{"id":222251,"date":"2026-01-30T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-situation-out-of-control-schools-closed-lack-of-drinking-water-and-cholera-spreading-after-floods\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T00:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:01:09","slug":"mozambique-situation-out-of-control-schools-closed-lack-of-drinking-water-and-cholera-spreading-after-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-situation-out-of-control-schools-closed-lack-of-drinking-water-and-cholera-spreading-after-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Situation Out of Control &#8211; Schools Closed, Lack of Drinking Water, and Cholera Spreading After Floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Nampula \u2014 In Mozambique, the resumption of school activities in the country has been postponed until 27 February 2026. The decision was taken by the country&#8217;s Council of Ministers following the severe repercussions caused by the floods (see Fides, 21\/1\/2026).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">Since the start of the rainy season, which runs from October to April, including the last two weeks of flooding, 125 people have died in Mozambique and 774,828 have been severely affected. Hundreds of families remain surrounded by water,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601290500.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>Nampula \u2014 In Mozambique, the resumption of school activities in the country has been postponed until 27 February 2026. The decision was taken by the country&#8217;s Council of Ministers following the severe repercussions caused by the floods (see Fides, 21\/1\/2026). Since the start of the rainy season, which runs from October to April, including the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":222252,"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":[258,256,879,6851,6877,7943,6878,7112,4704,682,257,6756,6325,254,9948,6722],"class_list":["post-222251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cholera","tag-closed","tag-control","tag-drinking","tag-floods","tag-lack","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-schools","tag-situation","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spreading","tag-water"],"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\/222251","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=222251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}