The new ministers of Foreign Affairs, Mineral Resources and Agriculture

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The new ministers of Foreign Affairs, Mineral Resources and Agriculture

2:20 CAT | 14 Dec 2017

Folha de Maputo / From left to right: Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Higino Francisco Marrule, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation José Condungua Pacheco, President Filipe Nyusi and the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Ernesto Max Elias Tonela.

President Filipe Nyusi inaugurated the newly appointed members of the government this morning.

They are: José Condugua António Pacheco, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation; Ernesto Max Elias Tonela, Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy; and Higino Francisco de Marrule, Minister of Agriculture and Food Security.

José Pacheco has served as Minister of Agriculture and Food Security since 2010. He had previously been deputy minister [of Agriculture] before being appointed Governor of Cabo Delgado from 1998 until 2005, when he was appointed Minister of the Interior, a post he held until 2010.

Higino de Marrule, now Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, was previously the Mozambique representative of VUNA, a regional program funded by DFID and administered by Adam Smith International. Higino de Marrule has been at the forefront of planning and promotion of agricultural development in Mozambique for several years as a senior policy analyst for the MINAG/USAID/Michigan State University Food Security project and as coordinator and head of the Policy Analysis Department of the Ministry of Agriculture.

While in the Ministry of Agriculture (MINAG), Higino de Marrule led the technical group for the Agricultural Development Strategy project from October 2005 to February 2006. He was also a member of the central MINAG group for the design of the National Agricultural Programme Phase II (ProAgri II). As a member of the TechnoServe team in Mozambique, he recently worked as manager of the poultry programme.

Ernesto Max Elias Tonela was a member of the Board of Directors of Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB) and has served as Minister of Industry and Commerce since the beginning of this cycle of governance.

Source: Folha de Maputo