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Tanzania aims to rebuild Mozambique ties

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MOZAMBIQUE/TANZANIA

She aims to build on long-standing bilateral political ties and to manage perceptions around the role Tanzania can play in challenging the jihadist insurgency in Mozambique’s Cabo…

Mozambique's FRELIMO faces military intervention push

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MOZAMBIQUE

Oil and gas major Total has suspended work on its nearby liquefied natural gas (LNG) site, while a humanitarian crisis has worsened. Pressure for an external military intervention…

Multiple crises threaten Mozambican gas dividends

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MOZAMBIQUE

Meanwhile, a recent court decision surrounding a long-running debt scandal will make it more difficult for Maputo to secure external budgetary support and ensure that state-owned…

Attacks in Mozambique's central provinces will persist

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MOZAMBIQUE

While domestic and international attention is focused on insecurity in northern Cabo Delgado province, attacks by the Junta, which claims RENAMO’s leadership was illegitimately…

Escalating insurgency pressures Mozambican government

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MOZAMBIQUE

Fears are growing that attacks could spread into surrounding provinces, after already expanding into neighbouring Tanzania.

South Africa will struggle to tame xenophobic violence

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SOUTH AFRICA

Some twelve people have now been killed in related unrest over the past week, principally in Gauteng province, with over 400 individuals arrested. Foreign-born Africans and their…

Disputed Zimbabwe poll will delay re-engagement

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ZIMBABWE

Mnangagwa narrowly avoided a second-round run-off with 50.8% of the vote, but opposition presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance…

Lesotho’s political crisis may complicate reform plans

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LESOTHO

The investigation and related revelations have ratcheted up pressure on the prime minister, triggering a political crisis in the small, strife-torn nation. This has worsened…

Rising violence risks deepening Burkinabe fault lines

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BURKINA FASO

The attacks targeting ethnic Peulh (Fulani) communities have been attributed to the ethnic Mossi-dominated 'Koglweogo' (Guardians of the Bush) vigilante group, in the latest…

Brazil's fiscal crunch will worsen Rio crime crisis

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BRAZIL

Deteriorating crime levels in Rio de Janeiro.