The head of the Frelimo liberation veterans’ association today told a meeting of the party’s Central Committee that it has become “an electoral machine” rather than being driven by ideas – and warned the party cannot count on winning elections in the centre and north of the country. Frelimo needs to “wake up from its…...

Former Presidents Armando Guebuza and Joaquim Chissano at a Frelimo Central Committee meeting in Maputo on 26 May 2017. Photo © Alexandre Nhampossa / Zitamar News