As elections approach, money and favours change hands
and the gas boom unleashes a torrent of competing companies and
politicians
With the
race underway to exploit the massive gas reserves off the coast of Cabo Delgado
and Nampula provinces, economic power and now political power is shifting
northwards. That was one reason why Fillipe
Jacinto Nyussi, the current Defence Minister who was born in Cabo
Delgado (foto), was chosen as the presidential candidate of the governing Frente de Libertação de Moçambique for the
October elections (AC Vol 55 No 5, Frelimo picks a candidate). The candidacy of Nyussi, a modest
man with little charisma, was backed by former Defence Minister General Alberto Chipande, the grand old man of the
liberation struggle and of the Makonde people. Nyussi, also Makonde, is the
first northerner to lead Frelimo. Africa Confidential 
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