{"id":229941,"date":"2026-04-09T14:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-over-6300-rwandan-troops-in-northern-mozambique\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:38:15","slug":"mozambique-over-6300-rwandan-troops-in-northern-mozambique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-over-6300-rwandan-troops-in-northern-mozambique\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Over 6,300 Rwandan Troops in Northern Mozambique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Maputo \u2014 The Rwandan government has revealed that it has over 6,300 troops deployed in Northern Mozambique to support the fight against Islamist terrorists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The Rwandan Forces were deployed in 2021 at the request of the Mozambican government to support the fight against the jihadist groups operating in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">According to the Rwandan government spokesperson, Yolande Makolo, this is three times the number that were sent in 2021, and therefore a &#8220;sustainable financing framework is needed to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604090027.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 The Rwandan government has revealed that it has over 6,300 troops deployed in Northern Mozambique to support the fight against Islamist terrorists. The Rwandan Forces were deployed in 2021 at the request of the Mozambican government to support the fight against the jihadist groups operating in the region. According to the Rwandan government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":229942,"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":[258,256,4704,682,257,4282,546,254,8515],"class_list":["post-229941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-northern","tag-rwandan","tag-south-africa-today","tag-troops"],"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\/229941","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=229941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}