Mozambique

Mozambique

Population: 22.5 mn.
GDP: 14.6 bn.
Debt: 4.1 bn.
Overview:

President Armando Guebuza must leave office next year, so the succession race will heat up. Mayoral elections are due in the only two cities not controlled by the governing Frente de Libertação de Moçambique. Investment in coal exports should produce a boom.

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  • 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....

  • 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

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