Tag: #Succession Battle

The Mozambican Frelimo ruling party has been unable to choose its flag bearer for the October 2024 presidential elections. The current president, Filipe Nyusi, is set to step down in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Political Commission of Mozambique’s ruling Frelimo party has begun circulating the agenda for its Central Committee meeting, which will be held in Maputo on 5-6 April. However, absent from ...

The Political Commission of Mozambique’s Frelimo ruling party met on Thursday and contrary to expectations, it did not divulge its much-awaited short-list of candidates who will put their names up ...

Mozambique’s Frelimo ruling party is expected to meet on Thursday to produce its short-list of candidates who will vye internally for the position of party presidential nominee for the October ...

The succession within the ruling Frelimo party is still an unknown. President Filipe Nyusi and Frelimo’s Secretary-General, Roque Silva, seem to have cemented their hold and power over the party. ...