{"id":207235,"date":"2025-09-15T18:46:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-government-imposes-new-restrictions-on-alcoholic-drinks\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T18:46:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:46:24","slug":"mozambique-government-imposes-new-restrictions-on-alcoholic-drinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-government-imposes-new-restrictions-on-alcoholic-drinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Government Imposes New Restrictions On Alcoholic Drinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Maputo \u2014 The Mozambican government has issued a decree imposing new restrictions on the production, sale and consumption of alcoholic drinks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The decree is clearly in response to a devastating piece of investigative journalism by the independent television station STV last month, which looked at how informal traders are selling very cheap spirits, including outside schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The decree bans the use of ethanol in the manufacture of drinks, ordering that only ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509100031.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 The Mozambican government has issued a decree imposing new restrictions on the production, sale and consumption of alcoholic drinks. The decree is clearly in response to a devastating piece of investigative journalism by the independent television station STV last month, which looked at how informal traders are selling very cheap spirits, including outside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":207236,"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":[258,256,26425,15254,6427,17737,4704,682,257,7293,254],"class_list":["post-207235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alcoholic","tag-drinks","tag-government","tag-imposes","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-restrictions","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/207235","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=207235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}