{"id":220727,"date":"2026-01-16T23:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-nationals-detained-for-illegal-mining-in-nampula\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T23:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:32:13","slug":"mozambique-nationals-detained-for-illegal-mining-in-nampula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-nationals-detained-for-illegal-mining-in-nampula\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Nationals Detained for Illegal Mining in Nampula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Maputo \u2014 Mozambican authorities have detained five Chinese nationals, in the northern province of Nampula, for alleged involvement in illegal mining and identity forgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">According to N\u00e9rcia Nota, spokesperson for the Migration Services in Nampula, cited by the independent paper &#8220;O Pa\u00eds&#8217;, in addition to the Chinese nationals, the authorities also detained two Malian nationals and one Portuguese national for illegal stay in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The spokesperson explained that the Chinese individuals&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601150509.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 authorities have detained five Chinese nationals, in the northern province of Nampula, for alleged involvement in illegal mining and identity forgery. According to N\u00e9rcia Nota, spokesperson for the Migration Services in Nampula, cited by the independent paper &#8220;O Pa\u00eds&#8217;, in addition to the Chinese nationals, the authorities also detained two Malian nationals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":220728,"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":[258,256,3707,6918,6477,4704,682,2788,16316,257,254],"class_list":["post-220727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-detained","tag-illegal","tag-mining","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-nampula","tag-nationals","tag-news","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\/220727","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=220727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}