Born in Nacala province in January 1943 but lived in the capital from the age of six, Armando Guebuza, president of Mozambique left the country in 1964 in order to join FRELIMO (Mozambique Liberation Front), a nationalist organization which had begun to fight against the colonial domination of Portugal the previous year.

        But Guebuza and other Mozambicans like him were arrested and handed back to the Portuguese political police in Mozambique . Several months later he tried again and, this time, managed to reach Tanzania . In that country, which was FRELIMO’s base for attacks against Portuguese troops, Guebuza was chosen to be the personal secretary of the first president, Eduardo Mondlane, replacing Joaquim Chissano, who Guebuza later replaced as President of an independent Mozambique .

        In 1966 he became a member of the Central Committee of Frelimo and four years later was nominated as National Political Commissioner. After independence in 1975 he was given the position of Interior Minister, In 1981 he was designated governor of Sofala province and two years after that took on the Interior Ministry again. In 1990 he headed the delegation to Rome that negotiated a peace deal with RENAMO (Mozambican National Resistance) bringing an end to the civil war.

        In 2002 he was elected secretary-general of FRELIMO; in 2004 he won the lection for President of the Republic and in the following year became president of his party.

        Luísa Diogo – Prime Minister

        Prime Minister of Mozambique since February, Luísa Diogo was born in April 1958 in Tete province. She did a Bachelor’s in Economy at the Eduardo Mondlane University in 1983 and nine years later did a masters degree in Financial Economics at the University of London.

        Luísa Diogo replaced Pascoal Mocumbi, who left Mozambique to join the World Health Organization after leading his government for nine years, from 1994 to 2004.

        Before replacing Mocumbi, Luísa Diogo was minister for Planning and Finance, a role to which she was nominated in 2000. From 1994 to 2000 

        The current prime minister was deputy prime minister. Before being nominated for the government Diogo worked as a technician at the Finance Ministry and later as National Budget Director. During her time as a member of staff at the Finance Ministry she received the award for “Socialist Emulation” on three occasions.

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