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Mozambique: Anabela Chambuca awarded Alumni Chissano prize in Coimbra – Watch
6:28 CAT | 05 May 2021
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- Former President Joaquim Chissano also graced the award ceremony with his presence and an opening address, via Zoom.
The Senate Room of the University of Coimbra (UC) this Wednesday (May 5, World Portuguese Language Day) hosted the Joaquim Chissano Alumni Award for Mozambican Students in Portugal.
The distinction, bestowed by the Portugal-Mozambique Chamber of Commerce (CCPM) for the first time this year, was won by Anabela Chambuca, a year 2000 graduate of the UC Faculty of Economics.
Among her other functions, the award winner was chairperson of the board of directors of the Mozambique Stock Exchange, between 2012 and 2016, then national director of the Risk Management Office of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Mozambique, until 2019.
Scheduled to coincide with the celebration of World Portuguese Language Day, the Joaquim Chissano Alumni Award was created to distinguish a former student from Mozambique who completed studies in Portugal and has “excelled in the academic, entrepreneurship, public cause or management areas in Mozambique”, a statement from the Rectory of Coimbra University explains.
Participating in the ceremony were the president of the CCPM, Rui Moreira de Carvalho; the consul general of Mozambique in Portugal, Agostinho Milton; and the rector of the University of Coimbra, Amílcar Falcão.
A Chissano Award ‘honourable mention’ was bestowed on Leonel Tomo, a former student at the Faculty of Economics of Coimbra University “with extensive experience in finance and teaching” in Mozambique.
The day’s programme also included the awarding of the Maria das Neves Rebelo de Sousa Prize to the Palliative Care Association of Mozambique.
The award honours the mother of the President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and is bestowed for “causes of a humanitarian and social nature”, such as those in which she became involved in Mozambique from 1967 to 1970, when her husband, Baltazar Rebelo de Sousa, held the post of governor general.
Source: Lusa / Relações Internacionais Universidade de Coimbra - International Office
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