{"id":222434,"date":"2026-01-31T12:03:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-five-dead-in-landslide-at-illegal-mine\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T12:03:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:03:52","slug":"mozambique-five-dead-in-landslide-at-illegal-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-five-dead-in-landslide-at-illegal-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Five Dead in Landslide At Illegal Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Maputo \u2014 At least five illegal miners have lost their lives as a result of landslides in an artisanal mine located in Guru\u00e8 district, in the central Mozambican province of Zamb\u00e9zia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">According to the administrator of Guru\u00e8 district, Felisberto Ponta Vida, interviewed by Radio Mo\u00e7ambique, the landslide was caused by the heavy rain that has been falling in northern Zamb\u00e9zia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Ponta Vida explained that the tragedy took place in the current week &#8220;after an artisanal mine collapsed during&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601300025.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 At least five illegal miners have lost their lives as a result of landslides in an artisanal mine located in Guru\u00e8 district, in the central Mozambican province of Zamb\u00e9zia. According to the administrator of Guru\u00e8 district, Felisberto Ponta Vida, interviewed by Radio Mo\u00e7ambique, the landslide was caused by the heavy rain that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":222435,"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\/00611236:96162a9939fe8575c377047d6bc5c348:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,8096,6918,11322,4704,682,257,254],"class_list":["post-222434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dead","tag-illegal","tag-landslide","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00611236:96162a9939fe8575c377047d6bc5c348:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222434","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=222434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}