Mozambique's disputed election results in Chapo's inauguration as president.

On Wednesday, Daniel Chapo of Mozambique's Frelimo party was inaugurated as president at a ceremony with minimal attendance, following months of demonstrations against his contested election win.

Since the Oct. 9 vote, over 300 individuals have been killed in confrontations with security forces, according to a local civil society monitoring group. The opposition claims that Frelimo won the election through vote-tampering, while Western observers assert that the vote was not conducted fairly.

Frelimo denies accusations of electoral fraud.

Since the end of the war against Portuguese colonial rule in 1975, Mozambique has remained in power, enduring a 15-year civil war that resulted in the deaths of a million people before a 1992 truce.

In Maputo, Chapo addressed a crowd of approximately 1,500 supporters and stated that social and political stability would be his government's top priority.

He pledged to decrease the size of the government through reducing the number of ministries, address youth unemployment, and prioritize health and education.

The city center was mostly empty, with a significant military and police presence, according to Reuters' on-site observers.

Only a few heads of state, including Cyril Ramaphosa, president of South Africa, were present at Chapo's inauguration.

Venancio Mondlane, the opposition leader who came second to Chapo in the presidential election, returned from exile and urged his supporters to continue protesting.

The largest protests against Frelimo in Mozambique's history have occurred after the election, affecting foreign businesses operating in the resource-rich southern African country of 35 million people. These protests have disrupted cross-border trade and forced some to flee to neighboring countries.