{"id":188224,"date":"2025-01-09T02:26:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T00:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-four-elephant-tusks-seized-in-tete\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T02:26:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T00:26:25","slug":"mozambique-four-elephant-tusks-seized-in-tete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-four-elephant-tusks-seized-in-tete\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Four Elephant Tusks Seized in Tete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Maputo \u2014 Mozambique&#8217;s National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) on Sunday aborted an attempted sale of four elephant tusks in M\u00e1go\u00e8 district, in the central province of Tete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">According to Celina Roque, SERNIC spokesperson in Tete, three individuals were arrested in connection with the case. However, the one who is believed to be the mastermind is still on the run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">&#8220;The elephant tusks, which weigh thirty kilos, were seized at the home of one of the detainees. The tusks were to be sold&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501080499.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>Maputo \u2014 Mozambique&#8217;s National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) on Sunday aborted an attempted sale of four elephant tusks in M\u00e1go\u00e8 district, in the central province of Tete. According to Celina Roque, SERNIC spokesperson in Tete, three individuals were arrested in connection with the case. However, the one who is believed to be the mastermind is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188225,"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":[258,256,721,4704,682,257,7936,254,11582,5685],"class_list":["post-188224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-elephant","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-seized","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tete","tag-tusks"],"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\/188224","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=188224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}