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.

news from Mozambique

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  • 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.

  • Vol 41 No 23
  •  24th November 2000

Still resisting

Post-war reconciliation looked shakier after clashes between the opposition Resistência Nacional Moçambicana and police on 9 November. More than 40 people died and over 100 were injured.

  • Vol 41 No 6
  •  17th March 2000

Good-relief, debt-relief

Donors switch money into flood relief, the government is washed off economic course

  • Vol 41 No 6
  •  17th March 2000

Early warning

President Joaquim Chissano's new government in January included several tried and trusted ministers, whose experience has paid off in the flood disaster. The team at Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Minister Leonard Simão and his deputies, Frances ...

  • Vol 41 No 5
  •  3rd March 2000

Killer floods

The National Summit on Africa in Washington on 16-20 February attracted several star speakers, such as United States President Bill Clinton and Organisation of African Unity Secretary General Salim Ahmed Salim, and some 2,300 delegates. Its aim was to pus...

  • Vol 41 No 3
  •  4th February 2000

Falling out, falling in

The government is doing well but the opposition's problems are growing

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