Daniel Chapo of Mozambique’s long-ruling Frelimo celebration was sworn in as president on Wednesday at a sparsely attended ceremony after months of protests in opposition to his disputed election victory.
An area civil society monitoring group says greater than 300 folks have been killed in clashes with safety forces for the reason that Oct. 9 vote, which the opposition says Frelimo received by way of vote-rigging and Western observers say was not free and truthful.
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Frelimo denies accusations of electoral fraud.
It has dominated Mozambique for the reason that finish of the battle in opposition to Portuguese colonial rule in 1975, clinging on all through a 15-year civil battle that killed 1,000,000 folks earlier than a 1992 truce.
Chapo informed a gaggle of about 1,500 supporters from a stage within the capital Maputo that social and political stability could be his authorities’s prime precedence.
Daniel Chapo of Mozambique’s long-ruling Frelimo celebration was sworn in as president on Wednesday (January 15) at a sparsely attended ceremony after months of protests in opposition to his disputed election victory. (Reuters)
He additionally promised to shrink the scale of the federal government by decreasing the variety of ministries, sort out youth unemployment and prioritise well being and training.
Town centre was largely abandoned with a heavy police and armed forces presence, Reuters witnesses stated.
Cyril Ramaphosa, president of neighbouring South Africa, was one of many few heads of state attending Chapo’s inauguration.
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Opposition chief Venancio Mondlane, who official outcomes say got here second to Chapo within the presidential election, returned from self-imposed exile final week and has urged his supporters to proceed demonstrating.
The post-election protests quantity to the most important in opposition to Frelimo in Mozambique’s historical past and have affected overseas companies working within the resource-rich southern African nation of 35 million folks. They’ve additionally disrupted cross-border commerce and compelled some to flee to neighbouring nations.
