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Mozambique - Head of Government

HE Mr Armando Emilio Guebuza, President

HE Mr Armando Emilio Guebuza was sworn in as President of the Republic of Mozambique in February 2005.

Mr Guebuza was the Secretary-General of Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) in 2002 and its Chief Whip in the first multiparty Parliament that emerged after the 1994 general election. He headed the government delegation to the Rome talks with the Mozambican National Resistance, RENAMO, that culminated in the Rome Peace Agreement of 2 October 1992.

Mr Guebuza was also involved in the Burundi Peace Process, in charge of the Commission on the Nature of the Burundi Conflict, Problems of Genocide and Exclusion and its Solution, and in 2000 chaired the Commission for Guarantees for the Implementation of the Peace Agreement.

Mr Guebuza was appointed Minister of Transport and Communications in 1986 and Minister in the President’s Office with responsibility for Agriculture, Trade, Light Industry and Tourism from 1984 to 1986. He was Minister of the Interior from 1975 to 1977. From 1966 to 1978, Mr Guebuza held various posts in FRELIMO, including Minister of Home Affairs in the Transition Government formed after the Lusaka Agreement of 1974.

He joined FRELIMO in 1963 and has been a FRELIMO Central Committee member since 1966.

Mr Guebuza was born on 29 January 1943 in Murrupula, Nampula Province, Mozambique.