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Filipe Nyusi is a Mozambican politician who served as President of Mozambique from 2015 to 2025. His presidency matters because he led one of Southern Africa's most strategically important countries during a decade marked by significant economic and security challenges.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Mozambique
- Place of birth
- Mueda District
- Spouse
- Isaura Nyusi
- Occupation
- minister
- Position held
- President of Mozambique
- Employer
- Mozambique Ports and Railways
- Political party
- FRELIMO
- Languages spoken
- Makonde
- Official website
- www.nyusi.org.mz
- Image
- Filipe Nyusi - 2019 (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 4
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- name in native language
- Filipe Jacinto Nyusi
- P10632
- Filipe Nyusi
- date of birth
- 1959-02-09
- Commons category
- Filipe Nyusi
- affiliation string
- President of Mozambique
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Encyclopedic overview
Filipe Jacinto Nyusi ( Portuguese pronunciation: [fiˈlipɨ ʒɐˈsĩtu ˈɲusi]; born 9 February 1959) is a Mozambican politician who was the president of Mozambique from 2015 to 2025. He has also served as the Chairman of the Southern African Development Community from 2020 to 2022. During his time in office, President Nyusi signed multiple agreements with the main opposition parties, RENAMO.
Nyusi served as the Minister of Defense from 2008 to 2014 under Armando Guebuza. He won the 2014 and 2019 Mozambican presidential elections as the candidate of FRELIMO. Despite allegations of irregularities the President of the National Election Commission stated that "the elections were free, fair and transparent", with the Constitutional Count verifying the result on 23 December 2019. However, according to the European Union Election Observation Mission in Mozambique, Commonwealth Observer Group, and the U.S. Embassy in Mozambique, the 2019 election was characterized by instances of fraud, intimidation, and the murders of opposition leaders and election observers. The President of the National Election Commission acknowledged that the 2019 elections were marked by irregularities, stating "that is why when [the National Election Commission] announced the results, nobody heard [the National Election Commission] saying that the elections were free, fair and transparent."
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