10.8.14

Moçambique vai ter um maconde na Presidência

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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