Armando Emílio Guebuza

The man who increasingly looks like Mozambique's next leader Armando Guebuza the presidential candidate of the ruling Frelimo party (formerly Frente de Libertação Moçambicana) is distancing himself from the current leader President Joaquim Chissano...

Frelimo the ruling party once known as the Frente de Libertação de Moçambique has named Armando Guebuza as its Secretary General and presidential candidate for the 2004 election (AC Vol 43 No 4)...

Machel competes for the candidacy against former Interior Minister Armando Guebuza leading a Frelimo faction and Agriculture Minister Helder Muteia leading a younger Frelimo faction...

One of Frelimo's two main factions is led by Armando Guebuza (58) once Interior Minister and the army's Political Commissar now a prosperous businessman with ambitions to run the country...

Broadly one main tendency is around Chissano and largely in government the other is around Armando Guebuza and largely in parliament...

The other Frelimo people on the Assembly's Standing Commission are Veronica Macamo (first deputy Speaker) Armando Guebuza (head of Frelimo's parliamentary group and strongly tipped to succeed Chissano as party leader) Teodato Hunguana Margarida Talapa Bonifacio Gruveta Mateus Katupha and Sergio Vieira...

One of Mozambique's most powerful men is still Armando Guebuza Frelimo's veteran parliamentary leader whose independent financial means give him confidence to challenge even Chissano...