The main conflict within the ruling party is between Nyusi supporters and the factions loyal to ex-President Armando Guebuza and his predecessor Joaquim Chissano...

The North Korean similes were out in force after party heavyweight Castigo Langa a key minister during President Joaquim Chissano's time had his effort to raise the third-term project at the congress firmly shut down...

There has been some discussion of trying to revive an AU committee set up by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in November last year consisting of Joaquim Chissano Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Kgalema Motlanthe – former presidents of Mozambique Liberia and South Africa respectively – to facilitate negotiations between the parties...

A year ago Abiy ignored the advice of the AU's delegation of three former presidents – Mozambique's Joaquim Chissano South Africa's Kgalema Motlanthe and Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf – to negotiate with Tigray's leaders...

Another who was a candidate in the 2014 internal selection process is former Prime Minister Luisa Diogo who is respected and has previously enjoyed support from the faction around ex-President Joaquim Chissano...

His unflinching stance was underlined when he met an African Union delegation led by Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Joaquim Chissano and Kgalema Motlanthe...

Mnangagwa had met Mozambique's ex-President Joaquim Chissano in October 2015 when he was Vice-President to Mugabe...

Nyusi may also be considering returning to the Joaquim Chissano-era strategy of having weaker armed forces thus lowering the risk of political threats from any Renamo officials absorbed into the armed forces or Frelimo military factions according to the Mozambique scholar Joseph Hanlon...

All three were high-ranking officials under former President Joaquim Chissano (Salomão and Ali serving as ministers) and are not in the Guebuza camp...