# Chapo and Mondlane meet (23 March 2025)

URL: https://allhistories.com/mozambique/timeline/2025-chapo-and-mondlane-meet
Location: Maputo, Mozambique
Themes: main-event

On the night of 23 March 2025 President Daniel Chapo and his main rival, Venancio Mondlane, met in Maputo with the help of civil society mediators. According to Mondlane, they agreed to end the unrest immediately. Agreed measures included medical and psychosocial support for victims, compensation for families of the dead, amnesty for thousands of detainees and a joint task force to monitor the deal. Talks on political inclusion were to follow. The meeting followed months of protests in which, by some counts, more than 350 people were killed and about 4,000 detained. Both sides had previously traded harsh words, and Chapo had in February compared the protests to the Cabo Delgado insurgency. Analysts welcomed the meeting as a glimmer of hope while questioning whether the government would deliver. Parliament later passed laws on a national dialogue and constitutional change. At the date of this event the principal authority over the largest part of present-day Mozambique, by the convention of this dataset, lay with Daniel Chapo, President of Mozambique (2025–present). The government was headed by Prime Minister Maria Benvinda Levy. The meeting reduced the street confrontation and shifted conflict into politics and the courts. It is the main step toward reconciliation after the post-election crisis. It also showed that civil society mediation could succeed where formal institutions had failed. Its terms still depend on implementation by both sides.

## Why it matters
A face-to-face meeting turned a violent standoff toward political dialogue.

Ruler at the Time: [Daniel Chapo](https://allhistories.com/mozambique/rulers/daniel-chapo)

Prime Minister of Mozambique: Maria Benvinda Levy

## Sources
- [Venâncio Mondlane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ven%C3%A2ncio_Mondlane)
- [chapo-mondlane-meeting-presents-a-glimmer-of-hope-for-mozambique-2025-03-28](https://polity.org.za/article/chapo-mondlane-meeting-presents-a-glimmer-of-hope-for-mozambique-2025-03-28)
- [aimnews.org](https://aimnews.org/2025/03/24/chapo-reune-se-com-venancio-mondlane/)