Mozambique: Nyusi makes new appointments – AIM report

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Mozambique: Nyusi makes new appointments – AIM report

11:55 CAT | 31 Jan 2020

File photo: Domingo

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday appointed Carlos Siliya as Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, replacing Eusebio Lambo.

Siliya is a veteran of the independence war waged by the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo) against Portuguese colonial rule. He has also served as a Frelimo deputy in the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, and in 1996 he published a book on Mozambican culture.

Nyusi also abolished the Ministry of Youth and Sport, and took responsibilities for employment away from the Labour Ministry, reducing it to the Ministry of Labour and Social Security. He created two new State Secretariats, one for Youth and Employment, and the second for Sport.

Nyusi appointed the former Deputy Minister of Labour, Oswaldo Petersburgo, as the Secretary of State for Youth and Employment.

The actor, theatre director and television personality, Gilberto Mendes, becomes the Secretary of State for Sport.

After these appointments, the central government is as follows:

President of the Republic – Filipe Jacinto Nyusi

Prime Minister – Carlos Agostinho do Rosario

Minister of Economy and Finance – Adriano Maleiane

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation – Veronica Macamo

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development – Celso Correia

Minister of Land and Environment – Ivete Mabasso

Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy – Ernesto Max Tonela

Minister of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources – Joao Osvaldo Machatine

Minister of National Defence – Jaime Bessa Neto