Mozambique: Who are the new Deputy Ministers?

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Mozambique: Who are the new Deputy Ministers?

1:54 CAT | 08 Feb 2020

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Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday re-appointed Adelaide Amurane as Minister in the President’s Office (a post roughly equivalent to that of Chief of Staff under the US system).

Amurane has been a minister in the president’s office for the past ten years, under both Nyusi and his predecessor, Armando Guebuza. She was Deputy Labour Minister from 1994 to 2005, and an adviser to the First Lady (Maria da Luz Guebuza) from 2005 to 2009. She was deputy head of the administration and finance department of the ruling Frelimo Party in 2007-2008.

She is the sister of the late Mahamudo Amurane, elected in 2013 on the ticket of the opposition Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM) as mayor of the northern city of Nampula. He was assassinated in October 2017, and the crime has not been solved.

Nyusi also appointed 15 deputy ministers. He kept in the same posts four deputy ministers from his previous government – namely Manuela Rebelo, at Transport and Communications, Leda Hugo at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Henriques Bonguece, at the Ministry of the Sea, Inland Waters and Fisheries, and Lucas Mangrasse, at the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Welfare.

Nyusi appointed one of the country’s most experienced diplomats, Pedro Comissario, as the new Deputy Foreign Minister. Among the posts he has held in the past are Ambassador to Portugal, Ambassador to Sweden, and Mozambique’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva.

His most recent post was director of the Mozambican government’s Central Office for the Fight against Drugs, to which he was appointed in February 2019.

The new Deputy Finance Minister, Carla Louveira, was previously Director of the Office for Financial Inclusion in the Bank of Mozambique. She also happens to be the daughter of Rosario Fernandes, the widely praised head of the National Statistics Institute (INE), who resigned last year.

Inocencio Impissa becomes Deputy Minister of State Administration and the Public Service. He was previously National Director for the Development of the Public Administration, and the spokesperson for the Ministry.

The new Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, Ludovina Bernardo, was previously National Director of Communications in the Transport Ministry.

Nyusi appointed Rolinho Farnela, previously the Manica Provincial Director of Labour, as the new Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Security, while Olegario Banze, the former National Director of Rural Development becomes Deputy Minister of Agriculture.

Lawyer Filimao Suaze is the new Deputy Minister of Justice. He was also a member of the Matola City Municipal Council, and its spokesperson.

Fredson Bacar, formerly Inhambane Provincial Director of Tourism and Culture, is the new deputy minister for the same portfolio. Lidia da Graca Cardoso, formerly an adviser for the management of medical logistics, becomes deputy health minister.

Nyusi also appointed Cecilia Chamutota, a specialist in water and drainage projects as Deputy Minister of Public Works and Manuel Bazo, an educational planning specialist as Deputy Minister of Education.

Nyusi has not yet appointed deputy ministers for certain key ministries – such as Defence, the Interior, and Mineral Resources.

The full list of the deputy ministers appointed, or re-appointed, on Thursday is as follows:

Foreign Affairs and Cooperation – Pedro Comissario Afonso

Transport and Communications – Manuela Rebelo

Science, Technology and Higher and Professional Education – Leda Hugo

Gender, Children and Social Welfare – Lucas Mangrasse

Sea, Inland Waters and Fisheries – Henriques Bongece

State Administration and the Public Service – Inocencio Impissa

Agriculture and Rural Development – Olegario Banze

Industry and Trade – Ludovina Bernardo

Education and Human Development – Manuel Bazo

Economy and Finance – Carla Rosario Fernandes Louveira