{"id":183050,"date":"2024-10-22T05:58:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T03:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-opposition-calls-strike-amid-election-fraud-claims-and-assassinations\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T05:58:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T03:58:22","slug":"mozambique-opposition-calls-strike-amid-election-fraud-claims-and-assassinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-opposition-calls-strike-amid-election-fraud-claims-and-assassinations\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique Opposition Calls Strike Amid Election Fraud Claims and Assassinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\"><em> Mozambique&#8217;s opposition has called for a general strike on Monday, with nationwide demonstrations to protest alleged fraud in the 9 October elections. While official results are still pending, the protests follow the recent assassination of two close associates of opposition leader and presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane &#8211; his lawyer Elvino Dias and Podemos party member Paulo Guamba. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Police clamped down on the opposition demonstration in central Maputo on Monday morning, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/pt\/%C3%A1frica-lus%C3%B3fona\/20241021-mo%C3%A7ambique-pol%C3%ADcia-lan%C3%A7ou-g%C3%A1s-lacrimog%C3%A9neo-par-dispersar-marchas-pac%C3%ADficas\" rel=\"noopener\">RFI&#8217;s&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410210591.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>Mozambique&#8217;s opposition has called for a general strike on Monday, with nationwide demonstrations to protest alleged fraud in the 9 October elections. While official results are still pending, the protests follow the recent assassination of two close associates of opposition leader and presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane &#8211; his lawyer Elvino Dias and Podemos party member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":183051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn04.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00260617:b5285a3393a30a6a31dada03fe764e01:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,35195,6137,8117,3119,8666,4704,682,257,5675,254,2080],"class_list":["post-183050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assassinations","tag-calls","tag-claims","tag-election","tag-fraud","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strike"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn04.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00260617:b5285a3393a30a6a31dada03fe764e01:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183050","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=183050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}