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Mozambique: A donor darling again?

In the twilight of Filipe Nyusi’s presidency, Mozambique is coming in from the cold internationally — having been cast out in 2016 in the wake of the revelations around the ‘hidden debts’

President Filipe Nyusi with the President of the Swiss Federation, Alain Berset, at the UN headquarters in New York this week

Good afternoon. In the twilight of Filipe Nyusi’s presidency, Mozambique is coming in from the cold internationally — having been cast out in 2016 in the wake of the revelations around the ‘hidden debts’. In today’s Leader article, below, we look at a recent wave of visitors and ask: is Mozambique becoming a donor darling again?

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