Former Mozambican Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi Dies: Mozambique
Mocumbi was born in Maputo on 10 April 1941, and became a founder member of the National Union of Mozambican Students , rising to become general secretary and deputy chairperson of this student organization.
This forced Mocumbi to leave Portugal for France, where he continued his medical studies at the University of Poitiers.In 1967 he entered the University of Lausanne, in Switzerland, where he completed his training as a doctor in 1973. In 1975, he obtained a diploma in health planning in the Senegalese capital, Dakar.
He was appointed Minister of Health in 1980, and held this post until 1987, when President Joaquim Chissano appointed him Foreign Minister.
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