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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 44 No 12
  •  13th June 2003

Guebuza blues

The prospect of a new president is forcing Frelimo's divisions to the surface

  • Vol 44 No 12
  •  13th June 2003

Who loses under Guebuza

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,...

  • Vol 43 No 25
  •  20th December 2002

A flood of mud

The President's son is not on trial but he's on the spot

  • Vol 43 No 18
  •  13th September 2002

Scot free

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).

  • Vol 43 No 13
  •  28th June 2002

Seconds out

Corruption is the issue for the ruling party's new presidential candidate

  • Vol 43 No 4
  •  22nd February 2002

Graça gets ready

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...

  • Vol 42 No 25
  •  21st December 2001

Murder again

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.

  • Vol 42 No 8
  •  20th April 2001

Talks break down

Hardliners on both sides have opted for confrontation

  • Vol 42 No 3
  •  9th February 2001

Not so nutty

Cashew nuts are the biggest export after prawns and sugar is another rare money-spinner. The government wants to protect these industries; the World Bank and International Monetary Fund wanted to open them to world competition. Now the Bank and Fund have ...

  • Vol 41 No 24
  •  8th December 2000

Carlos Cardoso

The assassination of pioneering Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso in central Maputo on 22 November shows the growing threat to African reporters.

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