Musical chairs in Nyusi's government ahead of crucial Frelimo Congress later this year
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Filipe Nyusi completed the biggest reshuffle of his presidency on Thursday, naming Adriano Maleiane as the new Prime Minister, and promoting energy minister Max Tonela to replace Maleiane at the finance ministry.
A number of other ministers were also moved, but Celso Correia, believed to be Nyusi’s first choice for prime minister, instead stayed in position at the agriculture ministry.
The reshuffle comes in the context of an increasingly tense atmosphere within the ruling party Frelimo, which is due to decide later this year on who will be its presidential candidate at the next elections in 2024.
Leading Mozambican journalist and political analyst Fernando Lima joined Zitamar editor Tom Bowker this evening to talk through the changes.
