Joaquim Alberto Chissano

Last June Mozambique's ex-President Joaquim Chissano became Dlamini-Zuma's Envoy to the Sahara prompting Mezouar's recent angry letter to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon which rejected any AU involvement...

New Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosário previously Ambassador to Indonesia and Timor-Leste was last a minister under Joaquim Chissano...

Even Luísa Dias Diogo his biggest rival for the presidential nomination and a former Prime Minister has pledged her backing as has ex-President Joaquim Chissano...

After appearing live on television at a Frelimo gathering – attended by party luminaries including ex-Prime Minister Luisa Diogo and former President Joaquim Chissano – declaring his support for Nyusi in a visible state of confusion Dos Santos claimed that he had been 'kidnapped' by the party under false pretences and had no choice but to play along...

The factions most hostile to Guebuza are reaching out to Nyusi including former President Joaquim Chissano and elder stateswoman Graça Machel...

Nyusi has been conciliatory to all the major Frelimo factions including that of former President Joaquim Chissano and has rallied the party behind him...

The council is an advisory body mandated under the constitution to advise the President on matters of national sovereignty and security and includes Muchunga as well as Dhlakama (who has not attended since April 2013) and high dignitaries like former President Joaquim Chissano...

In 1997 alongside Mozambique's then President Joaquim Chissano she won the African Leadership and Sustainable End of Hunger prize from the United States-based Hunger Project...

The vote that may have decided the head of state leader for the next five or ten years came down to a battle between Guebuza's faction and that of ex-President Joaquim Chissano...

She also has the backing of ex-President Joaquim Chissano and Graça Machel widow of South Africa's Nelson Mandela and of Founding President Samora Machel...