{"id":232156,"date":"2026-05-02T16:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-and-u-s-sign-agreement-valued-at-over-u-s-500-million\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T16:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:03:46","slug":"mozambique-and-u-s-sign-agreement-valued-at-over-u-s-500-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-and-u-s-sign-agreement-valued-at-over-u-s-500-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique and U.S. Sign Agreement Valued At Over U.S.$500 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Maputo \u2014 Mozambique and the United States on Wednesday signed a memorandum of undertanding valued at 537.5 million dollars under the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Back in September 2025, the United States government had announced that the foreign aid promised to Mozambique under the MCC will be disbursed, despite fears that the Trump administration would destroy the MCC, just as it had dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Contrary to these fears, the aid&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605010033.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 and the United States on Wednesday signed a memorandum of undertanding valued at 537.5 million dollars under the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). Back in September 2025, the United States government had announced that the foreign aid promised to Mozambique under the MCC will be disbursed, despite fears that the Trump administration would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":232157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671942:2b5c9eee1089d54115e7a0bde9111d33:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,6423,5118,4704,682,257,4368,254,2282,50117,45534],"class_list":["post-232156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agreement","tag-million","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-sign","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s","tag-u-s-500","tag-valued"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671942:2b5c9eee1089d54115e7a0bde9111d33:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232156","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=232156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}