Mozambique: History

16th Century Portuguese explorers set up mining enterprises and trading posts in present-day Mozambique.

18th Century Mozambique becomes a major slave-trading center.

1950s-60s The colonial economy thrives, attracting thousands of Portuguese settlers to Mozambique.

1975 Mozambique becomes independent after a decade-long war of independence against the Portuguese.

1992

A 16-year civil war that claimed the lives of 1 million Mozambicans comes to an end with the signing of a peace deal in Rome.

2003 Brazil pledges to build a plant in Mozambique that will produce antiretroviral drugs for HIV-AIDS sufferers.

2007 China's President Hu Jintao visits Mozambique and promises interest-free loans for agriculture, health, and education.

2009 Mozambique receives a $500 million loan from the European Union and Danish and Dutch governments to link coal-mines in northern Moatize to the port of Nacala.

2015

Armando Guebuza served two terms and then passed executive power to Filipe Nyusi.

2019

Filipe Nyusi was relected as the leader of the Frelimo party.