Good afternoon. It has become a tradition for many governments to set goals for their first 100 days in office, and Mozambique is no exception. Even Donald Trump set his own 100-day targets. As planning minister Salim Valá noted on Monday, “it is an exercise to test the leadership” of the current government.
President Daniel Chapo, presenting his report, claimed that the overwhelming majority of the goals had been achieved, though many of them were modest — for instance, distributing a few dozen purebred goats across the country’s 154 districts.
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Beyond the payment of the 13th salary for 2024 and partial overtime for teachers and health professionals, what truly caught Mozambicans’ attention were two projects that fell outside the formal 100-day benchmarks: the launch of a project to build 6,000 apartments for young people, and the announcement of a petrochemical city near the Pande and Temane gas fields in Inhambane Province. Also widely applauded were major leadership changes in the police, armed forces, and tax authority.
