{"id":221213,"date":"2026-01-20T23:41:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-unicef-warns-of-deadly-threat-to-children-as-floods-ravage-mozambique\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T23:41:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:41:21","slug":"mozambique-unicef-warns-of-deadly-threat-to-children-as-floods-ravage-mozambique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-unicef-warns-of-deadly-threat-to-children-as-floods-ravage-mozambique\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: UNICEF Warns of &#8216;Deadly Threat&#8217; to Children as Floods Ravage Mozambique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">Moronvia \u2014 The UN children&#8217;s agency, UNICEF, warns severe flooding in Mozambique poses a &#8220;deadly threat&#8221; to children, as extreme weather continues to cause havoc across the region. Speaking at a press briefing on Tuesday, UNICEF&#8217;s Chief of Communication in Mozambique, Guy Taylor, said heavy rains triggered a &#8220;rapidly escalating&#8221; emergency across vast swathes of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">&#8220;The fact that Mozambique is now entering its annual cyclone season creates the risk of a double crisis, with the most&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601200522.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>Moronvia \u2014 The UN children&#8217;s agency, UNICEF, warns severe flooding in Mozambique poses a &#8220;deadly threat&#8221; to children, as extreme weather continues to cause havoc across the region. Speaking at a press briefing on Tuesday, UNICEF&#8217;s Chief of Communication in Mozambique, Guy Taylor, said heavy rains triggered a &#8220;rapidly escalating&#8221; emergency across vast swathes of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":221214,"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\/00680498:2d1d6552ab748ac0a51240f6e266a84d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,7371,9555,6878,4704,682,257,30005,254,6791,445,6853],"class_list":["post-221213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-children","tag-deadly","tag-floods","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-ravage","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threat","tag-unicef","tag-warns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680498:2d1d6552ab748ac0a51240f6e266a84d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221213","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=221213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}