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Luis Nhachote, The Continent

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Luis Nhachote is an award-winning investigative journalist, editor and researcher, specialising in organised crime and the extractive industries

Mozambique President Elect Daniel Chapo. (Alfredo Zuniga/AFP via Getty Images)

Mozambique election: Frelimo’s Daniel Chapo declared election winner amid tension

The party that has ruled Mozambique since 1975 remains popular

‘Dead or alive’: Bonomade Machude Omar (far left) as illustrated by Mozambican artist Dionisio Matavele/The Continent

The end of Cabo Delgado’s most wanted man

Bonomade Machude Omar was one of the leaders of the insurgency that has sought to impose Islamic law in the north of Mozambique

Guebuza junior was found to have received $33 million to “move influence” with his father, and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. He intends to appeal. There is no word yet on whether his father will also be charged. Photo: Supplied

Son of former Mozambique president sentenced to 12 years in prison

No Credit Suisse executives have faced criminal prosecution, despite the company admitting liability

Displaced: Families from Cabo Delgado flee insurgents on 14 June 2022. Poverty can lead to political extremism. Photo: Alfredo Zuniga/AFP

Mozambique: Collapse of cotton may unravel fragile social fabric of Cabo Delgado

First came the insurgency. Then the humanitarian crisis. Now the remaining residents of Cabo Delgado are facing economic ruin

Peace activist: Rwandan musician Kizito Mihigo, who tried to flee Rwanda, died in a police cell on 17 February 2020, days after his arrest

Rwanda refugees fear extradition from Mozambique

Mozambique and Rwanda’s new deal comes after 19 people ‘agreed’ to return home

Pemba, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique

Cabo Delgado’s hungry refugees are running out of places to run

Insurgents have moved into villages that used to be safe, forcing people to flee. That instability is driving widespread hunger

Soldiers patrol in front of a burned truck carrying the inscription “Shabaab Chinja” referring to the jihadist group in Mocimboa da Praia. (Photo by Simon Wohlfahrt/AFP)

Faltering insurgency in Mozambique still threatens lives – and gas projects

Instability around crucial projects leaves them stalled, while Frelimo’s inability to accept its leadership failures is preventing long-term solutions to the conflict

Kigali’s bilateral agreements with Maputo and Bangui are underpinned by mining ventures. Photo: Simon Wohlfahrt/AFP

Rwanda eyes the spoils of war in Mozambique

When Rwanda sent its army to help Mozambique fight the insurgency in the north, many wondered what it might be getting in return for its largesse

Mozambique’s former president Armando Guebuza. (AFP)

Former Mozambican president takes the stand

Former president Armando Guebuza gave evidence in a corruption trial that has transfixed the nation

On guard: Rwandan soldiers patrol the Afungi Peninsula in the Palma district of Cabo Delgado province, near Total’s liquid natural gas facility. A contingent of a thousand Rwandan soldiers have, since July 2021, been in Mozambique to fight insurgents. (Simon Wohlfahrt/AFP)

Bonomado Machude Omar, Mozambique’s most wanted man

The leader of the insurgency in the country’s northern Cabo Delgado province is described as ‘sinister and brutal’ but ‘with a sense of justice’

Soldiers patrol in front of a burned truck carrying the inscription “Shabaab Chinja” referring to the jihadist group in Mocimboa da Praia. (Photo by Simon Wohlfahrt/AFP)

War in Mozambique follows those who fled from the coast

With regional forces retaking Cabo Delgado, insurgents turn their attention inland

Soldiers patrol in front of a burned truck carrying the inscription “Shabaab Chinja” referring to the jihadist group in Mocimboa da Praia. (Photo by Simon Wohlfahrt/AFP)

Mozambique’s Rapale camp: A transit to nowhere

The strife in Cabo Delgado has displaced more than 800 000 people. Some have found their way to the Rapale transit centre, where they are struggling to survive as foreign and…

Lifeline cut: Many people in Cabo Delgado relied on Western Union’s money transfer services. (John Wessels/AFP/Getty Images)

Western Union suspends services in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado

It is now considerably more difficult for Mozambicans in the conflict-hit province to use financial services

A Rwandan court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by a prominent opposition figure to have his previous convictions removed, disqualifying him from challenging President Paul Kagame in July elections.

Kagame: Rwanda is paying for the Cabo Delgado intervention’

Responding to widespread claims that France is funding Rwandan forces, the president says ‘no one is sponsoring’ his army

Cabo Delgado is a warzone, but profiteers strike it rich

But anger over human rights abuses in the ruby-rich province fuels resentment and insurgency

Amnesty International has released a report that implicates Al-Shabaab, the military and mercenaries in atrocities in Cabo Delgado province. (Photo by ADRIEN BARBIER / AFP)

‘Beheadings’: Aid workers wait for visas as violence intensifies in Mozambique

Amnesty International has released a report that implicates Al-Shabaab, the military and mercenaries in atrocities in Cabo Delgado province

The news of Baby Awa’s birth was greeted with joy across the country, which has grown weary of the bad news coming from the north. (Supplied)

Baby Awa: The miracle baby born on a boat fleeing Mozambique’s violence

More than 300 000 people in the north of the country have been displaced by militants who ransack villages and then burn them down.

Parliament has ignored an overwhelming number of submissions made by the public into the controversial Traditional Courts Bill.

Moz set to seize pirate fishing ship

The vessel has looted millions of rands’ worth of fish in a decade-long onslaught on the ocean.

Mozambique’s ‘Mr Guebusiness’

Mozambique’s ‘Mr Guebusiness’

The tentacles of Mozambican President Armando Emilio Guebuza’s huge family business empire make Zuma Incorporated look like a spaza-shop operation.