{"id":219820,"date":"2026-01-09T23:17:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-quelimane-mayor-complains-of-harassment\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T23:17:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:17:03","slug":"mozambique-quelimane-mayor-complains-of-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-quelimane-mayor-complains-of-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Quelimane Mayor Complains of Harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Maputo \u2014 Manuel de Araujo, mayor of the central Mozambican city of Quelimane, has complained of &#8220;political harassment&#8217; by the Zambezia Provincial Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Interviewed by the independent television station STV, Araujo said the Attorney&#8217;s Office was piling up cases against the Quelimane Municipal Council which he heads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The latest such case concerns the cycle paths which the Council has installed. The Attorney&#8217;s Office ordered the demolition of the concrete barriers that separate the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601090481.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 Manuel de Araujo, mayor of the central Mozambican city of Quelimane, has complained of &#8220;political harassment&#8217; by the Zambezia Provincial Attorney&#8217;s Office. Interviewed by the independent television station STV, Araujo said the Attorney&#8217;s Office was piling up cases against the Quelimane Municipal Council which he heads. The latest such case concerns the cycle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":219821,"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":[258,256,8998,2898,7625,4704,682,257,11742,254],"class_list":["post-219820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-complains","tag-harassment","tag-mayor","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-quelimane","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\/219820","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=219820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}