List of Portuguese ambassadors in Kenya

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The list of Portuguese ambassadors in Kenya lists the ambassadors of the Republic of Portugal in Kenya . The two states have had direct diplomatic relations since 1977.

Portugal opened its embassy in the Kenyan capital Nairobi in 1982 and closed it again in 2012. Afterwards, the Portuguese representative in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa was also responsible for Kenya until the embassy in Nairobi was reopened in 2018.

There are two Portuguese honorary consulates in Mombasa and Nairobi .

Heads of mission

Portuguese Ambassador in Nairobi
Surname image Term of office Remarks
Flag of the Republic of PortugalFlag of the Republic of Portugal Portugal
Afonso de Castro de Sá Pereira e Vasconcelos September 23,
1982-26. February 1989 		Portugal's first ambassador to Kenya;
Head of the embassy since September 15, 1982
Paulo Couto Barbosa May 2, 1989
-17. July 1994 		Head of the embassy since March 16, 1989
José Caetano de Campos Andrade Costa Pereira September 13,
1994-29. November 1998 		Head of the Embassy since August 31, 1994;
José Manuel de Carvalho Lameiras May 18, 1999
-17. September 2002 		Head of the embassy since May 3, 1995
Júlio Francisco de Sales Mascarenhas November 17, 2002
-7. November 2005
Luis João de Sousa Lorvão November 19, 2005
-3. October 2010
Alexandre Maria Lindim Vassalo January 14, 2011
–29. February 2012 		for the time being the last ambassador of Portugal with official seat in Kenya
Afonso Henriques Abreu de Azeredo Malheiro April 21, 2016
–15. December 2017 		Portugal's ambassador to Ethiopia, to whose administrative district Kenya now belonged
Luísa Maria Machado da Palma Fragoso since May 18, 2018 Chargé d'affaires at the reopened embassy in Nairobi

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of Portuguese diplomatic missions abroad (under Quénia ), website of the Portuguese Foreign Ministry , accessed on June 10, 2017
  2. ↑ List of Portuguese ambassadors in Kenya , Diplomatic Institute of the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed on October 13, 2019