Oldemiro Balói
Oldemiro Júlio Marques Balói (born April 9, 1955) is a Mozambican political figure who has served in the government of Mozambique as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2008 to 2017.
Career
Balói served as Deputy Minister of Cooperation in the early 1990s, then as Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism from 1994 to 1999. He was subsequently active in the Millennium-BIM (International Bank of Mozambique), serving as a member of its board of directors and its executive board.[1] On March 10, 2008 he was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs, replacing Alcinda Abreu.[2]
gollark: Market systems can make this work pretty well - you can sell things and use them to buy other things, and ultimately it's driven by what consumers are interested in buying.
gollark: Consider: in our modern economy, there are probably around (order of magnitude) a hundred million different sorts of thing people or organizations might need.
gollark: So you have to *vote* on who gets everything?
gollark: If you have some random authority decide who needs them, then... well, that won't really work very well - it doesn't scale to more complex things than allocating one resource, and that is obviously uncool central power.
gollark: If you just *ask*, everyone will go "yes, I really need a bee".
References
- "President undertakes major reshuffle", Mozambique News Agency, number 357, April 21, 2008.
- "Moz president 'does it again'", Sapa, March 11, 2008.
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