Ivone Soares

Ivone Soares (born 23 October 1979) is a Mozambican politician. She is the deputy leader of Mozambican National Resistance (known as RENAMO) and leads its parliamentary party in the Assembly of the Republic. Soares is also a member of the Pan-African Parliament where she is vice-president of youth. She was the target of an attempted assassination in September 2016.

Career Ivone Soares was born on 23 October 1979 in Bairro Central in Maputo. Her father was a technical engineer for Radio Mozambique and her uncle is opposition leader and RENAMO politician Afonso Dhlakama. She since became a member of the Assembly of the Republic, representing RENAMO in the Zambezia Province.

Soares is secretary for women politicians in the Democratic Union of Africa, a continental centrist association.

In Mozambique Soares has encouraged citizens to cooperate with census officials to improve the quality of information recorded.

Soares was subject to an attempted assassination on 8 September 2016 by an assassin on a motorbike. The attempt failed when his AK-47 type weapon jammed and Soares was able to escape by car.