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Significance
The most immediate issue is the choice of candidates both for the ruling Frelimo party, as President Filipe Nyusi comes to the end of his constitutionally final second term, and the main opposition Renamo party, where several challengers want to remove party leader Ossufo Momade.
Impacts
Frelimo will start informally campaigning for the election early, likely as soon as its flagbearer is selected, which should be by March.
The insurgency in Cabo Delgado Mozambique has regained much impetus in January, ending optimism about the war ending soon.
TotalEnergies is expected to announce the restart of its multi-billion-dollar LNG project in the first quarter of the year.
Keywords:
Mozambique,
AF,
politics,
social,
corruption,
election,
government,
opposition,
party,
protest
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