{"id":221944,"date":"2026-01-26T11:51:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-20000-rescued-in-maputo-and-gaza\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:51:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:51:54","slug":"mozambique-20000-rescued-in-maputo-and-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-20000-rescued-in-maputo-and-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: 20,000 Rescued in Maputo and Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Maputo \u2014 Up until Saturday, the Mozambican government and its partners had rescued 19,254 people from the flood-stricken areas of southern Mozambique.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">According to a release from the Mozambican government, 11,963 victims were rescued from Maputo province, and 7,561 from the neighbouring province of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">In the rescue operations, 44 boats, nine helicopters, four light aircraft and one amphibious vessel were used.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Flood victims are being housed in 94 government-run accommodation centres. The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601260043.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 Up until Saturday, the Mozambican government and its partners had rescued 19,254 people from the flood-stricken areas of southern Mozambique. According to a release from the Mozambican government, 11,963 victims were rescued from Maputo province, and 7,561 from the neighbouring province of Gaza. In the rescue operations, 44 boats, nine helicopters, four light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":221945,"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\/00680576:ca04d8cf6b2aeaf24cbdae826216410b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,2671,683,4704,682,257,7607,254],"class_list":["post-221944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-gaza","tag-maputo","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-rescued","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680576:ca04d8cf6b2aeaf24cbdae826216410b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221944","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=221944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}