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Isis is not driving the Cabo Delgado war

Africa Joseph Hanlon - 25 Aug 2020

Can Frelimo and its backers continue to profit from a failing state while an armed insurgency rages in northern Mozambique? And will South Africa help prop them up?

Third time lucky: Will Mozambique’s peace deal last?

Africa Alex Vines - 6 Aug 2020

It’s been a year since Frelimo and Renamo signed the Maputo Accord. This time, the peace might just hold

The SADC will regret its approach to Mozambique’s insurgence

Africa Webster Zambara & Annah Moyo-Kupeta - 13 Jul 2020

The SADC has been lackadaisical in its response to the insurgency in Mozambique and in so doing, is putting several other southern African countries at risk

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Making sense of Mozambique’s brutal insurgency

Africa Paolo Israel - 4 May 2020

The violence in Cabo Delgado province by al-Shabaab (the youth) can be linked to jihadist influence, the continued marginalisation of Muslim people, and the lure of income from trafficking natural resources

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Mozambique’s government-industrial complex

Africa Mark Anderson & Khadija Sharife - 5 Feb 2020

Dangerously close links between government officials and the private sector encourage corruption

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Mozambique votes in tense election after violent campaign

Africa Philippe Alfroy - 15 Oct 2019

The Frelimo party, which has ruled thenation since independence in 1975, is widely expected to again beat its former civil war foe Renamo

Mozambique braces for high stakes poll

Africa Simon Allison - 11 Oct 2019

High levels of violence are expected in the run-up to the October 15 general elections

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Hope, peace and reconciliation: Pope Francis in Mozambique

Africa Alex Vines - 4 Sep 2019

A papal visit will highlight the importance of the recently signed peace agreement between the government and opposition

Mozambique rivals sign peace deal

Africa Staff Reporter - 8 Aug 2019

The leaders of Renamo and Frelimo hail the ‘new era’ ending clashes between the two since 2013

Third time lucky for peace in Mozambique?

Africa Alex Vines - 7 Aug 2019

Renamo’s hardened fighters are not getting any younger, so this time the deal may stick

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Why SA extradited Chang to Mozambique rather than the US

Article Fredson Guilenge - 10 Jun 2019

Bundling him off to the US would threaten Mozambique’s security and spoil the pan-Africanist agenda

Mozambique’s financial scandal may get even bigger

Africa Deutsche Welle 1 - 31 Jan 2019

Mozambique's parliament has lifted immunity for its ex-finance minister Manuel Chang, detained in SA on a US-issued international arrest warrant.

Africa is being colonised all over again

Article Staff Reporter - 23 Jan 2019

'We have failed to hold our African leaders to account,' writes Mustafa Bothwell Mheta

Mozambique ruling party grapples with state debt scandal

Africa Staff Reporter - 17 Jan 2019

Former Mozambican finance minister Manuel Chang's arrest at has triggered a political crisis ahead of the country's elections later this year

Court backs arrest of Mozambique ex-minister

Article Agency - 9 Jan 2019

Since Manuel Chang's arrest on December 29, three former employees of Credit Suisse bank have been arrested in London for possible extradition

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