When 5’2 Tall Meloni Saw Mozambique President. He’s 6’8. The Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was in a very visible shock when she received Mozambican President Daniel Chapo in the state of Rome last week. Under the Italian government headquarters, Meloni and Chapo were standing side by side and this contrast can not be overlooked.
There were cameras to record the time when Meloni came out to shake hands with President Chapo. She raised her eyes to him and smiled sheepishly. At one time she seemed to be saying something at least and with an expression of amazement.
Daniel Chapo who is 48 is said to be about 6 feet 8 inches tall and Prime Minister Meloni is about 5 feet 2 inches tall. Photographers were reported to be on their knees or even lie on the floor in order to fit both Meloni and Chapo in a frame.
Chapo is a basketball fan, who has already gained publicity on his height when he took pictures with other global leaders.
The response by Meloni was soon the buzz of the social media.
One user stated, “Reaction of Giorgia Meloni, the response was, Wow, I thought I was tall in heels.”
One of them said, “Georgina Meloni appears to be among those rare social actors who have been blessed with transparency in their emotions. She’s just too real.”
In a post by a source, reporters, particularly photojournalists, were not able to place their cameras in a way to capture pictures when Mozambican President Daniel Francisco Chapo met Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome due to the large height difference.
The neck of Meloni must be paining, a comment read.
One of the users commented, The lady is an open book.
The conference included some stern deliberations in the areas of energy, trade, and cooperation following Mattei Plan of Italy toward Africa.
Daniel Chapo is the first president of Mozambique to have been born after the country achieved its independence. He assumed the office earlier this year after securing almost 70 per cent majority in the presidential end of the year election.
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Chapo (48) is the first post independence-born leader in the country. He assumed the presidency in January at a particularly difficult moment in the nation, during financial hardships, a humanitarian crisis and armed uprisings in the north and in the light of continuing post election violence.
However, the new leader claims he has a vision of the country, and a way to implement it, of which he introduced the two-year-long “inclusive national dialogue” he announced in the capital on September 10.
Chapo at the launch made it clear that the voices of all are heard, all hands can be used to construct and that all dreams should have their place in the post election protests, which had a leading voice in the figure of Venancio Mondlane. None of the Mozambicans are left out.
Months ago, Chapo has been interviewed in-depth by the Al Jazeera television where he talked about the difficulties and opportunities of Mozambique and the dialogue between them that would help create a more inclusive and peaceful future.
In the case of Chapo one has to know the long history of Mozambique as an object of empire, its bloody war of independence and the bloodthirsty civil war which was finally settled by his Mozambican Liberation Front ( FRELIMO ) party with a peace accord with rebels of the Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) in 1992.
He said: sitting in a room with wooden panelling in the palace, 500 years of colonisation and of independence just a 50 years. And in these 50 years, we had 16 years of war, which devastated public and home assets, burnt shops, factories, as well as railways and killed over one million Mozambicans.
He says that many of these challenges were conquered through active attempts on unity and capacity of the country to listen and negotiate.
In the 1500s, Portuguese colonialists initially took control over Mozambique. This is a resource endowed Southern African country bordering the Indian Ocean. When nations in the continent were becoming independent by mid 20 th century, FRELIMO was establishing as an anti colonial liberation movement and in 1964, they began an armed struggle to achieve independence.
Freedom reigns in this country but it takes more work to cement unity and restore trust, Chapo admits.
It is one of the motivations of the national dialogue of government.
The movement will unite the people at both ends of the arena- the civil society, academia, the youth, women, religious groups and every political party. The objective, he said Chapo, is inclusive governance in which every Mozambican no matter his or her ethnicity, his or her religion or political group must be treated as Mozambican first.
The plea by the president to be united is just at the right time. Should it be successful, the dialogue undertaking might restructure the relationship between the government and the society, end the policy of electoral animosity in the country, and place Mozambique on a sustainable development path. But deep wounds and scepticism is still present in many who are still living in abject poverty and violence.
Chapo, in its turn, is optimistic and ends with an overall long-term agenda to combat corruption, enhance meritocracy, embrace diversity and enlist the young people.
Our vision as I stated in the next 50 years is peace, security, prosperity, to help develop a prosperous, sustainable Mozambique, which everyone will enjoy the prosperity of the nation.
He is of the opinion that the Mozambicans only need to listen to each other before the country can have the unity and peace it deserves.
It is demonstrated in the world conflict resolution: all wars are finally resolved at the negotiation table: in Ukraine-Russia, in Israel-Palestine or in the DRC. Mozambique shall not be the exception; and Chapo had a row of national Mozambican flags in red, green, black, and yellow, with the national arms of an open book, a hoe and a rifle imprinted upon them.
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