José Filomeno Monteiro
José Filomeno Monteiro was a Cape Verde politician who was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2024 to 2025. He was previously ambassador to Belgium, the Netherlands, Hungary and the European Union. He was a Member of Parliament for the Movement for Democracy from 2001 to 2006 and later from 2011 to 2016.
On 9 December 2025, it was announced that Monteiro had died at the age of 70 at the Agostinho Neto Hospital in Praia following a long illness.