Esperança Bias (born 28 July 1958) is a Mozambican politician. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Economy at the

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. From 1999 to 2005, she served as the Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources (beginning in 1999). From 2005 to 2015, she served as Mozambique's Minister of Mineral Resources. In 2015, incoming president

Filipe Nyusi Filipe Jacinto Nyusi (; born 9 February 1959) is a Mozambican politician who was the fourth president of Mozambique from 2015 to 2025. He has also served as the Chairman of the Southern African Development Community from 2020 to 2022. During his ...

replaced her with

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. In February 2016, she was elected to the Secretariat of Mozambique's

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party as Secretary for Administration and Finance. She was Speaker of the Assembly of the Republic from January 2020 to January 2025.

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