{"id":206265,"date":"2025-09-04T18:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-attorney-general-calls-for-strategic-response-to-organised-crime\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T18:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:08:14","slug":"mozambique-attorney-general-calls-for-strategic-response-to-organised-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-attorney-general-calls-for-strategic-response-to-organised-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Attorney-General Calls for &#8216;Strategic Response&#8217; to Organised Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Maputo \u2014 Mozambican Attorney-General Americo Letela has called for &#8220;a strategic and multi-sector response&#8217; to the increased sophistication of organised crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"79\">Speaking on Tuesday at the opening of a national meeting of the Central Office for the Fight against Organised and Transnational Crime (GCCCOT), held in the tourist resort of Ponta d&#8217;Ouro, in the southernmost district of Matutuine, Letela pointed in particular to the increase in drug trafficking along Mozambique&#8217;s lengthy and unprotected&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509040027.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 Mozambican Attorney-General Americo Letela has called for &#8220;a strategic and multi-sector response&#8217; to the increased sophistication of organised crime. Speaking on Tuesday at the opening of a national meeting of the Central Office for the Fight against Organised and Transnational Crime (GCCCOT), held in the tourist resort of Ponta d&#8217;Ouro, in the southernmost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":206266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,7873,6137,5357,4704,682,257,16976,6985,254,8007],"class_list":["post-206265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attorneygeneral","tag-calls","tag-crime","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-organised","tag-response","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategic"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/206265","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=206265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}