Filipe Jacinto Nyusi

Projections based on early results predicted Frelimo presidential contender Filipe Nyusi would win with 60% with Resistência Nacional Moçambicana (Renamo) candidate Afonso Dhlakama taking 32% and the Movimento Democrático de Moçambique's Daviz Simango 8% according to the Mozambique Political Process Bulletin...

All the signs point to victory for Frente de Libertação de Moçambique presidential candidate Filipe Nyusi in the polls on 15 October but the outcome of the parliamentary contest is much less certain for the party which has ruled since Independence in 1975...

To avoid a tricky second round Filipe Nyusi must poll more than 50% of the votes: in a run-off he would face a united anti-Frelimo vote which is currently split between Afonso Dhlakama's Resistência Nacional Moçambicana (Renamo) and Daviz Simango's Movimento Democrático de Moçambique (MDM)...

The appearance of Mohammed Bashir Suleiman – designated a 'drugs kingpin' by the United States – at the banquet of a local business association on 18 September has infuriated friends of Filipe Nyusi presidential candidate of the governing Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (AC Vol 55 No 5 Frelimo picks a candidate)...

The veteran Renamo boss is campaigning effectively against Frelimo's presidential candidate Filipe Nyusi whose slogan of continuity has not gained traction from a public interested in change...

Defence Minister and Frelimo presidential candidate Filipe Nyusi belligerently defended the manoeuvres by claiming that the FADM should be able to exercise wherever and whenever it wanted...

That was one reason why Filipe Jacinto Nyusi who was born in Cabo Delgado was chosen as the presidential candidate of the governing Frente de Libertação de Moçambique for the October elections (AC Vol 55 No 5 Frelimo picks a candidate)...

Alberto Chipande reputedly Mozambique's most influential general and a key backer of Frelimo's presidential candidate Filipe Nyusi...

The meeting was to draw up the political platform on which Frelimo's presidential candidate Filipe Jacinto Nyusi will stand...

After more than a year of uncertainty and speculation the party in power has finally chosen the Defence Minister Filipe Jacinto Nyusi as its presidential candidate for the October election...

President Armando Guebuza's attempt to impose his shortlist – Agriculture Minister José Pacheco Defence Minister Filipe Nyusi and Prime Minister Alberto Vaquina – has failed...