Filipe Jacinto Nyusi

As the austere consequences of an International Monetary Fund emergency loan sink into public consciousness Filipe Nyusi is still struggling to gain the control that election as President should have given him over party and state...

President Filipe Nyusi's government wants to rebuild trust with the Fund which has decided to stay and give the government a final chance...

The government has decided to 'disarm' Resistência Nacional Moçambicana in what is being seen as a victory for hardliners over President Filipe Nyusi's previous conciliatory approach...

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...

In order to maintain the Fund's approval President Filipe Nyusi's government is to put all projects priced at over $50 mn...

New President Filipe Nyusi and his allies are conscious of the risk that their economic resuscitation plan could be diverted by a drawn-out post-mortem on the Guebuza era not to mention the political ructions that could surface...

Anger about the police has been building and public expectations of radical action by President Filipe Nyusi's government are high...

President Filipe Nyusi's new era – a decisive break with the policies and personalities of ex-President Armando Guebuza – has begun with an apparent financial disaster...

Ex-President Armando Guebuza has resigned from the presidency of the governing Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) having lost his power struggle with his successor as national President Filipe Nyusi (AC Vol 56 No 5 A shot at devolution)...