{"id":189268,"date":"2025-01-22T04:31:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T02:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambiques-cycles-of-violence-wont-end-until-frelimos-grip-on-power-is-broken\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T04:31:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T02:31:49","slug":"mozambiques-cycles-of-violence-wont-end-until-frelimos-grip-on-power-is-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambiques-cycles-of-violence-wont-end-until-frelimos-grip-on-power-is-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique&#8217;s Cycles of Violence Won&#8217;t End Until Frelimo&#8217;s Grip On Power Is Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">Mozambique&#8217;s political history has been marred by violence, disputed elections and authoritarian control. The pattern continues. As the 2024 elections have shown, Mozambique remains trapped in a cycle of violence and instability. Mass protests due to widespread allegations of electoral fraud and police violence led to the deaths of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/25\/world\/africa\/mozambique-protests-election.html\" rel=\"noopener\">dozens of people<\/a> and widescale destruction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">My <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/10246029.2022.2158747#:%7E:text=The%20article%20argues%20that%20frictions,a%20precarious%20peace%20in%20Mozambique\" rel=\"noopener\">research<\/a> on peace and security in east and southern Africa has focused on Mozambique&#8217;s post-independence political&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501210540.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 political history has been marred by violence, disputed elections and authoritarian control. The pattern continues. As the 2024 elections have shown, Mozambique remains trapped in a cycle of violence and instability. Mass protests due to widespread allegations of electoral fraud and police violence led to the deaths of dozens of people and widescale destruction. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":189269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn06.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00150715:4f765e5da450a037f96bf1cf87d18eba:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,7710,36158,10289,6847,682,10439,257,7047,254,2148,7462],"class_list":["post-189268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-broken","tag-cycles","tag-frelimos","tag-grip","tag-mozambique-news","tag-mozambiques","tag-news","tag-power","tag-south-africa-today","tag-violence","tag-wont"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn06.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00150715:4f765e5da450a037f96bf1cf87d18eba:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189268","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=189268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}