Pascoal Manuel Mocumbi was a Mozambican politician who served as Prime Minister from 1994 until 2004.
21 Facts About Pascoal Mocumbi
1.
2.
Pascoal Mocumbi began his studies at the Missao de Mocumbi, Inharrime district, Inhambane province, Portuguese East Africa, where he completed primary school, in 1952.
3.
Pascoal Mocumbi attended secondary school at the Liceu Salazar, in Lourenco Marques, between 1953 and 1960.
4.
In 1962, Pascoal Mocumbi participated in the creation of Frente de Libertacao de Mocambique, in Tanzania, and he participated in the elaboration of their Statutes, Program and Resolutions.
5.
In 1967, Pascoal Mocumbi resumed his studies at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, where he graduated as doctor, in 1973.
6.
Pascoal Mocumbi had a Diploma in Sanitary Planning obtained in Dakar, Senegal, in 1975.
7.
Pascoal Mocumbi was called to be part of the Government of the Republic of Mozambique in 1980, having assumed the office of Minister of Health up to 1987.
8.
Pascoal Mocumbi dedicated a special interest to the maternal-infantile health, having given personal contribution, while Minister of health, for the creation of the nurses' maternal-infantile health basic level course.
9.
Pascoal Mocumbi participated in the creation and training of the surgery technicians' course, a fact that contributed to improve the service of obstetric urgencies, as well as of the surgical urgencies, at national level.
10.
Pascoal Mocumbi was co-author of publications such as "Practical Obstetrics", of 1987, and "Interventions in Obstetrics", of 1992.
11.
In 1987, Pascoal Mocumbi assumed the office of Minister of the Foreign Affairs, a position in which he remained up to 1994.
12.
Pascoal Mocumbi gave a special contribution in the co-ordination of the Government's effort for the reconstruction, control of the inflation and economic growth, between 1994 and 1999.
13.
Pascoal Mocumbi left office in February 2004 in a government reshuffle.
14.
Pascoal Mocumbi was a founding member of FRELIMO and the National Liberation Veterans' Association.
15.
Pascoal Mocumbi was member of the Associacao Mocambicana of Health Public, of the Associacao Mocambicana of Defense of the Family and of the Association of the Combatants of the Fight of National Liberation.
16.
Pascoal Mocumbi had a special interest in the World Health Organization and AIDS.
17.
Pascoal Mocumbi was a strong supporter of the South African Malaria Initiative, launched in Pretoria, South Africa, by South African minister of science and technology Mosibudi Mangena.
18.
Between 2004 and 2013, Pascoal Mocumbi served as the High Representative of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership.
19.
Pascoal Mocumbi was married to Adelina Isabel Bernardino Paindane Pascoal Mocumbi and was the father of six children.
20.
Pascoal Mocumbi spoke Cicopi, Citsonga, Portuguese, French, and English, and his hobbies were reading and jogging.
21.
Pascoal Mocumbi died on 25 March 2023, at the age of 81, after several years of poor health.