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Chapo calls on Mozambican youth to demonstrate patriotism – AIM
10:15 CAT | 10 Aug 2025
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Mozambican President Daniel Chapo on Friday urged young Mozambicans to “consolidate national unity and strengthen patriotism”.
Speaking in Maputo to about 1,000 delegates from every district in the country at the opening of the Eighth National Youth Conference, Chapo declared “patriotism is not an empty slogan. Patriotism means serving the country with dignity, respect, responsibility, honesty and work, without expecting any reward. It means refusing corruption and fighting against disinformation. It means protecting national resources and striving for the good image of our nation within and beyond our national borders”.
“We are a multi-cultural country, and this diversity makes us one people and one nation”, he stressed. “Union strengthens our society and strengthens solidarity, cooperation and hope for a promising future. Promoting national unity means recognising that this was the secret for attaining our independence”.
Chapo declared that young people “are the driving force of development. What is most important is that each person, wherever they are, should play their part for development. Lamenting is no solution. Giving up is also no solution. It is necessary to go after opportunities, and to dream high, despite the challenges, because great victories are only won after great battles”.
The President stressed that all government departments have been instructed to prioritise young people. Unspecified measures would be taken against those who ignored this guideline “because Youth is the Agenda of the Government and the Presidential Priority”.
Chapo said “we have inaugurated jobs centres in Angoche and Mocuba and we have built a professional training centre in Chimoio to provide young people with better employment opportunities”.
The government, he added, and provided over 5,000 laptop computers to 25 higher education institutions for young people from poor families. The goal was to raise this number to 15,000 laptops.
Chapo said that in July he had launched a project to create urbanised areas with basic infrastructures where young people will be able to build their own homes. “The purpose of this project”, he added, “is to provide youths with plots of land that have roads, water supply and electricity”, on which they could build houses.
5,000 such plots of land would be distributed across the country over the next five years.
At the same time, he had launched the Local Economic Development Fund (FDEL) which will finance projects to increase production and create jobs, particularly for young Mozambicans. 60 per cent of this fund is intended for young people.
The fund will be spread across all districts and municipalities. The money takes the form of loans, not grants, and, when he launched it, Chapo had stressed that all the money must be repaid.
This looks like the resumption of a flagship project of one of his predecessors, Armando Guebuza, which became known as “the seven million”, since the fund distributed seven million meticais per year per district. Most of this money was never repaid, and the fund was never audited.
The government has not yet announced how much money will be available from the state budget for the new fund.
Source: AIM
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