Filipe Jacinto Nyusi

President Filipe Nyusi hopes to yoke the ruling Frente de Libertação de Moçambique to his bid to change the constitution so he can have a third term of office...

Dos Santos divides in death Foreign dignitaries flew in including the presidents of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Mozambique Filipe Nyusi to honour the memory of President José Eduardo dos Santos whose state funeral took place four days after polling in the general election closed...

President Filipe Nyusi is believed to be using delaying tactics to minimise disclosure of his role in Mozambique's $2 billion hidden loans scheme as the ruling Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) prepares for its key annual congress in September (AC Vol 63 No 8)...

President Filipe Nyusi has been handing out rewards ahead of the ruling Frente de Libertaçao de Moçambique (Frelimo) party congress in September to proven loyalists from his home region of Mueda Cabo Delgado in the national intelligence service Serviço de Informação e Segurança do Estado...

After Kagame ended his trip to Kampala Museveni hosted Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi and his Defence Minister Cristovão Chume stating that the UPDF was ready to deploy to Cabo Delgado where the RDF currently has up to 2000 troops...

Now the proceedings against those charged with beggaring Mozambique's future by covertly borrowing US$2 billion are over the main question is how far the public airing of the deepest secrets of the ruling elite will damage the reputation of President Filipe Nyusi (AC Vol 62 No 18 Mega fraud trial grips nation)...

RESHUFFLE MIXES CREDIBLE FACES AND USUAL SUSPECTS President Filipe Nyusi reshuffled half of his cabinet just as the trial of 19 people accused of illegally taking out US$2 billion in secret loans was winding up...

As expected Guebuza put all the blame on President Filipe Nyusi (AC Vol 62 No 18 Mega fraud trial grips nation & Vol 62 No 19 The President did it)...

This was followed by President Filipe Nyusi flying to Brussels to lobby for EU funding for both projects...

Another troubled year is in store for President Filipe Nyusi as his unpopularity in the ruling Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) grows due to his deep involvement in the US$2 billion hidden loans debacle (AC Vol 62 No 18 Mega fraud trial grips nation) and his failure to resolve the security crisis in the north...

SECRET LOANS EXACT A POLITICAL PRICE President Filipe Nyusi's involvement in and subsequent handling of the US$2 billion hidden loans scandal will shape his party's judgment of him...

These include current president Filipe Nyusi whose signature appears on key documents approving the projects and loans contracted when he was defence minister...