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Maputo \u2014 The riots and looting of December have plunged Mozambique into “almost a state of siege’, Defence Minister Cristovao Chume has claimed.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Wednesday, in Maputo, at a ceremony where the new director of the Centre for Strategic Analysis of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP), Joao Pires, was sworn into office, Chume admitted that the country had descended into chaos which attempted to reduce the authority of the state “almost to nothing’.<\/p>\n
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Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Maputo \u2014 The riots and looting of December have plunged Mozambique into “almost a state of siege’, Defence Minister Cristovao Chume has claimed. Speaking on Wednesday, in Maputo, at a ceremony where the new director of the Centre for Strategic Analysis of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP), Joao Pires, was sworn into office, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":190813,"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":[258,256,5941,4704,682,257,4940,254,6017],"class_list":["post-190812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-minister","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-siege","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state"],"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\/190812","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=190812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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