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Daniel Chapo
5:06 CAT | 20 January 2025
President of Mozambique
Daniel Francisco Chapo was born on January 6, 1977, in the Administrative Post of Inhaminga, district of Cheringoma, in Sofala province.
He is the son of Francisco Chapo (deceased) and Helena dos Santos Chiremba.
Daniel Chapo is the sixth child in a family of 10 siblings, and professes the Christian religion.
His father was an employee of the Mozambique Railways and his mother was a stay-at-home parent. Due to the armed conflict, the Chapo family was forced to leave Inhaminga for the district of Dondo. It was in Dondo, where Daniel Chapo spent his childhood and attended primary school at the Josina Machel Primary School.
In 1996, Daniel Francisco Chapo completed the 10th grade at Dondo Secondary School, then moved to the city of Beira, where he completed secondary school at Samora Machel Secondary School. While attending the second cycle of high school in the same city, Daniel Chapo worked as a broadcaster on Rádio Miramar and presented a sports program between 1997 and 1999.
In 1999. in order to continue his studies, Daniel Chapo moved to Maputo, the country’s capital city, where he enrolled at Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), the largest and oldest higher education institution in the country.
Already in Maputo, he was integrated into Miramar Television as a result of his collaboration with Radio Miramar in Beira. At the headquarters of that television station, Daniel Chapo was a featured reporter and presented a television program called “A Voz do Povo [The Voice of The People’]”.
In 2004 he completed his degree in Law, but continued to invest in his studies, having taken the course in Registry and Notary in the same year at the Legal and Judicial Training Center of Matola, in Maputo province.
In 2005 he was appointed Registrar and Notary in the City of Nacala-Porto, in Nampula province, thus beginning his professional career in this area until 2009. At the invitation of the Pedagogical University Delegation of Nampula, extension of Nacala-Porto, in 2009 Daniel Chapo taught Constitutional Law and Political Science at that higher education institution.
In 2009, as a result of his work and political commitment, Daniel Chapo was appointed Administrator of the District of Nacala-a-Velha, where he promoted the creation of employment opportunities for young people, without discrimination, as well as articulating the installation of large-scale investments.
Even with a busy schedule due to his position as District Administrator, Daniel Chapo decided to continue his studies, this time for a master’s degree in Development Management at the Catholic University of Mozambique in Nampula, in 2014.
In the same year and at the time, he underwent his training as a lawyer to enter the Mozambican Bar Association, where he is member number 544,. He would later voluntarily suspend his membership in the Bar Association due to incompatibility of duties.
In 2015, Daniel Chapo was appointed Administrator of Palma District in Cabo Delgado province. His mission in Palma was short-lived as he was appointed in 2016 by President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi to the post of Governor of Inhambane province.
In April 2019, the Mozambican parliament approved a new legislative package, which now determines that provincial governors become elected. In this context, Daniel Chapo was the head of list for Frelimo in Inhambane and the party won the October 2019 elections, which made Daniel Chapo become the first elected governor in that province.
Daniel Chapo is married to Mrs. Gueta Selemane Chapo, with whom he has three children.
Daniel Chapo plays Basketball and 11-a-side Football.
Daniel Chapo speaks fluent Sena, Ndau, Tswa, Portuguese and English.
He is the fifth president of independent Mozambique, after Samora Machel, Joaquim Chissano, Armando Guebuza, and Filipe Nyusi.
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