{"id":226626,"date":"2026-03-11T13:33:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-sernic-denies-discrimination-against-nigerians\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T13:33:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:33:20","slug":"mozambique-sernic-denies-discrimination-against-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-sernic-denies-discrimination-against-nigerians\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Sernic Denies Discrimination Against Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Maputo \u2014 Mozambique&#8217;s National Criminal Investigation Service (Sernic) has denied reports that it only detained Nigerian nationals during an operation aimed at dismantling a network trading in stolen vehicle parts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Sernic claims that the Nigerian citizens were detained because they were staying illegally in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">According to Sernic spokesperson Hil\u00e1rio Lole, interviewed by AIM, the 42 Nigerian nationals were detained during the operation for lacking legal documents to stay in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603110036.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 Criminal Investigation Service (Sernic) has denied reports that it only detained Nigerian nationals during an operation aimed at dismantling a network trading in stolen vehicle parts. Sernic claims that the Nigerian citizens were detained because they were staying illegally in the country. According to Sernic spokesperson Hil\u00e1rio Lole, interviewed by AIM, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":226627,"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":[258,256,7651,9901,4704,682,257,6665,24338,254],"class_list":["post-226626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-denies","tag-discrimination","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-nigerians","tag-sernic","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\/226626","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=226626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}