{"id":222691,"date":"2026-02-03T12:10:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-north-south-road-viable-bypassing-xai-xai\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T12:10:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:10:51","slug":"mozambique-north-south-road-viable-bypassing-xai-xai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-north-south-road-viable-bypassing-xai-xai\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: North-South Road Viable, Bypassing Xai-Xai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Maputo \u2014 Mozambique&#8217;s National Roads Administration (ANE) announced on Sunday that road traffic between the north and the south of the country has been re-established, through a route that bypasses the flooded city of Xai-Xai, capital of Gaza province.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Catastrophic flooding in southern Mozambique in early January cut the main north-south highway (EN1) in Maputo province in six separate places. The most serious of these was a stretch about three kilometres long between Incoluane and the 3&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602030023.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 Mozambique&#8217;s National Roads Administration (ANE) announced on Sunday that road traffic between the north and the south of the country has been re-established, through a route that bypasses the flooded city of Xai-Xai, capital of Gaza province. Catastrophic flooding in southern Mozambique in early January cut the main north-south highway (EN1) in Maputo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":222692,"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":[258,256,53560,4704,682,257,21384,7414,254,11206,17173],"class_list":["post-222691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bypassing","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-northsouth","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today","tag-viable","tag-xaixai"],"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\/222691","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=222691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}