Armando Emílio Guebuza

Former President Armando Guebuza's son Ndambi Guebuza among others is in jail awaiting trial...

The arrest last weekend of Ndambi Guebuza eldest son of ex-President Armando Guebuza in connection with the US$2 billion hidden loans scandal has sent shock waves through the ruling Frente de Libertaçao de Moçambique (Frelimo) elite and the intelligence service the Serviço de Informação e Segurança do Estado (SISE)...

In September 2013 France's President François Hollande and President Armando Guebuza presided over a ceremony in the port of Cherbourg to celebrate the Mozambican order of interceptor boats and trawlers which rescued 400 jobs with Privinvest subsidiary Constructions mécaniques de Normandie (CMN)...

Hopes were high he would take action to sweep away the corruption of the Armando Guebuza era but these soon faded (AC Vol 57 No 6 Nyusi's resolve in doubt)...

And while he is trying to clear out ex-President Armando Guebuza's unaccountable network of cronies they made sure that as many senior members of the party benefitted thus compromising them (AC Vol 58 No 21 Team Nyusi wins a point)...

Lidimo who was already seriously ill took control on behalf of the Nyusi-supporting Makonde generals while ex-President Armando Guebuza was distracted by the death of his daughter Valentina earlier in the year we hear (AC Vol 58 No 6 Nyusi celebrates Exxon's entry)...

It has not been an easy journey for President Filipe Nyusi who does not inspire the same personal loyalty as his predecessor the redoubtable Armando Guebuza...

The Kroll report supports long-held suspicions that the three maritime projects were a smokescreen created so that the government of the then President Armando Guebuza – who is not directly mentioned in Kroll's summary – could acquire funds for other purposes...

The extent of the secret loan scandal under which the government guaranteed loans worth US$2 billion for a series of dubious maritime projects during the second term of President Armando Guebuza became clearer in April 2016...

New spy chiefAnother key shift away from the power bases created by ex-President Armando Guebuza came at the end of January with the replacement of his diehard henchman Gregório Leão José as head of the secret service the Serviço de Informação e Segurança do Estado (SISE) by a Makonde General Lagos Henriques Lidimo...

Mozambique's deal came in 2014 just as President Armando Guebuza was nearing the end of his final term...

If investigations into the hidden loans scandal that took place on President Armando Guebuza's watch give it enough ammunition this group will grow in confidence and may start to challenge seriously the dinosaurs' grip on Frelimo (AC Vol 57 No 23 The burden of war and debt)...