Politics in Mozambique takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic,whereby the President of Mozambique is head of state and head of government in a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Assembly of the Republic.
The Mozambique Defence Armed Forces or FADM are the national armed forces of Mozambique. They include the General Staff of the Armed Forces and three branches of service:Army,Air Force and Navy.
Samora Moisés Machel was a Mozambican military commander and political leader. A socialist in the tradition of Marxism–Leninism,he served as the first President of Mozambique from the country's independence in 1975.
Luísa Dias Diogo is a Mozambican politician who served as Prime Minister of Mozambique from February 2004 to January 2010. She replaced Pascoal Mocumbi,who had been Prime Minister for the previous nine years. Before becoming Prime Minister,she was Minister of Planning and Finance,and she continued to hold that post until February 2005.
Armando Emílio Guebuza is a Mozambican politician who was the third President of Mozambique from 2005 to 2015.
Alcinda António de Abreu is a Mozambican politician. She was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mozambique from 2005 to 2008,having previously been the Minister of Social Welfare. She most recently served as Minister of the Environment. She has worked to increase the role of women in climate change.
Esperança Bias is a Mozambican politician. She is a gradulate of the Faculty of Economy at the Eduardo Mondlane University. From 1999 to 2005,she served as the Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources. From 2005 to 2015,she served as Mozambique's Minister of Mineral Resources. In 2015,incoming president Filipe Nyusi replaced her with Pedro Conceição Couto.
Verónica Nataniel Macamo Dlhovo is a Mozambican politician who has served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2020. She served as the President of the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique from 2010 to 2020. Dlhovo is a member of Frelimo.
The People's Republic of Mozambique was a socialist state that existed in present day Mozambique from 1975 to 1990.
Filipe Jacinto Nyusi is a Mozambican politician serving as the fourth President of Mozambique since 2015. He is the current leader of FRELIMO,the party that has governed Mozambique since its independence from Portugal in 1975. Additionally,he has served as the Chairman of the Southern African Development Community since August 2020.
Teodato Mondim da Silva Hunguana is a Mozambican lawyer and politician who was the chairman of the boards of Telecomunicações de Moçambique and M-Cel.
The RENAMO insurgency was a guerrilla campaign by militants of the RENAMO party and one of its splinter factions in Mozambique. The insurgency was widely considered to be an aftershock of the Mozambican Civil War;it resulted in renewed tensions between RENAMO and Mozambique's ruling FRELIMO coalition over charges of state corruption and the disputed results of the 2014 general elections.
Kenya–Mozambique relations are bilateral relations between Kenya and Mozambique. Both nations are members of the African Union,Commonwealth of Nations and the United Nations.
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário is a Mozambican politician who was the Prime Minister of Mozambique from 17 January 2015 until 3 March 2022. He is a member of the FRELIMO,and served under President Filipe Nyusi. He worked as a civil servant in the 1970s and was Governor of Zambezia Province between 1987 and 1994. Later he served a short while as MP in 1994 before becoming Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries,in which post he served until 1999. Afterwards he became a diplomat in Asia;prior to his appointment as Prime Minister,Rosario served as Ambassador to Indonesia.
Maria Helena Taipo is a Mozambican politician who was Minister of Labor for ten years and has been governor of Sofala Province since 2015.
Ivone Soares is a Mozambican politician. She is the deputy leader of Mozambican National Resistance and leads its parliamentary party in the Assembly of the Republic. Soares is also a member of the Pan-African Parliament where she is vice-president of youth. She was the target of an attempted assassination in September 2016.
Manuel Chang (曼努埃尔·郑) is a former Mozambican economist and politician of the FRELIMO party. From 2005 to 2015 he served as the Minister of Economy and Finance in President Armando Guebuza's cabinet. He replaced Luísa Diogo as Finance Minister in February 2005. His work as Finance Minister was intertwined in a debt scandal. In January 2015 when President Filipe Nyusi assumed office he replaced Chang as Finance Minister with Adriano Maleiane.
Cristóvão Artur Chume is a Mozambican military general who has been the Minister of National Defense since his appointment in November 2021. He had previously served as the Commander of the Army Branch of the Mozambique Defence Armed Forces from March to November 2021.
Ernesto Max Elias Tonela is a Mozambican economist and politician who has been the Minister of Economy and Finance since March 2022. A member of FRELIMO,he had previously served as Minister of Industry and Commerce from January 2015 to December 2017 and as Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy from December 2017 to March 2022.
Mateus Magala is a Mozambican economist,engineer and politician who has served as the Minister of Transport and Communications of Mozambique since June 2022. He had previously served as the Vice President for Corporate Services and Human Resources,of the African Development Bank from September 2018 until his appointment as a cabinet minister. Magala is also a former chairman of Electricidade de Moçambique,the country's electricity distributor.
