President Filipe Nyusi is under heavy pressure to finally accept foreign military intervention to quash the escalating insurgency in the northern province of Cabo Delgado...

It highlights the hollowness of assurances from President Filipe Nyusi who hails from the region and is a former defence minister that his country's armed forces had the situation under control...

The new commanders have been reshuffled from old positions as President Filipe Nyusi ensures men loyal to him are in charge...

In January Safa issued details of payments made to President Filipe Nyusi when he was Minister of Defence in 2013 (AC Dispatches More woe for President Nyusi as shipbuilder Safa drags him into $2 billion secret loan scandal)...

General Eugenio Mussa's death on 8 February from Covid-19 just three weeks after his appointment as Chief of the Armed Forces is a major blow to President Filipe Nyusi who appointed him in place of a more respected general because he thought he would be more malleable sources in Maputo say (AC Vol 62 No 3 Nyusi's loyalty test)...

President Filipe Nyusi has reshuffled the military command while troops retrain and re-equip with new supplies to help meet the rebel threat in Cabo Delgado according to local security sources...

The chief concern of President Filipe Nyusi in the year ahead is the same that will take up most of the rest of his final term of office – influencing the choice of the ruling Frente de Libertaçao de Moçambique's presidential candidate so that he is safe from future prosecution for corruption...

President Filipe Nyusi's grip on the problem has come increasingly into question from northern Makonde sections of the FADM and the ruling Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) who never had a high opinion of him as defence minister and we hear are content to see him swamped by the security problems regardless of the high cost...

One private military contractor close to the government told Africa Confidential that President Filipe Nyusi's government – Nyusi is from Cabo Delgado and very close to the Makonde generals who have been running it – is anxious not to involve regional forces in the province because of the risk of losing control...