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Filipe Nyusi tailors himself a made-to-measure defence ministry

Inaugurated on 15 January following his re-election by a landslide three months ago, President Filipe Nyusi has had time to [...] (224 words)

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Amade Miquidade
Atanásio Salvador Mtumuke
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Filipe Nyusi opts to remain discreet over Cabo Delgado

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Filipe Nyusi gears up for cabinet reshuffle

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MOZAMBIQUE Politics 22/02/2019

Filipe Nyusi moves to contain fallout from disgrace of Guebuza clan

Since the recent arrests in Maputo of Armando Guebuza's former personal advisor, Maria Ines Moiane Dove, and then of his 43-year-old eldest son, Armando Ndambi Guebuza, the clan of the Mozambican ex-president is feeling the full force of the law. [...]

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