{"id":44275,"date":"2026-09-01T10:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=44275"},"modified":"2026-09-01T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:46:08","slug":"mozambique-president-appoints-new-central-bank-governor-deputy-governor","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/mozambique-president-appoints-new-central-bank-governor-deputy-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique President appoints new central bank Governor, Deputy Governor \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Daniel Francisco Chapo has appointed Waldemar Fernando de Sousa as Governor of the Bank of Mozambique and \u200cFelisberto Dinis Navalha as Deputy Governor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>De Sousa replaces Rogerio Zandamela, who served as the Governor of the Bank of Mozambique from August 2016 until August 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As Governor, de \u2060Sousa will chair the central bank&#8217;s board of directors, represent the institution before the government and domestic and international bodies, and oversee the bank&#8217;s senior management and activities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Navalha, as Deputy Governor, will serve on the board of directors and will stand in for the governor in \u200ccases \u2060of absence or incapacity, while carrying out duties assigned or delegated under the law.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Bank of Mozambique is responsible for key functions related to \u2060monetary and financial stability, including conducting monetary and exchange-rate policy, managing the country&#8217;s foreign assets and supervising financial \u2060institutions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The two appointees are scheduled to be sworn in on Wednesday, September 2 in \u2060a ceremony chaired by Chapo at his office in Maputo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":44276,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,44],"class_list":["post-44275","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"President Chapo appoints new Governor and Deputy Governor to lead Bank of Mozambique","published_date":"2026-09-01 10:44:31","news_description":"President Chapo appoints new Governor and Deputy Governor to lead Bank of Mozambique","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44277,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44275\/revisions\/44277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=44275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}