Adelaide Amurane

Adelaide Anchia Amurane (born December 25, 1960 in Itoculo, Monapo District , Nampula Province , Portuguese East Africa ) is a Mozambican economist and politician ( FRELIMO ). Since January 19, 2015, she has been Minister of the Presidency ( Ministra na Presidência para os Assuntos da Casa Civil ) in the Nyusi cabinet . Before that, she already performed various duties under Presidents Chissano and Guebuza .

Life

education

Adelaide Anchia Amurane was on December 25, 1960 at the village Itoculo in district Monapo the province of Nampula born the youngest of six children. She attended the primary school of Rio Manapo until she graduated in 1971. She then studied at the commercial school in the provincial capital Nampula ( Escola Comercial e Industrial de Nampula ) until 1977. In 1978, Amurane moved to Maputo , where she first did a humanistic preparatory course at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane attended until she was able to study economics there from 1980 to 1983.

Major project "120 mil hectares"

In 1983 she took up a job at the Ministry of Agriculture, where she led the major project "120 mil hectares" (120,000 hectares). The project goal was to build large farms of up to 120,000 hectares of arable land as part of an agreement between the People's Republic of Mozambique and the GDR . After the Unango attack , in which seven GDR citizens were killed, the Mozambican Ministry of Agriculture alone took on the continuation of the project.

In 1987 Amurane moved to the Ministry of Information, where she headed the department for the distribution of films of the National Cinema Institute ( Instituto Nacional de Cinema ) until 1990 . In 1991 she switched again to the Ministry of Labor to work there in the Gabinete de Promoção de Emprego (German: "Department for Employment Policy").

Call to the cabinet

In 1994 President Joaquim Chissano appointed Amurane as deputy minister for labor. She held this position until 2005. In 2010, President Armando Guebuza appointed her as Minister for Parliamentary, Local and Provincial Political Affairs ( Ministra na Presidência para Assuntos Parlamentares, Autárquicos e das Assembleias Provinciais ). In 2015, after Filipe Nyusi was elected President, he appointed her Minister of the Presidential Office ( Ministra na Presidência para os Assuntos da Casa Civil ) in the Nyusi cabinet .

Private

Amurane belongs to the Makua people and is a follower of the Muslim faith. Amurane is also divorced and has three children. Her brother, Mahamudo Amurane , is a member of the opposition MDM and mayor of the city of Nampula.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Joseph Hanlon, Adriano Nuvunga, Luis Nhachote: Boletim sobre o processo político em Moçambique. (No longer available online.) CIP / AWEPA, February 18, 2015, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved March 31, 2015 (Portuguese).