Vol 62 No 24 | MOZAMBIQUE Extradition mission 2nd December 2021 South Africa cannot make up its mind what to do with former Mozambican Finance Minister Manuel Chang, in jail for nearly three years since his arrest in December...
Vol 62 No 22 | MOZAMBIQUE Probe focus shifts to Nyusi 4th November 2021 The US authorities have fined the two foreign banks in the tuna bond scam. Now Maputo's politicians are in the frame in court Five years after Mozambique's economy sank into a quagmire of bad debt, Credit Suisse faces at least US$747 million of penalties for its part in the country's $2...
Vol 62 No 19 | MOZAMBIQUE The President did it 23rd September 2021 The trial of 19 state officials and ruling party members accused of corruptly benefiting from the US$2 billion hidden loans scandal continues to grip the country and embarrass...
Vol 62 No 19 | MOZAMBIQUERWANDA Capital crimes 23rd September 2021 The assassination of the exiled Rwandan businessman Revocant Karemangingo in a hail of bullets in Maputo on 13 September has shocked the country and prompted strong international protests....
Vol 62 No 18 | MOZAMBIQUE Mega fraud trial grips nation 9th September 2021 A live stream of the court hearings on the $2 billion hidden loans scandal yields drama and spotlights a distinctly uncomfortable President Nyusi The criminal trial in Maputo of many of the state and ruling party officials accused of involvement in the creation and theft of part of the US$2 billion...
Vol 62 No 18 | MOZAMBIQUETANZANIA Samia the securocrat 1st September 2021 The new president supports her security establishment’s policies on the Mozambican insurgency as well as harsh repression of the civil opposition Although it is the neighbouring country most affected by the Islamist insurgency in Mozambique's northern province of Cabo Delgado, Tanzania's response to the conflict is the most misunderstood....
Vol 62 No 17 | MOZAMBIQUE Taking the stand 26th August 2021 The long–awaited trial of 19 defendants on charges including abuse of public office, embezzlement and money laundering related to the US$2 billion hidden loans scandal has finally begun....
Vol 62 No 15 | MOZAMBIQUERWANDA Nyusi annoys the neighbours 22nd July 2021 While 1,000 Rwandan police and troops, widely admired for their military qualities, have arrived on the Afungi peninsula to defend the liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure against Cabo...
Vol 62 No 11 | MOZAMBIQUE Nyusi angers the region 27th May 2021 Maputo's resistance to a Southern African force to quell the insurgents is poisoning relations with its former allies Two months after Islamist militants mounted their spectacular invasion of the town of Palma in Cabo Delgado province, President Filipe Nyusi still does not know where to turn.... READ FOR FREE
Vol 62 No 10 | MOZAMBIQUE Total wants new terms 13th May 2021 French oil giant Total has been forced to follow through on its recent declaration of force majeure, and begin demobilising millions of dollars' worth of equipment from its...
DISPATCHES Vol 62 No 9 | MOZAMBIQUE Regional grouping postpones security summit 'indefinitely' as differences sharpen over Cabo Delgado conflict 30th April 2021 Officials distance themselves from a leaked strategy paper calling for a 3,000 strong intervention force to defeat Islamist insurgents Pushing back against a growing determination among regional states to take concerted action to quell the insurgency in northern Mozambique, President Fillipe Nyusi has managed to engineer an... READ FOR FREE
Vol 62 No 9 | MOZAMBIQUE Nyusi's breaking point 29th April 2021 President Filipe Nyusi is under heavy pressure to finally accept foreign military intervention to quash the escalating insurgency in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.
Vol 62 No 7 | MOZAMBIQUE Insurgents turn up the heat 1st April 2021 A well-planned attack on Palma in Cabo Delgado cost dozens of lives, raising questions about the future of the $20 billion gas project nearby Although government forces claimed definitive victory on 27 March over the Ahlu Sunna Wal Jammah (ASWJ) fighters who had seized control of Palma, on the northern tip of... READ FOR FREE
DISPATCHES Vol 62 No 7 | MOZAMBIQUE Regional leaders to meet in Maputo offering military help on Cabo Delgado insurgency 6th April 2021 President Nyusi will chair the emergency summit on 8 April having tried to minimise the crisis Three years after the start of the insurgency in Cabo Delgado which has so far claimed 2,500 lives and displaced over 700,000 President Filipe Nyusi has at last... READ FOR FREE
Vol 62 No 6 | MOZAMBIQUE High courts and hidden loans 18th March 2021 Mozambique's prospects for victory in its law suits over US$2 billion in hidden loans are dimming, according to legal sources. Maputo has been suing Lebanese businessman Iskandar Safa's...
Vol 62 No 4 | MOZAMBIQUE General confusion 18th February 2021 General Eugenio Mussa's death on 8 February from Covid-19, just three weeks after his appointment as Chief of the Armed Forces, is a major blow to President Filipe...
Vol 62 No 3 | MOZAMBIQUE Nyusi's loyalty test 4th February 2021 President Filipe Nyusi has reshuffled the military command while troops retrain and re-equip with new supplies to help meet the rebel threat in Cabo Delgado, according to local...
DISPATCHES Vol 62 No 3 | MOZAMBIQUE More woe for President Nyusi as shipbuilder Safa drags him into $2 billion secret loan scandal 2nd February 2021 Two Presidents have been named in legal fight pitting Maputo against Privinvest and Credit Suisse Attorney-General Beatriz Buchili's civil case in London against Credit Suisse and Abu-Dhabi shipbuilder Privinvest over the $2 billion secret loans saga – asserting the arrangements were illegal and... READ FOR FREE
Vol 62 No 1 | MOZAMBIQUE Nyusi running out of road 7th January 2021 The region is furious with Nyusi for failing to counter the northern insurgency as his position in both state and party weakens The chief concern of President Filipe Nyusi in the year ahead is the same that will take up most of the rest of his final term of office...