Vol 45 No 25 | MOZAMBIQUE Guebuza's day 17th December 2004 Frelimo has won a huge but tarnished victory in this month's elections The result was not quite what Mozambique's young, post-war generation would have hoped for. President-elect Armando Emilio Guebuza, poised to succeed Joaquim Chissano after the ele...
Vol 45 No 25 | MOZAMBIQUE Man with a past 17th December 2004 Armando Emilio Guebuza (61), from Nampula, was associated with the worst abuses of Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo). As Interior Minister during th...
Vol 45 No 25 | ANGOLA Boom boom, China's coming 17th December 2004 Production is soaring, prices are up and Luanda is finding new friends With all the world betting on high oil prices, Angola's post-war economy is set to boom and to boost its soaring trade with China. The Finance Ministry credibly forecasts growth of...
Vol 45 No 25 | NAMIBIA Correction 17th December 2004 In our Namibia feature 'Sam's successor' (AC Vol 45 No 24) we described the United Democratic Front as a 'former DTA component'. The UDF had an alliance with the Democratic Turnhal...
Vol 45 No 24 | ANGOLA Election, what election? 3rd December 2004 With money and political dominance, the MPLA isn't rushing to the polls After the war, democracy and prosperity. That was the mantra during three decades of war between the MPLA and UNITA. The reality is different. The victorious Movimento Popular de L...
Vol 45 No 24 | ANGOLA There's money in reconstruction, if you have friends 3rd December 2004 In the multi-million dollar post-war reconstruction business, the competition - political as well as commercial - is stiff. Job Capapinha has been brought in to replace Higino Carn...
Vol 45 No 24 | NAMIBIA Sam's successor 3rd December 2004 The new President will have to work hard to convince people that he is his own man President-elect Hifikepunye Pohamba's first test will be to address opposition claims about the running of the 15-16 November election which gave him 76 per cent of the vote. Oppos...
Vol 45 No 24 | ZIMBABWE Bye-bye, Moyo 3rd December 2004 A purge is coming, in preparation for the 2005 elections and, one day, the departure of President Robert Mugabe. The President's faction of his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patr...
Vol 45 No 24 | MALAWI Bingu ascendant 3rd December 2004 The rift between the United Democratic Front (UDF) government and the party continues to deepen. Investigating corruption in the former regime gives President Bingu wa Mutharika th...
Vol 45 No 23 | ZIMBABWE Gunning for Number 2 19th November 2004 Parliamentary Speaker Emmerson Mnangagwa stakes a claim to the succession Feared and unpopular he may be but Parliamentary Speaker Emmerson Mnangagwa has now revealed himself to be a serious contender for the vacant vice-presidency. What is most remarkab...