US EditionMozambique After 50 Years of Independence - What's There to Celebrate?
- Mozambique marked the 50th anniversary of its independence from Portugal on June 25, 2025, with celebrations led by President Daniel Chapo in Nangade, Cabo Delgado province.
- This independence followed a liberation war led by the Frelimo party since 1964, amid the end of a decades-long dictatorial colonial regime under Portugal until 1974.
- Despite economic potential and growing civic awareness since 2023, Mozambique faces serious challenges including high youth unemployment, post-election protests with over 300 deaths in late 2024, and ongoing jihadist attacks in Cabo Delgado since 2017.
- Historian Luís Covane stated in June 2025 that colonial authorities imposed forced labor to support Portuguese colonists who could not pay wages, highlighting enduring inequalities that risk national unity.
- Efforts to promote inclusive dialogue and national unity continue amid doubts about Frelimo's willingness to accept electoral outcomes, and a new political movement named 'Povo no Poder' has emerged from recent street protests.
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Mozambique opposition parties believe that, after 50 years of national independence, the country and Mozambicans still struggle for "freedom, equality, fraternity and dignity".
Mozambique after 50 years of independence: What’s to celebrate?
Amid Mozambique’s 50th anniversary celebrations, not everyone has shared newly elected President Daniel Chapo’s attempt to patch up a country torn both politically and socioeconomically. Too much has been lost in the intervening decades.
Mozambique After 50 Years of Independence - What's There to Celebrate?
Analysis - Mozambique's government, led by the Frelimo party, has long been planning celebrations for 2025. It is 50 years since independence, won after an anti-colonial war against Portugal led by the same party.
On 25 June 1975, Mozambique declared its "total and complete independence" from Portugal, a European power that has colonized the territory since the end of the 15th century. The advent of this new African state came after a liberation war waged since 1964 by FRELIMO, the Liberation Front of Mozambique. A review of the key moments of colonization to independence.
Mozambique after 50 years of independence: what’s there to celebrate?
Mozambique’s government, led by the Frelimo party, has long been planning celebrations for 2025. It is 50 years since independence, won after an anti-colonial war against Portugal led by the same party. Something has gone wrong, however, especially in the past two years. Since the country’s popular rapper Azagaia died in March 2023 and peaceful processions in his memory escalated into violent clashes with the police, space has opened up for the …
On 25 June 1975, Mozambique freed itself from the Portuguese colonial yoke. Fifty years later, the country of Southern Africa remains one of the poorest countries and is experiencing a period of great instability. A part of the population, which is no longer afraid to protest despite the reprisals, imputes this generalized sclerosis to Frelimo, the party in power since independence.
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