The rise of Filipe Nyussi as the presidential candidate of the ruling Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO) party in national elections on 15 October augured an historic change for the country.
Nyussi, who won a bitter succession battle in March, is the country's
first northern president after decades of southern domination. Backed
by FRELIMO's formidable election machinery, he took 61.7% of the vote.Nyussi is a low-profile figure close to out-going president Armando Guebuza, who will step down after his two terms.
Aged 55 and representing a generational succession for FRELIMO as the first leader that did not fight in the country's civil war from 1977 to 1992, Nyussi has strong connections to the party's liberation aristocracy.
Both of his parents were FRELIMO members during the war for independence and he was raised in exile in Tanzania.
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