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Mozambique: Former Prime Minister Mocumbi to be buried on Tuesday
4:25 CAT | 28 Mar 2023
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Former Prime Minister of Mozambique, Pascoal Mocumbi, who died in Maputo on Saturday after a prolonged illness, will be buried at the Lhanguene Cemetery in the Mozambican capital on Tuesday (28-03).
Mocumbi, one of the founders of the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), the political party currently in power, will have an official funeral, according to a decision taken by the Council of Ministers, who met in the capital on Saturday.
The same meeting determined to observe two days of national mourning, starting on the day of his funeral, and advised that the national and presidential flags are to be flown at half-mast throughout the country and at the diplomatic and consular missions of the Republic of Mozambique for the same period.
Pascoal Manuel Mocumbi was born on April 10, 1941, in what was then Lourenço Marques, now Maputo.
He completed his primary education at the Mocumbi mission in Inharrime district, Inhambane province, in 1952, his secondary education at the Liceu Salazar in Maputo in 1960, and a Medicine course in Switzerland in 1973.
A doctor by profession, Mocumbi qualified in General Internship (surgery, obstetrics, medicine and pediatrics), at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, between 1973 and 1975.
He was awarded several distinctions, including the Eduardo Mondlane Order of the 1st Degree, Veteran of the National Liberation Struggle and Socialist Work, as well as other honors such as Grand Cross of the Order of Bernardo, the O’Higgins honour (Chile) and the Ordem Grande Cruzeiro do Sul (Brazil).
He served as Minister of Health from 1980 to 1987, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1987 to 1994) and Prime Minister (1994-2004).
Source: AIM
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