Isaura Gonçalo Ferrão Nyusi (born October 2,1962) is a Mozambican civil servant and educator who has served as the First Lady of Mozambique 15 January 2015 until 15 January 2025,as the wife of President Filipe Nyusi. [1]
Nyusi became the President of the Organization of Mozambican Women (OMM),the women's political arm of FRELIMO,on February 11,2016. [2]
Mozambique,officially the Republic of Mozambique,is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east,Tanzania to the north,Malawi and Zambia to the northwest,Zimbabwe to the west,and Eswatini and South Africa to the south and southwest. The sovereign state is separated from the Comoros,Mayotte and Madagascar by the Mozambique Channel to the east. The capital and largest city is Maputo.
Mozambique was a Portuguese colony,overseas province and later a member state of Portugal. It gained independence from Portugal in 1975.
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.
FRELIMO is a democratic socialist political party in Mozambique. It has governed the country since its independence from Portugal 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.
RENAMO is a Mozambican political party and militant group. The party was founded with the active sponsorship of the Rhodesian Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) in May 1977 from anti-communist dissidents opposed to Mozambique's ruling FRELIMO party. RENAMO was initially led by AndréMatsangaissa,a former senior official in FRELIMO's armed wing,and was composed of several anti-communist dissident groups which appeared immediately prior to,and shortly following,Mozambican independence. Matsangaissa,who died in 1979,was succeeded by Afonso Dhlakama,who led the organization until he died in 2018. He was succeeded by Ossufo Momade.
Afonso Marceta Macacho Dhlakama was a Mozambican politician and the leader of RENAMO,an anti-communist guerrilla movement that fought the FRELIMO government in the Mozambican Civil War before signing a peace agreement and becoming an opposition political party in the early 1990s. Dhlakama was born in Mangunde,Sofala Province.
Esperança Bias is a Mozambican politician. She is a graduate 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.
Filipe Jacinto Nyusi is a Mozambican politician who was the fourth president of Mozambique from 2015 to 2025. He has also served as the Chairman of the Southern African Development Community from 2020 to 2022. During his time in office,President Nyusi has promoted peace and security,and signed multiple agreements with the main opposition parties,RENAMO,to bring a definitive and lasting peace to Mozambique.
Daviz Mbepo Simango was a Mozambican politician who was Mayor of Beira from 2003 to the day of his death in February 2021. He was also the President of the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM). He was son of Uria Timoteo Simango the first Vice-President of FRELIMO and Celina Tapua Simango. He joined the main opposition party RENAMO in 1997 and became Mayor of Beira in 2003 as its candidate. On March 6,2009,he founded a new party,the Movimento Democrático de Moçambique,or MDM.
Aires Bonifácio Baptista Ali is a Mozambican politician who was Prime Minister of Mozambique from 16 January 2010 to 8 October 2012,when he was sacked by Mozambican President Armando Guebuza in a cabinet reshuffle.
General elections were held in Mozambique on 15 October 2014. Filipe Nyusi,the candidate of the ruling FRELIMO,was elected president,and FRELIMO retained its parliamentary majority.
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.
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.
Gilles Cistac was a French-Mozambican lawyer specialised in constitutional law. He was shot and killed and political motives were suspected. The RENAMO party organised protests.
Tanzania–Mozambique relations are the bilateral relations between Tanzania and Mozambique. Both countries are members of the African Union,Southern African Development Community and Commonwealth of Nations.
General elections were held in Mozambique on 15 October 2019. During the leadup to the elections,assassinations and significant intimidation of prominent leaders of opposition parties and election observers were alleged. In addition,state resources,media,and aid for cyclone victims were also alleged to be used in favour of the ruling party (FRELIMO) and its candidates. Local elections observers,civil society organizations,the Commonwealth Observer Group,the European Union Election Observation Mission,and several national and international entities classified the elections as rigged. Nevertheless,the incumbent president Filipe Nyusi of FRELIMO was declared re-elected with 73% of the vote. The main opposition party RENAMO as well as the other oppositions parties involved in the elections contested the results,claiming there were numerous irregularities,and accusing FRELIMO of "massive electoral fraud",including hundreds of thousands of "ghost voters". As evidence for the international community,Ossufo Momade,the president of the main opposition party RENAMO,transported to Europe a box filled with vote ballots that had been marked in favor of the incumbent president Filipe Nyusi of FRELIMO before the commencement of voting. Despite these occurrences,the international community largely ignored any concerns of fraud,and gradually countries started recognizing the incumbent president Filipe Nyusi of FRELIMO as the winner of the elections.
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.
Helena Mateus Kida is a Mozambican judicial magistrate and politician who has been the Minister of Justice,Constitutional and Religious Affairs since January 2020. A member of FRELIMO,Kida previously served as the deputy minister of interior from 2017 to 2020.
![]() | This Mozambican biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |