Formers Mozambican and the ruling Frelimo party presidents, Joaquim Chissano and Armando Guebuza, have not been formally invited to Friday’s Central Committee decisive meeting, party insiders told Mozambique Insights. Frelimo...

Formers Mozambican presidents Armando Guebuza and Joaquim Chissano have demanded that the ruling Frelimo party’s Central Committee meeting should end on Saturday with President Filipe Nyusi’s successor already known. Barring...

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday urged the country to reflect on the country’s electoral system, saying that it is costly. Nyusi was speaking at the opening of the national...

The chairperson of Mozambique’s ruling Frelimo party, Filipe Nyusi, faced an open challenge to address a pressing concern for both the party and the nation: the inclusion of plans for...

Venâncio Mondlane, head of list and the candidate for Mayor of Maputo in last year’s municipal elections, and member of parliament for Mozambique’s main opposition party Renamo, has said that...

The secretary-general of the Mozambican Youth Organisation (OJM), the youth league of the ruling Frelimo party, Silva Livone, in a statement seemingly devoid of irony, called for a successor to...

Samora Machel Jr (“Samito”), son of Mozambique’s first president, Samora Machel, is said to have decided to throw his hat in the ring of would-be flagbearers for the ruling Frelimo...

A lawyer and member of the ruling Frelimo party Central Committee, Teodoro Waty, has denounced what he calls a climate of fear, heightened tension and of spying among party members...

Mozambique’s ruling Frelimo party is in the midst of the most mysterious and secretive presidential succession battle since the advent of democracy. With Filipe Nyusi, Frelimo and Mozambique’s president, due...

The Secretary-General of Mozambique’s Association of Veterans of the National Liberation Struggle (ACLLN), Fernando Faustino, has acknowledged that the succession process in the ruling Frelimo party is quite complex, but...