{"id":222638,"date":"2026-02-03T00:09:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-government-postpones-start-of-school-year-by-a-month\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T00:09:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:09:29","slug":"mozambique-government-postpones-start-of-school-year-by-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-government-postpones-start-of-school-year-by-a-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Government Postpones Start of School Year By a Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Maputo \u2014 The Mozambican government on Tuesday announced that the start of the 2026 school year will be delayed by a month because of the catastrophic flooding that has gripped much of the southern provinces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The Council of Ministers (Cabinet) met on Tuesday, not in Maputo, but in Xai-Xai capital of Gaza province, one of the areas worst hit by the floods. Although the floods are beginning to subside, much of Xai-Xai remains under water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">At the end of the meeting the government announced that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601290056.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 The Mozambican government on Tuesday announced that the start of the 2026 school year will be delayed by a month because of the catastrophic flooding that has gripped much of the southern provinces. The Council of Ministers (Cabinet) met on Tuesday, not in Maputo, but in Xai-Xai capital of Gaza province, one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":222639,"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":[258,256,6427,7670,4704,682,257,15235,4362,254,7138,6537],"class_list":["post-222638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-government","tag-month","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-postpones","tag-school","tag-south-africa-today","tag-start","tag-year"],"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\/222638","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=222638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}