{"id":177055,"date":"2024-07-22T14:21:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T12:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-poor-and-rural-mozambicans-hit-hard-by-lack-of-access-connection-to-electricity-grid\/"},"modified":"2024-07-22T14:21:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T12:21:18","slug":"mozambique-poor-and-rural-mozambicans-hit-hard-by-lack-of-access-connection-to-electricity-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-poor-and-rural-mozambicans-hit-hard-by-lack-of-access-connection-to-electricity-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: &#8216;Poor and Rural Mozambicans Hit Hard By Lack of Access, Connection to Electricity Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Majority of citizens say their government is doing a poor job of providing a reliable supply of electricity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fewer than half (47%) of Mozambicans live in zones served by the national electricity grid. o Only 22% of rural residents are within reach of the grid, compared to 88% of urban residents. More educated and economically better-off citizens are also far more likely to live in zones served by the grid than those with less schooling and lower economic status.<\/li>\n<li>Similarly, 44% of&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407220152.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>Majority of citizens say their government is doing a poor job of providing a reliable supply of electricity. Key findings Fewer than half (47%) of Mozambicans live in zones served by the national electricity grid. o Only 22% of rural residents are within reach of the grid, compared to 88% of urban residents. More educated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":177056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00390440:d2878581be22fd3f9ed08d1ddc2e42b1:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[6450,258,256,12402,4895,14458,9309,8032,7112,9410,4704,682,257,8943,6309,254],"class_list":["post-177055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-connection","tag-electricity","tag-grid","tag-hard","tag-hit","tag-lack","tag-mozambicans","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-poor","tag-rural","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00390440:d2878581be22fd3f9ed08d1ddc2e42b1:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177055","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=177055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}