Samora Machel
29 September 1933 – 19 October 1986
Samora Moisés Machel was a Mozambican military commander and politician who led the liberation movement FRELIMO from 1970 and became the first president of independent Mozambique in 1975. Trained as a nurse under Portuguese colonial rule, he joined FRELIMO in the early 1960s and commanded its forces during the war of independence. He died in an aircraft crash near the South African border in 1986.
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Life events
Born into a family of farmers.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWorked in a hospital in the colonial capital, now Maputo.
Left Mozambique to take military training with the liberation movement.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgFRELIMO began its guerrilla campaign in northern Mozambique.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgTook charge of the movement's military organisation.
Succeeded to the leadership after the assassination of Eduardo Mondlane.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe later served as minister of education and culture.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgTook office at independence from Portugal.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe non-aggression pact committed each state to stop supporting the other's armed opponents.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe presidential Tupolev Tu-134 crashed into hills near the Mozambican border.
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