{"id":85858,"date":"2025-07-02T20:31:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/costa-meets-mozambique-president-chapo-in-seville"},"modified":"2025-07-02T20:52:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:52:17","slug":"costa-meets-mozambique-president-chapo-in-seville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/costa-meets-mozambique-president-chapo-in-seville","title":{"rendered":"Costa Meets Mozambique President Chapo in Seville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>The President of the European Council on Monday congratulated Mozambique on the 50th anniversary of its independence, saying that the European Union (EU) had built a \u201cstrong and dynamic partnership\u201d with Maputo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my meeting with President Daniel Chapo, I congratulated Mozambique on its 50 years of independence. It was the first of the last four Portuguese-speaking African countries to become independent, marking the end of the European colonial era,\u201d wrote Anto\u0301nio Costa on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The President of the European Council and former Prime Minister of Portugal considered that, over the years, \u201cthe EU and Mozambique have built a strong and dynamic partnership, based on a shared economic, social and security agenda\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The EU\u2019s presence in Mozambique in recent years has mainly been expressed through training missions to help the Mozambican military in their attempts to defeat the radical group Al-Shabaab, an affiliate of Al-Qaeda in that region of Africa, and through humanitarian support for displaced people in the Cabo Delgado region, in the north of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Mozambique became independent from Portugal on 25 June, 1975, followed in the same year by Cape Verde (5 July), Sa\u0303o Tome\u0301 and Pri\u0301ncipe (12 July) and Angola (11 November).<\/p>\n<p>Guinea-Bissau had already unilaterally declared independence, on 24 September, 1973, and Portugal recognised it on 10 September, 1974, months after the revolution that overthrew the Portuguese dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Mozambique<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. The President of the European Council on Monday congratulated Mozambique on the 50th anniversary of its independence, saying that the European Union (EU) had built a \u201cstrong and dynamic partnership\u201d with Maputo. \u201cIn my meeting with President Daniel Chapo, I congratulated Mozambique on its 50 years of independence. 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