{"id":190896,"date":"2025-02-08T17:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T15:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-blogger-killed-editor-missing-as-mozambiques-press-freedom-crisis-deepens\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T17:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T15:51:10","slug":"mozambique-blogger-killed-editor-missing-as-mozambiques-press-freedom-crisis-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-blogger-killed-editor-missing-as-mozambiques-press-freedom-crisis-deepens\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Blogger Killed, Editor Missing As Mozambique&#8217;s Press Freedom Crisis Deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">&#8220;Help. I got shot and they keep shooting&#8230;I am dying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">These were among the last words that Mozambican blogger Albino Sibia streamed live on Facebook on December 12, 2024, after a police officer shot him twice in the back as he was filming police action against protestors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Sibia, also known as Mano Shottas, died about four hours later, as he was taken from a local clinic to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The police &#8220;didn&#8217;t let him rest even on hisfuneral,&#8221; Sibia&#8217;s widow, V\u00e2nia Tembe, told CPJ. Police opened fire&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502060032.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>&#8220;Help. I got shot and they keep shooting&#8230;I am dying.&#8221; These were among the last words that Mozambican blogger Albino Sibia streamed live on Facebook on December 12, 2024, after a police officer shot him twice in the back as he was filming police action against protestors. Sibia, also known as Mano Shottas, died about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":190897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn07.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661328:fa001a8bad69957961a30c26d4c360fe:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,13321,3723,9626,10561,7636,4327,6947,4704,682,10439,257,6010,254],"class_list":["post-190896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blogger","tag-crisis","tag-deepens","tag-editor","tag-freedom","tag-killed","tag-missing","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-mozambiques","tag-news","tag-press","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn07.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661328:fa001a8bad69957961a30c26d4c360fe:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190896","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=190896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}