Vol 49 No 13 | MOZAMBIQUE Tourist trap 20th June 2008 With backing from the World Bank's International Finance Corporation and the United States Agency for International Development President Armando Guebuza's government is trying to raise nearly US$3 billion...
Vol 49 No 3 | GUINEAMALIMOZAMBIQUE Ordinary rendition 1st February 2008 A diplomatic storm is brewing as Mozambican police crack down on West Africans they accuse of being illegal miners. The formal tone of a letter from the Mozambican...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 5 | MOZAMBIQUEINDIA Firing up the coal 6th November 2008 India needs coal to fire up its growth, freight rates from Australia's mines have soared, and India's own coal-mines are crippled by price controls and labour regulations. So importers are...
Vol 48 No 13 | MOZAMBIQUEECONOMY The clock turns back 22nd June 2007 He came to power in 2005 with a reputation as a nationalist bruiser with hardline views and a dubious past of Marxist policies and human rights abuses. Since...
Vol 48 No 3 | MOZAMBIQUE Guebuza and governance 2nd February 2007 As the World Bank proclaims its 'leadership role in the fight against fraud and corruption', it has emerged that it has breached its own good governance rules by...
Vol 47 No 23 | MOZAMBIQUE Vila Algarve 17th November 2006 The building which was the headquarters of torture and abuse by Portugal's secret police, is to be a centre for Mozambique's highest legal association, Ordem dos Advogados, in...
Vol 47 No 20 | MOZAMBIQUE Let it walk 6th October 2006 The economy is storming away and so is graft in President Guebuza's aid-dependent regime President Armando Emilio Guebuza promotes himself as a successful businessman and a reformer. Two years ago that won him the presidency (AC Vol 47 No 6), but he...
Vol 47 No 6 | MOZAMBIQUE Remaking Guebuza 17th March 2006 The businessman President talks of free markets but not of freer politics The makeover is complete. Step forward President Armando Emilio Guebuza, the thoroughly modern reformer. In the days of Marxist revolution and civil war, when the ruling Frente de...
Vol 47 No 6 | MOZAMBIQUE The Cahora Bassa takeover 17th March 2006 The great hydroelectric barrage at Cahora Bassa, on the Zambezi River, has a rated capacity of 2,075 megawatts, is one of Africa's largest dams and has been a...
Vol 46 No 12 | MOZAMBIQUE Born again Stalinism 10th June 2005 President Guebuza combines liberal economics with hard-line politics Treading the boards at the World Economic Forum in Cape Town last week, President Armando Guebuza, impressed the delegates as a witty and thoroughly modern business-minded reformer. Odd...