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Filipe Nhussi

His Excellency
Filipe Nyusi
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4th President of Mozambique
Assumed office
15 January 2015
Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosário
Preceded by Armando Guebuza
Minister of National Defence
In office
27 March 2008 – 14 March 2014
Preceded by Tobias Joaquim Dai
Succeeded by Agostinho Mondlane
Personal details
Born (1959-02-09) 9 February 1959 (age 59)
Mueda, Cabo Delgado,
Portuguese Mozambique
Nationality Mozambican
Political party FRELIMO
Spouse(s) Isaura Nyusi
Children 4
Alma mater Brno University of Technology
University of Manchester
Profession Mechanical engineer
Website www.nyusi.org.mz

Filipe Jacinto Nyusi (Portuguese pronunciation: [fiˈlipɨ ʒɐˈsĩtu ˈɲusi], born 9 February 1959), also spelt Nyussi, is a Mozambican politician serving as the fourth President of Mozambique, in office since 2015. He previously served as Minister of Defence from 2008 to 2014. Nyusi was the candidate of the ruling party, Frelimo, in the 2014 presidential election.

He was born in Namau in Mueda District, Cabo Delgado Province, belonging to the Makonde ethnic group. Both his parents, were veterans of the liberation movement, Frelimo. At the start of the Mozambican War of Independence, he was taken across the Ruvuma River to neighbouring Tanzania, where he was educated at Frelimo Primary School in Tunduru. He pursued his secondary education at the Frelimo school at Mariri in Cabo Delgado and at Samora Machel Secondary School in Beira.

In 1973, he joined Frelimo at the age of fourteen and received political and military training at Nachingwea in Tanzania.

In 1990, he completed his mechanical engineering degree at Brno University of Technology in Czechoslovakia. He also studied a postgraduate degree management at the Victoria University of Manchester in England.

Prior to his appointment to the cabinet by President Armando Guebuza, Nyusi worked for the state-owned Mozambique Ports and Railways authority (CFM). He became executive director of CFM-Norte, the northern division of the company, in 1995, and joined the company's board of directors in 2007.


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