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Maputo \u2014 The wave of disinformation alleging that mysterious sorcerers have stolen or shrunk the penises of their victims have led to riots in which 39 people have been killed and a further 74 injured, according to Mozambican Interior Minister Paulo Chachine.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Friday, at the opening of the 2026 school year at the Police Sergeants School (ESAPOL) in Metuchira, in the central province of Sofala, Chachine said that 132 people have been detained for their involvement in the rioting and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Maputo \u2014 The wave of disinformation alleging that mysterious sorcerers have stolen or shrunk the penises of their victims have led to riots in which 39 people have been killed and a further 74 injured, according to Mozambican Interior Minister Paulo Chachine. Speaking on Friday, at the opening of the 2026 school year at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":232308,"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":[258,256,8601,15960,4704,682,257,54334,19327,254],"class_list":["post-232307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deaths","tag-led","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-penises","tag-shrinking","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\/232307","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=232307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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