{"id":224737,"date":"2026-02-23T00:56:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-cyclone-gezani-heading-away-from-mozambique\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T00:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:56:37","slug":"mozambique-cyclone-gezani-heading-away-from-mozambique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-cyclone-gezani-heading-away-from-mozambique\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Cyclone Gezani Heading Away From Mozambique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Maputo \u2014 Tropical cyclone Gezani has not yet dissipated, but it no longer poses a threat to Mozambique.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">According to the US Navy&#8217;s Joint Typhoon Warning Centre (JTWC), after brushing against southern Madagascar, Gezani has been heading almost directly south for the past two days. This is a course that takes it away from any land mass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">In its passage through the Mozambique Channel last week, the cyclone affected about half a million people, bringing high winds and torrential rains to parts of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602180048.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 Tropical cyclone Gezani has not yet dissipated, but it no longer poses a threat to Mozambique. According to the US Navy&#8217;s Joint Typhoon Warning Centre (JTWC), after brushing against southern Madagascar, Gezani has been heading almost directly south for the past two days. This is a course that takes it away from any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":224738,"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":[258,256,12466,53736,12023,4704,682,257,254],"class_list":["post-224737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cyclone","tag-gezani","tag-heading","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\/224737","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=224737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}