{"id":222066,"date":"2026-01-27T23:55:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-floods-causing-spiralling-emergency-un\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T23:55:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:55:43","slug":"mozambique-floods-causing-spiralling-emergency-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-floods-causing-spiralling-emergency-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique Floods Causing Spiralling Emergency &#8211; UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Geneva \u2014 Severe flooding in Mozambique has triggered a rapidly escalating emergency that is already affecting more than half a million people, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">&#8220;The numbers keep rising as extensive flooding continues and dams keep releasing water to avoid bursting,&#8221; said Paola Emerson, head of Mozambique operations at the UN humanitarian agency OCHA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Heavy rains and storms have battered Mozambique and neighbouring South Africa for weeks, claiming at least 150 lives,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601270224.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>Geneva \u2014 Severe flooding in Mozambique has triggered a rapidly escalating emergency that is already affecting more than half a million people, the United Nations warned on Tuesday. &#8220;The numbers keep rising as extensive flooding continues and dams keep releasing water to avoid bursting,&#8221; said Paola Emerson, head of Mozambique operations at the UN humanitarian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":222067,"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\/00680585:34d140fbc01e7b0079ba5f180113d6f2:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,14441,6990,6878,4704,682,257,254,18776],"class_list":["post-222066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-causing","tag-emergency","tag-floods","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spiralling"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680585:34d140fbc01e7b0079ba5f180113d6f2:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222066","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=222066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}