Filipe Jacinto Nyusi

A crucial series of Frelimo Central Committee meetings are due to take place between 21 and 24 April; they are President Filipe Nyusi's last chance to show party members and the public he is serious about confronting the corruption and impunity of the party's old guard pundits in Maputo are saying...

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...

The state appears divided between the old-guard of the governing Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) which is determined not to make concessions to Renamo and President Filipe Nyusi who favours negotiation (AC Vol 57 No 1 Make or break for Nyusi)...

If President Filipe Nyusi thought 2015 would be his toughest year 2016 may prove him wrong...

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...