Joaquim Alberto Chissano

Guebuza will wish to avoid the fate of his predecessor Joaquim Chissano whom he outmanoeuvred to gain the party leadership forcing Chissano to serve out his term until 2004 as a lame-duck President...

Once a World Bank official and then President Joaquim Chissano's Finance Minister who oversaw successful market reform in the 1990s she is a technocrat and Frelimo's presentable face abroad...

Joaquim Chissano the Mozambican former President now acting as a mediator for the crisis with SADC and AU support is more pragmatic...

Meanwhile he defends himself in the media releasing letters he has sent to Joaquim Chissano mediator and former Mozambican President...

The process started with January’s removal as Prime Minister of Luísa Dias Diogo a political heavyweight and the modernising technocratic face of the government at home and abroad who rose to prominence under ex-President Joaquim Chissano...

Sure to avoid the fate of his predecessor Joaquim Chissano whose leadership was undermined Guebuza will keep the succession in abeyance...

His Frente de Libertação de Moçambique seems impregnable having rolled back the political pluralism and economic liberalism of his predecessor President Joaquim Chissano after the end of the civil war in 1992...

Oldemiro Baloi a young moderniser was Industry Minister in President Joaquim Chissano’s first elected government...

So were leaders who included Botswanan ex-President Festus Mogae Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete and Mozambican ex-President Joaquim Chissano...

However as Joaquim Chissano Mozambique's former President and now the United Nations' envoy to the peace talks told the UN Security Council on 20 June there is no coordinated regional approach to speak of that might lead to a definitive military option...

He also proposed that a contingent of Africa's elder statesmen such as Botswana's Quett Masire Mozambique's Joaquim Chissano and Tanzania's Benjamin Mkapa should visit Zimbabwe to urge the two sides to work together as in the troubled mediation efforts in post-election Kenya...