Joaquim Alberto Chissano

It was leaked that a group of senior party members close to ex-President Joaquim Chissano and other grandees of the early Independence era under the late President Samora Machel had lodged a formal complaint with the Central Committee's Verification Committee...

This also applies to President Armando Guebuza's predecessor Joaquim Chissano whose return to power has also been mooted by party members fed up with the current leadership...

That was a major achievement of the governments of former President Joaquim Chissano...

Former President Joaquim Chissano among the moderates argues strongly that Renamo must have a stake in the peace to maintain stability...

Old-guard critics of Guebuza's authoritarianism – among them Marcelino dos Santos and supporters of Joaquim Chissano's and Graça Machel's factions – could block Guebuza's nominee...

The Southern African Development Community panel set up to study the issue under Mozambique's ex-President Joaquim Chissanohas has heard Malawi's argument on why the border should not change...

President Joaquim Chissano angered old allies Angola Namibia and Zimbabwe by refusing to take part in the last intervention citing his country’s experience of foreign involvement in its devastating civil war...

Machel’s group came out of the Congress considerably weakened and ex-President Joaquim Chissano’s faction also failed to register but this only means that a realignment of factions may be under way...

That would be unprecedented although Guebuza’s predecessor Joaquim Chissano who stepped aside in 2005 briefly held on as party President until Guebuza squeezed him out...

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...