{"id":186277,"date":"2024-12-10T13:20:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T11:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-violence-fuelled-by-historical-grievances-and-civil-war-politics\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T13:20:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T11:20:45","slug":"mozambique-violence-fuelled-by-historical-grievances-and-civil-war-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-violence-fuelled-by-historical-grievances-and-civil-war-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique Violence Fuelled By Historical Grievances and Civil War Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em> Ongoing protests in Mozambique have highlighted deep-rooted political discontent following October&#8217;s controversial elections and a long history of grievances since the country gained independence in 1975. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Mozambique is currently embroiled in a wave of violence that has resulted in upto 90 deaths and thousands more injured during protests that have sewpt across the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The riots erupted in major cities &#8211; such as Maputo, Nampula, and Zambezia &#8211; amid <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/africa\/20241021-mozambique-opposition-calls-strike-amid-election-fraud-claims-and-assassinations\" rel=\"noopener\">allegations of electoral fraud<\/a> after the 9&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412100291.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>Ongoing protests in Mozambique have highlighted deep-rooted political discontent following October&#8217;s controversial elections and a long history of grievances since the country gained independence in 1975. Mozambique is currently embroiled in a wave of violence that has resulted in upto 90 deaths and thousands more injured during protests that have sewpt across the nation. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":186278,"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":[258,256,8227,39414,14943,10325,4704,682,257,6916,254,2148,6618],"class_list":["post-186277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-civil","tag-fuelled","tag-grievances","tag-historical","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-south-africa-today","tag-violence","tag-war"],"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\/186277","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=186277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}