DISPATCHES Vol 62 No 9 | MOZAMBIQUE Regional grouping postpones security summit 'indefinitely' as differences sharpen over Cabo Delgado conflict 30th April 2021 Officials distance themselves from a leaked strategy paper calling for a 3,000 strong intervention force to defeat Islamist insurgents Pushing back against a growing determination among regional states to take concerted action to quell the insurgency in northern Mozambique, President Fillipe Nyusi has managed to engineer an... READ FOR FREE
Vol 62 No 9 | MOZAMBIQUE Nyusi's breaking point 29th April 2021 President Filipe Nyusi is under heavy pressure to finally accept foreign military intervention to quash the escalating insurgency in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.
Vol 62 No 7 | MOZAMBIQUE Insurgents turn up the heat 1st April 2021 A well-planned attack on Palma in Cabo Delgado cost dozens of lives, raising questions about the future of the $20 billion gas project nearby Although government forces claimed definitive victory on 27 March over the Ahlu Sunna Wal Jammah (ASWJ) fighters who had seized control of Palma, on the northern tip of... READ FOR FREE
DISPATCHES Vol 62 No 7 | MOZAMBIQUE Regional leaders to meet in Maputo offering military help on Cabo Delgado insurgency 6th April 2021 President Nyusi will chair the emergency summit on 8 April having tried to minimise the crisis Three years after the start of the insurgency in Cabo Delgado which has so far claimed 2,500 lives and displaced over 700,000 President Filipe Nyusi has at last... READ FOR FREE
Vol 62 No 6 | MOZAMBIQUE High courts and hidden loans 18th March 2021 Mozambique's prospects for victory in its law suits over US$2 billion in hidden loans are dimming, according to legal sources. Maputo has been suing Lebanese businessman Iskandar Safa's...
Vol 62 No 4 | MOZAMBIQUE General confusion 18th February 2021 General Eugenio Mussa's death on 8 February from Covid-19, just three weeks after his appointment as Chief of the Armed Forces, is a major blow to President Filipe...
Vol 62 No 3 | MOZAMBIQUE Nyusi's loyalty test 4th February 2021 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...
DISPATCHES Vol 62 No 3 | MOZAMBIQUE More woe for President Nyusi as shipbuilder Safa drags him into $2 billion secret loan scandal 2nd February 2021 Two Presidents have been named in legal fight pitting Maputo against Privinvest and Credit Suisse Attorney-General Beatriz Buchili's civil case in London against Credit Suisse and Abu-Dhabi shipbuilder Privinvest over the $2 billion secret loans saga – asserting the arrangements were illegal and... READ FOR FREE
Vol 62 No 1 | MOZAMBIQUE Nyusi running out of road 7th January 2021 The region is furious with Nyusi for failing to counter the northern insurgency as his position in both state and party weakens 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...
Vol 61 No 22 | MOZAMBIQUETANZANIA Insurgents cross border 5th November 2020 Many noted the bitter irony of President John Magufuli's government arresting all the leaders of Tanzania's opposition parties on clearly absurd terrorism charges (see Feature) at a time...