Vol 52 No 19 | MOZAMBIQUE By-election business 23rd September 2011 The resignation of three Frente de Libertação de Moçambique mayors is raising strong political interest, as well as the hopes of opposition parties, in the by-elections set for 7 D...
Vol 52 No 18 | MOZAMBIQUE Taking a stake in economic development 9th September 2011 Presidential friends edge out Frelimo’s friends Since Armando Emílio Guebuza won the presidential election in 2006, more and more members of his circle have obtained stakes in the economy and partnerships with foreign businesses...
Vol 52 No 18 | MOZAMBIQUE Celso Correia, favourite son 9th September 2011 At the age of 30, Celso Correia became the head of Mozambique’s second largest bank, the Banco Comercial e de Investimentos (BCI), and of the strategic northern transport corridor,...
Vol 52 No 18 | LIBYAMOZAMBIQUESUDANUNITED KINGDOM Lobbying on 9th September 2011 Just as Mozambique’s Resistência Nacional Moçambicana threatens to return to violence, the man who championed it at the height of its atrocities has surfaced in papers found in the...
Vol 52 No 17 | MOZAMBIQUE Renamo threatens a return to violence 26th August 2011 As it regroups to take on Frelimo in 2014, the former armed opposition talks of a return to the military option In a chilling echo of history, Afonso Dhlakama, the leader of the biggest opposition party, the Resistência Nacional Moçambicana, has been threatening armed resistance against the ...
Vol 52 No 11 | MOZAMBIQUE Coal train blues 27th May 2011 Vast coal mines are ready to export millions of tonnes to Asia but disputes over transport and contracts are holding back the trade Mining companies with a stake in Mozambique’s 23 billion tonnes of coal reserves are seeking alternative export routes to Asia because of disputes between the government and Indian...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 4 | MOZAMBIQUEASIA It’s mine 28th February 2011 Asian mining companies, from India’s state-owned giants to the opaque China International Fund, are taking up their positions for Mozambique’s great mining rush. The Indian governm...
Vol 51 No 18 | MOZAMBIQUE The President is for turning 10th September 2010 The people’s protests against ruinous rises in food prices may have ended Guebuza’s efforts to extend his rule A week of street demonstrations has checked the confidence of the ruling Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo). After describing a 30% rise in bread prices as ‘irreversible’...
Vol 51 No 18 | MOZAMBIQUE The real cost of Maputo’s aid 10th September 2010 Mozambique receives more aid per head than neighbouring – and similar – countries like Malawi and Tanzania. This is partly because of its long-past ‘post-conflict status’ but also ...
Vol 51 No 6 | MOZAMBIQUE Aid strike in Maputo 19th March 2010 Relations between President Guebuza’s government and the West are deteriorating fast – that will mean less aid Diplomats and foreign aid organisations are due to meet in Maputo on 19 March to decide whether to call off what amounts to an aid strike against President Armando Guebuza’s govern...