Filipe Nyusi

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Filipe Nyusi at a FRELIMO election event (2014)

Filipe Jacinto Nyusi (born February 9, 1959 in Namau, Mueda District , Cabo Delgado Province , Portuguese East Africa ) is a Mozambican entrepreneur and politician of the Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO). From 2008 to 2014 Nyusi was Mozambique's Minister of Defense and was elected fourth President of Mozambique on October 15, 2014 . He has also been the chairman of FRELIMO since March 29, 2015. In the 2019 presidential election , he was confirmed in office with a large majority.

biography

Nyusi, who comes from the far north of Mozambique and belongs to the Makonde ethnic group , is still relatively little known internationally. His parents Jacinto Nyusi Chimela and Angelina Daima were simple farmers and freedom fighters in the war against the Portuguese colonial rulers .

education

In his youth he was sent to neighboring Tanzania , where he attended primary school in Tunduru , and later a FRELIMO management school in Nachingwea . In 1973 he was accepted into FRELIMO and also received military training in Tanzania . After the independence of Mozambique in 1975, he graduated from 1976 to 1982, first in its North-Mozambican home Mariri, later in Beira the secondary . He studied electrical engineering in the capital Maputo , from 1990 he studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Brno in what was then Czechoslovakia and finally in 1999 business administration at the University of Manchester in Great Britain .

In 2003 he graduated from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad , India with a degree in management . Other short-term courses also took him to Swaziland , South Africa and the USA . Filipe Nyusi was a part-time lecturer in mathematics at the Nampula Pedagogical University between 2002 and 2008 .

CFM Managing Director

From 1993 to 2007, Nyusi was managing director of the Mozambican state railway company , where he had been employed from 1992. The company sponsors the Ferroviário de Nampula football club in the first division , of which Filipe Nyusi was the former chairman. From 2008 to 2014 Nyusi was Minister of Defense. In September 2012 he was elected to the Central Committee of FRELIMO during the Tenth Congress. He is a member of the Association of Fighters of the National Liberation Struggle (Associação dos Combatentes da Luta de Libertação Nacional, ACLLN).

Presidency

The long-standing President Armando Guebuza was no longer allowed to run after two terms in office. Supported and sponsored by Guebuza, Nyusi, now 55 years old, won 57.03% of the votes in the first round of the presidential election with FRELIMO on October 15, 2014 . His surprising election as a stranger from the north is an important sign in Mozambique, as the Mozambican population in the north has always felt politically and economically disadvantaged and the concentration of power has always been limited to the south. The north has recently gained significant economic weight. Huge gas fields were recently discovered there, making the country one of the largest gas exporters in the world.

On March 29, 2015, Armando Guebuza, who had been President of the FRELIMO since 2005 and traditionally party chairman since 2006, handed over the chairmanship to Filipe Nyusi. This was elected with 98.6 percent of the votes of the members of the central committee of the party.

In the 2019 presidential election, Nyusi won with around 73% of the votes and was thus able to take up his second and constitutionally last term of office on January 15, 2020.

Personal

Filipe Nyusi is married to Isaura Nyusi and they both have four children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Emildo Sambo: Guebuza demite-se e Filipe Nyusi assume a liderança do partido Frelimo. In: A Verdade. March 30, 2015. Retrieved March 30, 2015 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ Professional career ( Memento from September 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), on frelimo.org.mz
  3. ↑ Nyusi: a vez de um Presidente desportista ( memento of November 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), jornaldomingo.com.mz, of October 20, 2014
  4. ↑ Frelimo website with a list of members, as of 2014, listed as Filipe Nyussi (Portuguese; archive link)
  5. ↑ ACLLN website ( Memento from November 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 2, 2014 (Portuguese)
  6. ↑ Felipe Nyusi Mozambique's unknown president , Deutsche Welle Online, October 30, 2014
  7. ↑ Mozambique and Tanzania as future natural gas exporters , Federal Institute for Geosciences / German Raw Materials Agency, accessed on November 2, 2014
  8. ↑ Deutsche Bank Research - Mozambique - A Growth Story with Potential , June 17, 2014
  9. ↑ sth / ml: President Filipe Nyusi wins elections in Mozambique. dw.com on October 27, 2019, accessed on October 27, 2019
  10. ^ Mozambique president sworn in after contested re-election. africanews.com, January 15, 2020, accessed January 15, 2020

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personal data
SURNAME Nyusi, Filipe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nyusi, Filipe Jacinto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mozambican entrepreneur and FRELIMO politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Namau , Cabo Delgado Province