{"id":231750,"date":"2026-04-29T03:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-four-killed-by-jihadists-in-mocimboa-da-praia\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T03:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:54:16","slug":"mozambique-four-killed-by-jihadists-in-mocimboa-da-praia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-four-killed-by-jihadists-in-mocimboa-da-praia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Four Killed By Jihadists in Mocimboa DA Praia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Maputo \u2014 A group of Islamist terrorists on Thursday invaded Mitope village, Moc\u00edmboa da Praia district, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, killing at least four people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">According to Tuesday&#8217;s issue of the independent newsheet &#8220;Carta de Mo\u00e7ambique&#8217;, citing local sources, in addition to killing people, the terrorists stole various goods from the small shops operating in the village.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The terrorists also forced several local residents to abandon their houses to take refuge in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604280484.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 A group of Islamist terrorists on Thursday invaded Mitope village, Moc\u00edmboa da Praia district, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, killing at least four people. According to Tuesday&#8217;s issue of the independent newsheet &#8220;Carta de Mo\u00e7ambique&#8217;, citing local sources, in addition to killing people, the terrorists stole various goods from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":231751,"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":[258,256,2822,4327,15146,4704,682,257,15147,254],"class_list":["post-231750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-jihadists","tag-killed","tag-mocimboa","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-praia","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\/231750","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=231750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}