In five days, Daniel Chapo will be inaugurated as the fifth President of the Republic of Mozambique, at an event that is expected to be attended by 2,500 guests, both national and foreign.

Preparations for the swearing-in ceremony of the new President of the Republic are well underway, according to the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Eldevina Materula.

The event will take place in Maputo's Independence Square next Wednesday.

"I have to say that preparations for the ceremony began on the seventh and are expected to end with the general rehearsals on the 14th. We're moving at a good pace and there's nothing to say that we won't finish this preparation," said Materula, adding that "we're expecting around 2,500 people"

She invited Mozambicans to attend the solemn event and also assured that all security protocols were in place

 "This is a constitutionally public ceremony. So all Mozambicans are invited. We've been working and yesterday we worked with the Ministry of the Interior, which assured us that security issues are properly taken care of so that all Mozambicans who want to can come to the venue."

Without revealing the names, she said that the invitations abroad had been sent to statesmen from the Southern African Development Community, the African Union and Europe.

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