{"id":224273,"date":"2026-02-19T00:46:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-dissidents-call-for-extraordinary-congress\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T00:46:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:46:37","slug":"mozambique-dissidents-call-for-extraordinary-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-dissidents-call-for-extraordinary-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Dissidents Call for Extraordinary Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Maputo \u2014 Former guerrillas who once fought for the Mozambican rebel movement Renamo are collecting signatures to a petition demanding an extraordinary Renamo congress to sack the party&#8217;s leader, Ossufo Momade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">According to a report in the independent daily &#8220;O Pais&#8217;, the demobilised guerrillas announced on Tuesday the launch of a national campaign to collect signatures demanding an extraordinary congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The group&#8217;s spokesperson, Joao Machava, told a Maputo press conference that the purpose of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602180514.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 Former guerrillas who once fought for the Mozambican rebel movement Renamo are collecting signatures to a petition demanding an extraordinary Renamo congress to sack the party&#8217;s leader, Ossufo Momade. According to a report in the independent daily &#8220;O Pais&#8217;, the demobilised guerrillas announced on Tuesday the launch of a national campaign to collect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":224274,"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":[258,256,6880,6634,5292,10711,4704,682,257,254],"class_list":["post-224273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-call","tag-congress","tag-dissidents","tag-extraordinary","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/224273","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=224273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}