{"id":233042,"date":"2026-05-12T16:25:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-violence-and-attacks-continue-in-cabo-delgado-province-bishop-of-quelimane-calls-for-prayer\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:25:17","slug":"mozambique-violence-and-attacks-continue-in-cabo-delgado-province-bishop-of-quelimane-calls-for-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-violence-and-attacks-continue-in-cabo-delgado-province-bishop-of-quelimane-calls-for-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Violence and Attacks Continue in Cabo Delgado Province &#8211; Bishop of Quelimane Calls for Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">Quelimane \u2014 The Islamist insurgency (ISM) continues in Cabo Delgado province. Recent attacks in districts such as Nangade, Moc\u00edmboa da Praia, and in the southern areas have targeted civilians, soldiers, missionaries, and miners, causing deaths, burning homes, and displacing hundreds of people. A raid in Namacuili caused at least four dead, while armed groups are attacking the districts of Ancuabe and Macomia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"81\">&#8220;The situation seems out of control,&#8221; Bishop Os\u00f3rio Citora Afonso, IMC, of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605120574.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>Quelimane \u2014 The Islamist insurgency (ISM) continues in Cabo Delgado province. Recent attacks in districts such as Nangade, Moc\u00edmboa da Praia, and in the southern areas have targeted civilians, soldiers, missionaries, and miners, causing deaths, burning homes, and displacing hundreds of people. A raid in Namacuili caused at least four dead, while armed groups are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":233043,"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":[258,256,306,8125,13157,6137,8005,14859,4704,682,257,13634,11048,11742,254,2148],"class_list":["post-233042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attacks","tag-bishop","tag-cabo","tag-calls","tag-continue","tag-delgado","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-prayer","tag-province","tag-quelimane","tag-south-africa-today","tag-violence"],"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\/233042","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=233042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}