{"id":226236,"date":"2026-03-07T01:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T23:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-diplomacy-strategic-in-defending-mozambican-interests\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T01:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T23:24:22","slug":"mozambique-diplomacy-strategic-in-defending-mozambican-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-diplomacy-strategic-in-defending-mozambican-interests\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Diplomacy Strategic in Defending Mozambican Interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Maputo \u2014 Mozambican President Daniel Chapo on Thursday declared that diplomacy should play a strategic role in defending Mozambican interests and projecting Mozambique in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Speaking as he was swearing into office the new Presidential Adviser on Diplomatic Matters, Carlos Rodrigues da Costa, and the curator of the Presidential Museum, Jeronimo Nhamunze, Chapo stressed the importance of preserving institutional memory in the consolidation of the Mozambican state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">He declared that Costa&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603060035.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 Mozambican President Daniel Chapo on Thursday declared that diplomacy should play a strategic role in defending Mozambican interests and projecting Mozambique in the world. Speaking as he was swearing into office the new Presidential Adviser on Diplomatic Matters, Carlos Rodrigues da Costa, and the curator of the Presidential Museum, Jeronimo Nhamunze, Chapo stressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":226237,"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":[258,256,5050,10059,19892,7751,4704,682,257,254,8007],"class_list":["post-226236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-defending","tag-diplomacy","tag-interests","tag-mozambican","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategic"],"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\/226236","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=226236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}