Antonio Namburete

Eduardo Namburete (born 1968) is a Mozambican academic and politician. He represented the country's largest opposition party RENAMO in the Assembly of the Republic. He was involved as a mediator in the process which led to the signing of the Maputo Accord in 2019 and was appointed as Mozambique's Ambassador to Algeria in 2024.

Life and career

Eduardo Namburete was in born 1969. He served for 15 years as a deputy of the Assembly of the Republic representing the largest opposition party RENAMO for the constituency of Maputo. In the Assembly, he was a member of the Constitutional, Human Rights and Legal Affairs Committee. In July 2022 he was elected vice-president of the Africa Parliamentarians Network Against Corruption, based in Ghana.

He was involved as a mediator in the peace negotiations between the government of Mozambique and RENAMO which resulted in the signing of the Maputo Accord in 2019. He was a RENAMO representative of the Military Affairs Commission and played an active role in the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) of former combatants.

He is also the founding Dean of and a Senior Lecturer at the Eduardo Mondlane University School of Communication and Arts and has a master's degree in communications from Southern University in Louisiana, US.