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Armando Emílio Guebuza (20 janvier 1943, Murrupula, province de Nampula-) est un homme politique mozambicain membre du Frelimo, et président en exercice de la République du Mozambique depuis le 2 février 2005.

Armando Guebuza intègre le Frelimo en 1963. Il quitte le Mozambique en 1964 pour participer à la guerilla.

Guebuza est un ancien premier ministre de Joaquim Chissano. Homme d'affaires fortuné, ministre de l'intérieur. Il est élu secrétaire général du Frelimo en 2002.

Après son élection les 1er et 2 décembre 2004 avec 64% des voix, la Renamo de l'opposant et candidat Alfonso Dlakhama, ainsi que nombre de petits partis, dénoncent, comme pour les précédentes élections de 1994 et 1999, des fraudes multiples et lourdes. Les législatives tenues en même temps font l'objet des mêmes critiques. La ReNaMo demande de nouvelles élections justes et impartiales. Les observateurs internationaux envoyés sur place pour contrôler le bon déroulement du scrutin se sont vu interdire par la Commission nationale électorale l'accès aux phases de dépouillement. Néanmoins selon les mêmes observateurs, les fraudes massives ne sont pas sufffisantes pour modifier le résultat du scrutin. [Suite]

Armando Emílio Guebuza (b. January 20, 1943) is a Mozambican politician, the current president of that country from 2005.

Guebuza is a former member of that party's Politburo and served briefly as part of a 10-member collective head of state after the unexpected death of Samora Machel in 1986.
Guebuza was born in northern Mozambique. He joined Frelimo at the age of 20, shortly after it began Mozambique's war of independence against Portugal. By the time independence was achieved in 1975, Guebuza had become an important general and leader in Frelimo. He became interior minister in the Machel government and issued an order forcing certain Portuguese residents to leave within 24 hours, known as the "24 20" order because the residents in question were restricted to 20 kilograms of luggage. During the 1980s Guebuza developed an unpopular program known as "Operation Production" in which jobless people from urban areas were moved to rural areas in the northern part of the country.

Following Machel's death in a plane crash in South Africa, he was part of a committee investigating the circumstances of the crash, which came to no certain conclusion. He represented Frelimo at the peace negotiations with the Renamo guerilla that led to the Rome General Peace Accords, signed in Rome 4 October 1992. During the transitional phase towards the first general elections in 1994, he represented the Government of Mozambique in the joint Supervision and Monitoring Commission, the highest implementing body of the General Peace Accords.
Following the abandonment of socialist economic policies by President Joaquim Chissano, which included the privatization of state companies, Guebuza became a successful and wealthy businessman, particularly in the construction, exports and fishing industries.
He was chosen as Frelimo's presidential candidate in 2002 after a tough struggle within the party. He became Secretary General of the party in the same year.

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Guebuza was the candidate of FRELIMO for the December 2004 presidential elections, which he won with 63.7% of the vote. He became president of Mozambique on February 2, 2005.

Source: wikipedia.org