List of Portuguese ambassadors in Kenya
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
Surname | image | Term of office | Remarks |
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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 |
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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 |
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Luis João de Sousa Lorvão | November 19, 2005 -3. October 2010 |
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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
- Overview of the diplomatic relations between Portugal and Kenya at the diplomatic institute in the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of Portuguese diplomatic missions abroad (under Quénia ), website of the Portuguese Foreign Ministry , accessed on June 10, 2017
- ↑ List of Portuguese ambassadors in Kenya , Diplomatic Institute of the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed on October 13, 2019