{"id":186115,"date":"2024-12-08T01:15:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T23:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambiques-deadly-protests-how-the-country-got-here\/"},"modified":"2024-12-08T01:15:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T23:15:54","slug":"mozambiques-deadly-protests-how-the-country-got-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambiques-deadly-protests-how-the-country-got-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique&#8217;s Deadly Protests &#8211; How the Country Got Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">The protests that followed Mozambique&#8217;s contested October elections have been the most protracted and deadliest since multiparty democracy <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.accf-francophonie.org\/2019\/03\/mozambique_const-en.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">in 1990<\/a>. Police have reportedly killed <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/clubofmozambique.com\/news\/mozambique-opposition-leader-says-50-killed-in-protests-270891\/\" rel=\"noopener\">at least 50<\/a> since <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/mozambiques-2024-elections-9-major-challenges-that-will-face-the-new-president-240923\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Chapo<\/a>, from the ruling Frelimo, was declared winner by a fanciful <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/10\/24\/mozambique-ruling-party-declared-winner-of-election-amid-fraud-claims\" rel=\"noopener\">70%<\/a>. The party has been in power since independence in 1975.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">A parallel count by the small party, Optimistic Party for the Development of Mozambique (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/aimnews.org\/2024\/10\/29\/podemos-claims-victory-in-parallel-count\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Podemos<\/a>), which supported opposition candidate Ven\u00e2ncio Mondlane, claimed he was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412060012.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>The protests that followed Mozambique&#8217;s contested October elections have been the most protracted and deadliest since multiparty democracy in 1990. Police have reportedly killed at least 50 since Daniel Chapo, from the ruling Frelimo, was declared winner by a fanciful 70%. The party has been in power since independence in 1975. A parallel count by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":186116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00260854:e8962aa187cfb70a2ab3f1b1cce31b0f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,5042,9555,682,10439,257,5253,254],"class_list":["post-186115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-country","tag-deadly","tag-mozambique-news","tag-mozambiques","tag-news","tag-protests","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00260854:e8962aa187cfb70a2ab3f1b1cce31b0f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186115","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=186115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}