Adriano Afonso Maleiane

Current Finance Minister Adriano Maleiane headed BNI until taking up his ministerial post in 2015 and we hear was pushing hard for BNI subsequently to be hired as Mozambique's advisor in negotiations with creditors a role eventually taken up by international financial advisory company Lazard...

Finance Minister Adriano Maleiane revealed on 25 October that Mozambique's debt levels are officially unsustainable inflation is at 25% and rising and the metical has fallen 70% against the US dollar in 2016 alone...

Finance Minister Adriano Maleiane is hardly in better odour his fabled competence appearing less than advertised and his reputed integrity questioned by Mozambicans who accuse him of playing a key role in the continued concealment of the hidden loans...

Finance Minister Adriano Maleiane who struggles on despite losing considerable credibility has even suggested that the Banco Nacional de Investimento conduct the audit say sources close to the Finance Ministry...

After Finance Minister Adriano Maleiane confessed in Parliament last week that the government could not cover a major loan repayment due on 23 May a sovereign default looks likely...

Carrying the can of worms Many Maputo insiders see Finance Minister Adriano Maleiane's contortions over the loans crisis as one of the longest political suicides in history...

Misplaced FaithThe IMF's faith in the momentum around Mozambique as the rising star of the region was not easily shaken and it was with some naivety that they then placed their hopes on the reputed integrity of Nyusi's new Finance Minister Adriano Maleiane...

The default option The revelation that Mozambique owes far more in dodgy loans than first realised made miserable news for Finance Minister Adriano Maleiane when he came to Washington this week for the IMF bi-annual meetings...

Nyusi and Finance Minister Adriano Maleiane blame external factors namely the crash in commodity prices a strong US dollar and reduced general budget support from donors a theme that most major media picked up...

On 18 June Finance Minister Adriano Maleiane confessed to Parliament that the US$850 million bond the government is backing was a bad deal and needed restructuring (AC Vol 56 No 12 How far to push Guebuza)...

The new Minister of Economy and Finance Adriano Maleiane is demanding answers from Guebuza's government and in particular from ex-Finance Minister Manuel Chang we hear (AC Vol 56 No 2 New cabinet brooms and Vol 54 No 22 The mystery ship deal)...