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...
Vol 44 No 24 | MOZAMBIQUE Urban guerrillas 5th December 2003 As it plots a path beyond President Joaquim Chissano's retirement at 2004's general elections, the ruling Frente de Libertação de Moçambique has emerged from November's local elections looking...
Vol 44 No 12 | MOZAMBIQUE Guebuza blues 13th June 2003 The prospect of a new president is forcing Frelimo's divisions to the surface With the December 2004 elections now in sight and President Joaquim Chissano stepping down after 18 years in power, the long-running battle for power in the ruling Frente...
Vol 44 No 12 | MOZAMBIQUE Who loses under Guebuza 13th June 2003 Helder Muteia: the Minister of Agriculture. A Young Turk reformer, he naively accepted the mantle of the Chissano camp in the leadership contest where Guebuza decisively beat him....
Vol 43 No 25 | MOZAMBIQUE A flood of mud 20th December 2002 The President's son is not on trial but he's on the spot The trial of those accused of killing crusading journalist Carlos Cardoso (AC Vol 41 No 24), broadcast live and likely to last at least until the New Year,...