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 security sources...
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Now Iskandar Safa founder of Privinvest says in papers filed with the court that he paid money to incumbent President Filipe Nyusi as political contributions or 'investments' reports Bloomberg news (AC Vol 61 No 18 Credit Suisse names Guebuza)...
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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 – influencing the choice of the ruling Frente de Libertaçao de Moçambique's presidential candidate so that he is safe from future prosecution for corruption...
Vol 61 No 21 |
- MOZAMBIQUE
President Filipe Nyusi's grip on the problem has come increasingly into question from northern Makonde sections of the FADM and the ruling Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) who never had a high opinion of him as defence minister and we hear are content to see him swamped by the security problems regardless of the high cost...
Vol 61 No 19 |
- MOZAMBIQUE
One private military contractor close to the government told Africa Confidential that President Filipe Nyusi's government – Nyusi is from Cabo Delgado and very close to the Makonde generals who have been running it – is anxious not to involve regional forces in the province because of the risk of losing control...
Vol 61 No 13 |
- MOZAMBIQUE
Pretoria is secretly allowing DAG to operate in Mozambique on the strength of a request from President Filipe Nyusi...
Vol 61 No 11 |
- MOZAMBIQUE
Allegations of drugs crime and bribery are dogging President Filipe Nyusi's family...
Last November following agreements between President Filipe Nyusi and President Vladimir Putin at the Russia-Africa summit in Sochi in August the Russian private military contractor the Wagner Group came to Cabo Delgado and was soon in combat...
They have done especially well Frelimo sources say since Filipe Nyusi a fellow Makonde from Cabo Delgado became president (AC Vol 55 No 16 Gas cash and votes)...
The working year began with a day of golfing and post-inauguration partying for President Filipe Nyusi who was sworn into office on 15 January for his second five-year term amid exceptionally heavy security...
Amid the familiar tropes about prioritising peace and democracy Nyusi declared that 'work work work' was at the heart of his ethos and that 'I citizen Filipe Jacinto Nyusi your President am the first to promise this and to set an example...
Vol 60 No 21 |
- MOZAMBIQUE
President Filipe Nyusi has won a second and final term of office with the second-largest majority since multi-party elections began in 1994...
The violence reflected badly on Frelimo and President Filipe Nyusi who did not even pay lip service to condemning violence let alone vow to punish the perpetrators...
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