{"id":185691,"date":"2024-12-01T13:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-internet-cuts-after-mozambiques-disputed-vote-hit-businesses\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T13:00:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T11:00:20","slug":"mozambique-internet-cuts-after-mozambiques-disputed-vote-hit-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-internet-cuts-after-mozambiques-disputed-vote-hit-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Internet Cuts After Mozambique&#8217;s Disputed Vote Hit Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Uber driver Rofino Fiel said the post-election protests that have convulsed Mozambique for weeks have been disastrous not only because of the running battles on the streets of Maputo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.context.news\/digital-rights\/internet-shutdowns-are-we-likely-to-see-more-in-2024\" rel=\"noopener\">internet shutdowns<\/a> are bleeding his business dry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Like many working in small and medium-sized businesses, often in the informal sector, successive blackouts have cost him dear and there is little relief in sight as the protests over allegations of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/mozambique-early-vote-counting-under-way-after-peaceful-election-2024-10-10\/\" rel=\"noopener\">vote-rigging<\/a> look set to continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">&#8220;This is too much. We are having a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411280011.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>Uber driver Rofino Fiel said the post-election protests that have convulsed Mozambique for weeks have been disastrous not only because of the running battles on the streets of Maputo &#8211; internet shutdowns are bleeding his business dry. Like many working in small and medium-sized businesses, often in the informal sector, successive blackouts have cost him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":185692,"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":[258,256,6817,7210,10422,8032,7162,4704,682,10439,257,254,8588],"class_list":["post-185691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-businesses","tag-cuts","tag-disputed","tag-hit","tag-internet","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-mozambiques","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vote"],"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\/185691","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=185691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}