{"id":209179,"date":"2025-10-07T19:36:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-cabo-delgado-insurgency-persists-amid-failed-military-strategy\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T19:36:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:36:56","slug":"mozambique-cabo-delgado-insurgency-persists-amid-failed-military-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-cabo-delgado-insurgency-persists-amid-failed-military-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Cabo Delgado Insurgency Persists Amid Failed Military Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Eight years on, northern Mozambique&#8217;s terrorist threat remains acute despite the deployment of thousands of local and foreign troops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Cabo Delgado&#8217;s armed insurgency marked its eighth anniversary this October. With attacks occurring on a near-daily basis, terrorism continues to pose a serious threat to local communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Over the past eight years, the Mozambican government has responded almost exclusively with a military approach, deploying state forces, private military companies and foreign&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510070368.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>Eight years on, northern Mozambique&#8217;s terrorist threat remains acute despite the deployment of thousands of local and foreign troops. Cabo Delgado&#8217;s armed insurgency marked its eighth anniversary this October. With attacks occurring on a near-daily basis, terrorism continues to pose a serious threat to local communities. Over the past eight years, the Mozambican government has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":209180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651136:d3c068cf639b365d38809abb04e42a62:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,13157,14859,9281,21072,3318,4704,682,257,20570,254,6986],"class_list":["post-209179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cabo","tag-delgado","tag-failed","tag-insurgency","tag-military","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-persists","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651136:d3c068cf639b365d38809abb04e42a62:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209179","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=209179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}