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Daviz Simango

Mozambican politician

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1 Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in Southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini (Swaziland) and South Africa to the southwest. The sovereign state is separated from the Comoros, Mayotte and Madagascar by the Mozambique Channel to the east. The capital and largest city of Mozambique is Maputo.More
2 Beira, Mozambique
Beira is the capital and largest city of Sofala Province, where the Pungwe River meets the Indian Ocean, in the central region of Mozambique. It is the fourth-largest city by population in Mozambique, after Maputo, Matola and Nampula. Beira had a population of 397,368 in 1997, which grew to 530,604 in 2019. A coastal city, it holds the regionally significant Port of Beira, which acts as a gateway for both the central interior portion of the country as well as the land-locked nations of Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi.More
3 Democratic Movement of Mozambique
The Democratic Movement of Mozambique is a political party in Mozambique. Founded on 6 March 2009, it is led by Daviz Simango, who is the Mayor of Beira. It formed after breaking with RENAMO, the main opposition party.More
Daviz Simango
Mayor of Beira
Assumed office
2003
Preceded byChivavice Muchangage
Personal details
Born(1964-02-07)7 February 1964
Tanganyika
Died22 February 2021(2021-02-22) (aged 57)
NationalityMozambican
Political partyMDM (2009–2021)
RENAMO (1997–2009)
RelationsUria Simango
(father)
Alma materEduardo Mondlane University
ProfessionCivil Engineer
Websitewww.davizsimango.org

Daviz Mbepo Simango (7 February 1964 – 22 February 2021) was a Mozambican politician who was Mayor of Beira from 2003 to the day of his death in February 2021. He was also the President of the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM). He was son of Uria Timoteo Simango the first Vice-President of FRELIMO and Celina Tapua Simango. He joined the opposition RENAMO in 1997 and became Mayor of Beira in 2003 as its candidate.[1] On March 6, 2009, he founded a new party, the MDM.

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1 Uria Simango
Uria Timoteo Simango was a Mozambican Presbyterian minister and prominent leader of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) during the liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial rule. His precise date of death is unknown as he was extrajudicially executed by the post-independence government of Samora Machel.More
2 FRELIMO
The Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO), from the Portuguese Frente de Libertação de Moçambique is the dominant political party in Mozambique. Founded in 1962, FRELIMO began as a nationalist movement fighting for the independence of the Portuguese Overseas Province of Mozambique. Independence was achieved in June 1975 after the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon the previous year. At the party's 3rd Congress in February 1977, it became an officially Marxist–Leninist political party. It identified as the Frelimo Party (Partido Frelimo).More
3 RENAMO
The Mozambican National Resistance is a militant organization and political movement in Mozambique. Originally sponsored by the Rhodesian Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), it was founded in 1975 as part of an anti-communist backlash against the country's ruling FRELIMO party.More

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2009 presidential election

Simango was the MDM candidate in the 28 October 2009 presidential election.[2] He placed third with 8.6% of the total vote in the election.[3]

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2009 Mozambican general election
General elections to elect the president, Assembly of the Republic, and Provincial Assemblies was held in Mozambique on 28 October 2009. Incumbent President Armando Guebuza ran for re-election as the FRELIMO candidate; he was challenged by opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama, who had stood as the RENAMO candidate in every presidential election since 1994. Also standing were Daviz Simango, the Mayor of Beira, who was a RENAMO member before founding his own party, the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM), earlier in 2009.More

Death

Daviz Simango died on 22 February 2021, fifteen days after his birthday. He was 57 years old.[4] He was evacuated Saturday night on 13th of February to a hospital in South Africa due to a "sudden" health problem. Details on the illness of the leader of the third largest party in Mozambique, are unknown.

References

  1. ^ Tembe, Jose (27 October 2009). "Daviz Mbepo Simango". BBC News. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
  2. ^ "Mozambique's President Expected to Win Re-election". The New York Times. October 28, 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
  3. ^ "Mozambique's Guebuza re-elected in landslide", AFP, 11 November 2009.
  4. ^ "Mozambican opposition mayor, climate fighter dies aged 57: family". France 24. February 22, 2021.

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