{"id":209462,"date":"2025-10-10T19:43:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-thousands-flee-amid-renewed-fighting-in-northern-mozambique-un-warns\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T19:43:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:43:50","slug":"mozambique-thousands-flee-amid-renewed-fighting-in-northern-mozambique-un-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-thousands-flee-amid-renewed-fighting-in-northern-mozambique-un-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Thousands Flee Amid Renewed Fighting in Northern Mozambique, UN Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Nearly 22,000 people fled their homes in northern Mozambique in a single week last month due to a resurgence in fighting across Cabo Delgado, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/news\/briefing-notes\/violence-flares-anew-northern-mozambique-forcing-22-000-flee-week?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=HQ_SM_EN_HQ-socialmedia_Tweet__Mozambique&amp;utm_content=Mozambique\" rel=\"noopener\">warned on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The surge in displacement in late September marks a turning point in the conflict &#8211; now entering its eighth year &#8211; with more than 100,000 people already uprooted during 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">The violence in Cabo Delgado began in 2017, led by armed groups locally known as al-Shabaab &#8211; unrelated to the Somali Islamist militia&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510080064.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>Nearly 22,000 people fled their homes in northern Mozambique in a single week last month due to a resurgence in fighting across Cabo Delgado, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) warned on Tuesday. The surge in displacement in late September marks a turning point in the conflict &#8211; now entering its eighth year &#8211; with more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":209463,"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":[258,256,4377,5167,4704,682,257,4282,6391,254,9216,6853],"class_list":["post-209462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fighting","tag-flee","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-northern","tag-renewed","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thousands","tag-warns"],"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\/209462","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=209462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}