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.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was the creator of Transcendental Meditation (TM) and leader of the worldwide organization that has been characterized in multiple ways,including as a new religious movement and as non-religious. He became known as Maharishi and Yogi as an adult.
Samora Moisés Machel was a Mozambican politician and revolutionary. A socialist in the tradition of Marxism–Leninism,he served as the first President of Mozambique from the country's independence in 1975 until his death in a plane crash in 1986.
FRELIMO is a democratic socialist political party in Mozambique. It has governed the country since its independence from Portugal in 1975.
The national flag of Mozambique is a horizontal tricolour of green,black,and gold with white fimbriations and a red isosceles triangle at the hoist. The triangle is charged with a five-pointed gold star in its center,above which there is a bayonet-equipped AK-47 crossed by a hoe,superimposed on an open book. The colours and symbols of the flag represent different aspects of the Mozambican people and their war of independence. The current design,adopted on 1 May 1983,is defined in Mozambique's constitution,and regulations regarding the flag's use are outlined in decree no. 47/2006,titled State Protocol Standards. The current Mozambican flag is a modified version of the first flag of FRELIMO,which has governed the country since its independence from Portugal on 25 June 1975. Since the democratisation of Mozambique in 1990,there have been calls to change the flag,particularly to remove the AK-47.
Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane was a Mozambican revolutionary and anthropologist,and founder of the Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO). He served as the FRELIMO's first leader until his assassination in 1969 in Tanzania. An anthropologist by profession,Mondlane also worked as a history and sociology professor at Syracuse University before returning to Mozambique in 1963.
Armando Emílio Guebuza is a Mozambican politician who was the third President of Mozambique from 2005 to 2015.
JoséCraveirinha was a Mozambican journalist,story writer and poet,who is today considered the greatest poet of Mozambique. His poems,written in Portuguese,address such issues as racism and the Portuguese colonial domination of Mozambique. A supporter of the anti-Portuguese group FRELIMO during the colonial wars,he was imprisoned in the 1960s. He was one of the African pioneers of the Négritude movement,and published six books of poetry between 1964 and 1997. Craveirinha also wrote under the pseudonyms Mário Vieira,JoséCravo,Jesuíno Cravo,J. Cravo,J.C.,Abílio Cossa,and JoséG. Vetrinha.
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.
The Natural Law Party of Canada ran several candidates in the 1997 federal election,none of whom were elected.
Carlos Alberto Lopes Cardoso was a Portugese-Mozambican investigative journalist. His assassination in 2000 followed his newspaper's investigation into corruption in the privatisation of Mozambique's biggest bank.
The People's Republic of Mozambique was a socialist state that existed in present-day Mozambique from 1975 to 1990. It was established when the country gained independence from Portugal in June 1975 and the Mozambican Liberation Front ("FRELIMO") established a one-party socialist state led by Samora Machel. The state enjoyed close political and military ties with the Soviet Union,which was one of the first nations to provide diplomatic recognition and financial support to the fledgling FRELIMO government. For the duration of its history,the People's Republic of Mozambique remained heavily dependent on Soviet aid,both in financial terms as well as with regards to food security,fuel,and other vital economic necessities. From 1977 to 1992,the country was devastated by a deadly civil war which pitted the armed forces against the anti-communist Mozambique National Resistance (RENAMO) insurgency,backed by neighbouring Rhodesia and South Africa.
Filipe Jacinto Nyusi is a Mozambican politician serving since 2015 as the fourth president of Mozambique. 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. 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.
Uria Timoteo Simango was a Mozambican Presbyterian minister and prominent leader of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) during the liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial rule. His precise date of death is unknown as he was extrajudicially executed along with several other FRELIMO dissidents and his wife,Celina by the post-independence government of Samora Machel.
The History of Transcendental Meditation (TM) and the Transcendental Meditation movement originated with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,founder of the organization,and continues beyond his death (2008). In 1955,the Maharishi began publicly teaching a traditional meditation technique learned from his master Brahmananda Saraswati,which he called Transcendental Deep Meditation,and later renamed Transcendental Meditation.
Maharishi Heaven on Earth Development Corp. (MHOED) is a for-profit real estate developer associated with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his Transcendental Meditation movement. First founded in Malibu California in 1988,it has sought to build utopian projects in the U.S.,Canada,and Africa with a long-term goal to "reconstruct the entire world",at an estimated cost of $100 trillion.
Alberto Mabungulane Chissano was a Mozambican sculptor best known for his work using indigenous woods,and sculptures in rock,stone and iron. He is considered to be one of Mozambique's most important and influential artists,together with the painter Malangatana Ngwenya.
Alberto Massavanhane was a Mozambican diplomat,teacher,and the first Mayor of Maputo. After the signing of Lusaka Accord,in 1974,Massavanhane was nominated by Frelimo as Mayor of Lourenço Marques during the transition government,becoming the first Mozambican to be President of the Executive Council of Maputo after Independence of Mozambique in 1975. In 1983 Alberto Massavanhane was again called to be the head of Maputo local government,before being designated as Ambassador of Mozambique in the Kingdom of Sweden,also covering Denmark,Finland,Iceland and Norway,from 1988 until his death in 1993.
Brazil–Mozambique relations are the bilateral relations between Brazil and Mozambique. Both nations are members of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries,Group of 77 and the United Nations.
