{"id":212358,"date":"2025-11-03T08:33:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-mozambican-state-owes-building-contractors-over-14-billion-meticais\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T08:33:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:33:55","slug":"mozambique-mozambican-state-owes-building-contractors-over-14-billion-meticais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-mozambican-state-owes-building-contractors-over-14-billion-meticais\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Mozambican State Owes Building Contractors Over 14 Billion Meticais"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Maputo \u2014 The Mozambican state owes building contractors a debt of over 14 billion meticais (about 219 million US dollars, at the current exchange rate), accumulated over the past ten years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The chairperson of the Mozambican Association of Contractors (FME), Bento Machaila, announced the debt when speaking to reporters in Maputo on Friday, shortly after an audience granted by the former President, Armando Guebuza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">During the audience Machaila shared with Guebuza the plans for the celebrations of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511030133.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 state owes building contractors a debt of over 14 billion meticais (about 219 million US dollars, at the current exchange rate), accumulated over the past ten years. The chairperson of the Mozambican Association of Contractors (FME), Bento Machaila, announced the debt when speaking to reporters in Maputo on Friday, shortly after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":212359,"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":[258,256,6495,6797,2141,13501,7751,4704,682,257,14099,254,6017],"class_list":["post-212358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-billion","tag-building","tag-contractors","tag-meticais","tag-mozambican","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-owes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state"],"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\/212358","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=212358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}