{"id":225540,"date":"2026-02-28T01:08:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-significant-reduction-in-kidnapping-claims-chapo\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T01:08:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:08:45","slug":"mozambique-significant-reduction-in-kidnapping-claims-chapo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-significant-reduction-in-kidnapping-claims-chapo\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Significant Reduction in Kidnapping, Claims Chapo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Maputo \u2014 There has been &#8220;a significant reduction&#8217; in the number of kidnappings registered in Mozambique in recent months, declared President Daniel Chapo on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Speaking at a graduation ceremony at the Police Science Academy (ACIPOL) on the outskirts of Maputo, Chapo attributed the recent successes to &#8220;the coordinated actions of the defence and security forces, police intelligence, improved criminal investigation and regional cooperation&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">This work, Chapo said, had led to the location of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602270036.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 There has been &#8220;a significant reduction&#8217; in the number of kidnappings registered in Mozambique in recent months, declared President Daniel Chapo on Wednesday. Speaking at a graduation ceremony at the Police Science Academy (ACIPOL) on the outskirts of Maputo, Chapo attributed the recent successes to &#8220;the coordinated actions of the defence and security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":225541,"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\/00680077:a6c097b743687d5e0bab1af595307c5b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,48476,8117,1457,4704,682,257,12444,17859,254],"class_list":["post-225540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chapo","tag-claims","tag-kidnapping","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-reduction","tag-significant","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680077:a6c097b743687d5e0bab1af595307c5b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225540","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=225540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}