Armando Emílio Guebuza

The deals and loans arranged under President Armando Guebuza and largely kept secret under his successor Filipe Nyusi mean that Mozambicans now face the prospect of penury under the yoke of debt repayments on an epic scale...

These loans appear to have been arranged by the same group of securocrats close to former President Armando Guebuza and the same banks Credit Suisse and Russia's VTB Bank that brokered the much-criticised US$850 million Ematum bond an arms deal unsuccessfully disguised as a fishing operation (AC Vol 56 No 14 The fishing deal got fishier)...

Already clearly out of sorts and oppressed by having to defend the fiscal legacy of the Armando Guebuza administration which he had little knowledge of he cut a sorry figure...

Much had been expected at the Central Committee meeting on 5 February but the new party secretariat then appointed turned out to be made up largely of loyalists of ex-President Armando Guebuza...

Cronyism charge hurts President All eyes have been on President Filipe Nyusi to see if he will emulate the cronyism seen under his predecessor Armando Guebuza whose patronage system was extensive and unashamed...

However he faces not only the visible resistance of some members of the Frente de Libertação de Moçambique from Armando Guebuza's reign but also from senior Frelimo members who share his Makonde ethnicity led by the liberation war veteran General Alberto Chipande...

The fact that he was not a veteran of the governing Frente de Libertação de Moçambique's liberation war was a breath of fresh air after the authoritarian rule of Armando Guebuza...

The former President Armando Guebuza ignored the IMF's warnings say sources close to the Fund...

Supporters of ex-President Armando Guebuza dominate Frente de Libertação de Moçambique's all-important Political Commission which has imposed the new line sources in Maputo say...

Though less forthright than the US Embassy this had weight because it included the African Union East African Community Southern African Development Community and Commonwealth observer teams led by Mozambique's former President Armando Guebuza and other African statesmen...

People close to the negotiations suspect that a hardline faction in the governing Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) with links to former President Armando Guebuza wants to sabotage President Filipe Nyusi's efforts to negotiate a deal with Dhlakama and his Resistência Nacional Moçambicana (Renamo) forces...

Changes at the top of state petroleum company Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH) and the industry regulator Instituto Nacional de Petróleo (INP) mark a further step in President Filipe Nyusi's bid to assert his authority and break from the networks created by his predecessor Armando Guebuza...

However we hear that President Filipe Nyusi's new government in Mozambique is putting several Chinese-backed contracts agreed under his predecessor Armando Guebuza on hold while their terms are reviewed...