{"id":230703,"date":"2026-04-19T03:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-government-claims-that-privileges-for-former-presidents-guarantee-dignity\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T03:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:30:15","slug":"mozambique-government-claims-that-privileges-for-former-presidents-guarantee-dignity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-government-claims-that-privileges-for-former-presidents-guarantee-dignity\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Government Claims That Privileges for Former Presidents Guarantee &#8216;Dignity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Maputo \u2014 The Mozambican government has claimed that the recent approval of a package of financial and other benefits granted to former heads of state is aimed at guaranteeing &#8220;dignity&#8217; of the presidents after their term in office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">The perks &#8211; which benefit former presidents Joaquim Chissano, Armando Guebuza, and Filipe Nyusi and their spouses &#8211; were approved by the Council of Ministers (cabinet) in a decree which came into effect in March. The decree increases the financial benefits of former&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604160023.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 Mozambican government has claimed that the recent approval of a package of financial and other benefits granted to former heads of state is aimed at guaranteeing &#8220;dignity&#8217; of the presidents after their term in office. The perks &#8211; which benefit former presidents Joaquim Chissano, Armando Guebuza, and Filipe Nyusi and their spouses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230704,"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":[258,256,8117,16577,6427,8742,4704,682,257,7527,21902,254],"class_list":["post-230703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claims","tag-dignity","tag-government","tag-guarantee","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-presidents","tag-privileges","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\/230703","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=230703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}