{"id":175203,"date":"2024-06-25T01:17:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T23:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-government-admits-endemic-corruption\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T01:17:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T23:17:48","slug":"mozambique-government-admits-endemic-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-government-admits-endemic-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Government Admits &#8216;Endemic Corruption&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Maputo \u2014 In a key policy document, the Mozambican government has admitted there is &#8220;endemic corruption&#8217; in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">This startling admission comes in the National Development Strategy (ENDE), for the period 2025-2044, which the Council of Ministers (Cabinet) approved last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">&#8220;The endemic corruption in various sectors of society endangers the trust of citizens and the effectiveness of governance&#8217;, the document warns. &#8220;As a result there is a reduction in public confidence, theft of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406240664.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 In a key policy document, the Mozambican government has admitted there is &#8220;endemic corruption&#8217; in the country. This startling admission comes in the National Development Strategy (ENDE), for the period 2025-2044, which the Council of Ministers (Cabinet) approved last week. &#8220;The endemic corruption in various sectors of society endangers the trust of citizens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":175204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[7988,258,256,4723,23147,6427,4704,682,257,254],"class_list":["post-175203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-admits","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-corruption","tag-endemic","tag-government","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}