Mozambique: Can Mozambique’s March to Authoritarianism Be Stopped?

With outside attention focused on violent extremism and gas exports, Mozambique’s democratic backsliding is proceeding apace.

In his first three years after becoming president in 2015, Filipe Nyusi’s governance led Mozambique to fall in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index from a hybrid regime to an authoritarian one.

A hybrid government combines democratic traits such as frequent and direct elections, with autocratic ones such as political repression. An authoritarian system is…