Filipe Jacinto Nyusi

People close to the negotiations suspect that a hardline faction in the governing Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) with links to former President Armando Guebuza wants to sabotage President Filipe Nyusi's efforts to negotiate a deal with Dhlakama and his Resistência Nacional Moçambicana (Renamo) forces...

Changes at the top of state petroleum company Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH) and the industry regulator Instituto Nacional de Petróleo (INP) mark a further step in President Filipe Nyusi's bid to assert his authority and break from the networks created by his predecessor Armando Guebuza...

However we hear that President Filipe Nyusi's new government in Mozambique is putting several Chinese-backed contracts agreed under his predecessor Armando Guebuza on hold while their terms are reviewed...

In order to maintain the Fund's approval President Filipe Nyusi's government is to put all projects priced at over $50 mn...

New President Filipe Nyusi and his allies are conscious of the risk that their economic resuscitation plan could be diverted by a drawn-out post-mortem on the Guebuza era not to mention the political ructions that could surface...

Anger about the police has been building and public expectations of radical action by President Filipe Nyusi's government are high...

President Filipe Nyusi's new era – a decisive break with the policies and personalities of ex-President Armando Guebuza – has begun with an apparent financial disaster...

Ex-President Armando Guebuza has resigned from the presidency of the governing Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) having lost his power struggle with his successor as national President Filipe Nyusi (AC Vol 56 No 5 A shot at devolution)...

Suspicions are growing that the assassination of constitutional lawyer Gilles Cistac by gunmen in Maputo on 3 March is part of a power struggle between ex-President Armando Guebuza and his successor President Filipe Nyusi...

President Filipe Nyusi's new government announced on 17 January marks the expected break with former President Armando Guebuza's legacy and the arrival of a warmer political climate...