While professing ignorance in his testimony of details of the maritime projects and the beneficiaries of the finance he managed nonetheless to lay blame at the door of Nyusi's predecessor President Armando Guebuza and his group...

The prosecution in the trial of 19 people accused of profiting from the $2 billion in hidden loans closed on 18 February with testimony from its most illustrious witness yet ex-President Armando Guebuza...

That trial is widely viewed as political theatre designed to pin all the blame on scapegoats allied with former President Armando Guebuza with whom Nyusi is on less than cordial terms (AC Vol 62 No 22 Probe focus shifts to Nyusi)...

In what Frelimo and civil society sources are describing as a 'political trial ' with the selected 19 from the camp of former President Armando Guebuza it is unclear whether Do Rosario was persuaded to make a deal and withhold the most damning evidence or had merely been bluffing all along...

Documents in evidence show his involvement in the planning and approval of the projects contradicting his claims that he had little knowledge of them – a stance that has especially angered former President Armando Guebuza...

Some including the elder son of former President Armando Guebuza Ndambi have been in prison without bail since February 2019 (AC Vol 61 No 18 Credit Suisse names Guebuza)...

Before he was Nyusi's right-hand man Correia performed the same role for ex-President Armando Guebuza...

Last year it added ex-President Armando Guebuza to the suit...

The previous president Armando Guebuza was also unpopular and beset by accusations of corruption but unlike Nyusi he was able to consolidate his position more effectively and – protected by well-placed allies – stay out of the reputational and legal firing line after leaving office...