Mozambique has a new energy minister as the country’s president, Filipe Nyusi, sacked the heads of four ministries. Ernesto Max Elias Tonela has been appointed to replace Leticia da Silva Klemens as minister of energy and mineral resources.
The country’s new energy minister is an economist by training and previously served as commerce minister. Tonela has also worked previously on the board of the Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB), the company responsible for Mozambique’s 2,000 MW hydroelectric dam.
Nyusi’s offices said Jose Condugua Antonio Pacheco was named the new foreign minister, replacing OldemiroBaloi. The president also replaced the ministers of industry and trade and of agriculture and food security.