Filipe Jacinto Nyusi

Having failed to persuade parliament to allow him to stand for a third term President Filipe Nyusi is bent on consolidating his position by securing a landslide for Frelimo in October's municipal elections we hear...

President Filipe Nyusi's ambition to cancel the two-term presidential limit and stand in next year's general election has finally died according to insiders in Maputo (AC Vol 63 No 21 Nyusi schemes to stay on)...

It alleges that the transactions 'involved the payment of large bribes to government officials' but has produced no evidence in London for fear we hear of implicating officials including President Filipe Nyusi...

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa still subject to western sanctions is almost certain to attend as is Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi...

President Filipe Nyusi will use every means at his disposal including taking credit for the likely resumption of the offshore gas projects this year to change the constitution to allow him to stand for a third term of office...

President Filipe Nyusi's government is still trying to keep a lid on the scandal of the US$2 billion in hidden loans which continue to haunt the President and could still prove his undoing...

Meanwhile security sources criticise President Filipe Nyusi's leadership and his continual statements about the insurgents being mere agents of jealous foreigners – never named – anxious to plunder Mozambique's natural resources...

On 28 October Rwandan President Paul Kagame flew to Maputo for a 'working visit' to discuss with President Filipe Nyusi how to improve conditions for the resumption of the LNG project among other matters...

President Filipe Nyusi hopes to yoke the ruling Frente de Libertação de Moçambique to his bid to change the constitution so he can have a third term of office...

Dos Santos divides in death Foreign dignitaries flew in including the presidents of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Mozambique Filipe Nyusi to honour the memory of President José Eduardo dos Santos whose state funeral took place four days after polling in the general election closed...

President Filipe Nyusi is believed to be using delaying tactics to minimise disclosure of his role in Mozambique's $2 billion hidden loans scheme as the ruling Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) prepares for its key annual congress in September (AC Vol 63 No 8)...