Armando Guebuza, President of the Republic of Mozambique, gave an IISS Keynote Oppenheimer Lecture on ‘New Threats to the Peace and Security of Africa and the World’ on Tuesday 08 May 2012.
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Succeeding Mozambique’s long term leader Joaquim Chissano, Frelimo candidate Armando Guebuza won the 2004 Presidential and National Assembly elections and was inaugurated as the President of Mozambique in February 2005. President Guebuza went on to win another term in office with a landslide majority victory in October 2009.
Armando Guebuza joined Mozambique’s Liberation Front, Frelimo, at the age of 20, rising to the rank of General. In 1974 he was appointed Minister of Internal Administration in the transition government that lead Mozambique to its independence in 1975. Among others, Armando Guebuza occupied the posts of Minister of the Interior, Vice Minister of Defence and then Transport Minister in Joaquim Chissano’s first government. Before his Presidential victory he led the government side of the Supervision and Control Commission, the UN body overseeing the implementation of the Rome Peace Agreement which guided the country towards its first multi-party elections.
The IISS has been hosting the Oppenheimer Lecture series, delivered by eminent African personalities, since 2006.
