{"id":207533,"date":"2025-09-18T18:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-road-accidents-caused-409-deaths-in-first-six-months-of-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T18:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:52:10","slug":"mozambique-road-accidents-caused-409-deaths-in-first-six-months-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-road-accidents-caused-409-deaths-in-first-six-months-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Road Accidents Caused 409 Deaths in First Six Months of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Maputo \u2014 The Mozambican Transport Ministry has announced that the country recorded, in the first six months of this year, 326 road accidents that resulted in 409 deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">According to Irina Ribeiro, permanent secretary of the Ministry, who was speaking on Tuesday, in Maputo at a &#8220;Continental Workshop on Nationally Determined Contributions on Road Safety&#8217;, road accidents increased by five per cent compared to the same period of 2024 and deaths increased by 12 per cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">In order to reverse the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509180025.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 Transport Ministry has announced that the country recorded, in the first six months of this year, 326 road accidents that resulted in 409 deaths. According to Irina Ribeiro, permanent secretary of the Ministry, who was speaking on Tuesday, in Maputo at a &#8220;Continental Workshop on Nationally Determined Contributions on Road Safety&#8217;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":207534,"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":[8599,258,256,8965,8601,7061,4704,682,257,7414,254],"class_list":["post-207533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-accidents","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-caused","tag-deaths","tag-months","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-road","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\/207533","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=207533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}