{"id":217261,"date":"2025-12-19T10:27:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-blames-post-election-unrest-for-weakening-mozambique\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:27:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:27:24","slug":"mozambique-blames-post-election-unrest-for-weakening-mozambique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-blames-post-election-unrest-for-weakening-mozambique\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Blames Post-Election Unrest for Weakening Mozambique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Maputo \u2014 Mozambican President Daniel Chapo on Thursday said that, when he took office in January ,&#8221;I found a functioning country, but one that was profoundly weakened&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">Giving his annual State of the Nation address to the country&#8217;s parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, he said the country he found was &#8220;a Mozambique plagued by social instability, economic uncertainty and an environment that threatened not only the operations of the state, but also the trust of our people in the future&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Chapo&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512180606.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 Mozambican President Daniel Chapo on Thursday said that, when he took office in January ,&#8221;I found a functioning country, but one that was profoundly weakened&#8217;. Giving his annual State of the Nation address to the country&#8217;s parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, he said the country he found was &#8220;a Mozambique plagued by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":217262,"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\/00680077:a6c097b743687d5e0bab1af595307c5b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,8259,4704,682,257,15492,254,11998,32036],"class_list":["post-217261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blames","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-postelection","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unrest","tag-weakening"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680077:a6c097b743687d5e0bab1af595307c5b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217261","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=217261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}