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...
Vol 45 No 25 | MOZAMBIQUE Guebuza's day 17th December 2004 Frelimo has won a huge but tarnished victory in this month's elections The result was not quite what Mozambique's young, post-war generation would have hoped for. President-elect Armando Emilio Guebuza, poised to succeed Joaquim Chissano after the elections on 2-3...
Vol 45 No 25 | MOZAMBIQUE Man with a past 17th December 2004 Armando Emilio Guebuza (61), from Nampula, was associated with the worst abuses of Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo). As Interior Minister during the transition to Independence in...
Vol 44 No 25 | MOZAMBIQUE Tension at the top 19th December 2003 Greatly strengthened by November's local elections (AC Vol 44 No 24), the Secretary General of Frente de Libertaçao de Moçambique (Frelimo), Armando Guebuza, is preparing to purge the...