vol 46 No 12
  •  10th June 2005

Born again Stalinism

President Guebuza combines liberal economics with hard-line politics

  • Vol 45 No 25
  •  17th December 2004

Guebuza's day

Frelimo has won a huge but tarnished victory in this month's elections

  • Vol 45 No 25
  •  17th December 2004

Man with a past

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 chaotic ...

  • Vol 44 No 25
  •  19th December 2003

Tension at the top

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...

  • Vol 44 No 24
  •  5th December 2003

Urban guerrillas

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....

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