Carlos Agostinho do Rosário (born 26 October 1954) is a Mozambican politician who was the Prime Minister of Mozambique from 17 January 2015 until 3 March 2022. He is a member of the

FRELIMO FRELIMO (; from the Portuguese , ) is a democratic socialist political party in Mozambique. It is the dominant party in Mozambique and has won a majority of the seats in the Assembly of the Republic in every election since the country's firs ...

, and served under President

Filipe Nyusi Filipe Jacinto Nyusi (; born 12 February 1959) is a Mozambican politician serving as the fourth President of Mozambique since 2015. He is the current leader of FRELIMO, the party that has governed Mozambique since its independence from Portug ...

. He worked as a civil servant in the 1970s and was Governor of

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between 1987 and 1994. Later he served a short while as MP in 1994 before becoming Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, in which post he served until 1999. Afterwards he became a diplomat in Asia; prior to his appointment as Prime Minister, Rosario served as Ambassador to Indonesia.

Career

Rosário was born in Maxixe on 26 October 1954. He studied economics at the

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. He then went to the United Kingdom to study Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development Economy at

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, obtaining an Msc. In 1977 he started working for the Ministry of Public Works in the Economics and Finances department, where he stayed on until 1983. Between 1980 and 1982 he was an evening lecturer at the Instituto Industrial de Maputo. In 1983 he became the main economist for the agricultural firm Citrinos de Manica. In 1987 he was named Governor of

and prime secretary of the Provincial Committee. In 1994 he was briefly a member of the Assembly of the Republic before being made Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries. In 1999 his term as Minister ended. He was High Commissioner of Mozambique to

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and Sri Lanka from 2002 to 2008. In 2009 he became Ambassador to

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, with concurrent accreditation to

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and

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. He remained in that post until his appointment as Prime Minister on 17 January 2015 by President

. After the formation of a Government under Rosário, opposition politicians from

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complained that all 22 ministers were from the

party and that the government therefore was not inclusionary. In January 2020 he started a new term as Prime Minister. On 3 March, 2022, Rosário, along with six members of the Cabinet, were dismissed by President Nyusi.

Personal life

Rosário is a football enthusiast and he played in the junior national team. He also set up a diplomat team while posted in Indonesia.

References

1954 births Alumni of Wye College Ambassadors of Mozambique to East Timor Ambassadors of Mozambique to Indonesia Ambassadors of Mozambique to Malaysia Ambassadors of Mozambique to Singapore Ambassadors of Mozambique to Thailand Eduardo Mondlane University alumni FRELIMO politicians Agriculture ministers of Mozambique Fisheries ministers of Mozambique Governors of Zambezia Province Living people Members of the Assembly of the Republic (Mozambique) People from Maxixe Prime Ministers of Mozambique {{Mozambique-politician-stub