Daniel Chapo of Mozambique’s long-ruling Frelimo party was sworn in as president on Wednesday at a sparsely attended ceremony after months of protests against his disputed election victory.<\/p>\n
A local civil society monitoring group says more than 300 people have been killed in clashes with security forces since the\u00a0Oct. 9 vote, which the opposition says Frelimo won through vote-rigging and Western observers say was not free and fair.<\/p>\n
Frelimo denies accusations of electoral fraud.<\/p>\n
It has ruled Mozambique since the end of the war against Portuguese colonial rule in 1975, clinging on throughout a 15-year civil war that killed a million people before a 1992 truce.<\/p>\n
Chapo told a group of about 1,500 supporters from a stage in the capital Maputo that social and political stability would be his government’s top priority.<\/p>\n
He also promised to shrink the size of the government by reducing the number of ministries, tackle youth unemployment and prioritise health and education.<\/p>\n
The city centre was largely deserted with a heavy police and army presence, Reuters witnesses said.<\/p>\n
Cyril Ramaphosa, president of neighbouring South Africa, was one of the few heads of state attending Chapo’s inauguration.<\/p>\n
Opposition leader\u00a0Venancio Mondlane, who official results say came second to Chapo in the presidential election, returned from\u00a0self-imposed exile last week and has urged his supporters to continue demonstrating.<\/p>\n
The post-election protests amount to the largest against Frelimo in Mozambique’s history and have affected foreign businesses operating in the resource-rich southern African country of 35 million people. They have also\u00a0disrupted cross-border trade\u00a0and forced some to\u00a0flee\u00a0to neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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