{"id":237175,"date":"2026-06-23T06:03:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T04:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-sexual-violence-surges-in-mozambiques-cabo-delgado-as-war-grinds-on\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T06:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T04:03:59","slug":"mozambique-sexual-violence-surges-in-mozambiques-cabo-delgado-as-war-grinds-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-sexual-violence-surges-in-mozambiques-cabo-delgado-as-war-grinds-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Sexual Violence Surges in Mozambique&#8217;s Cabo Delgado As War Grinds On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"77\"><em> Sexual violence is surging in Mozambique&#8217;s Cabo Delgado province, where women and girls are trapped between insurgents and soldiers after nearly a decade of conflict. Rich in natural gas, precious stones and lithium, the northern province has been scarred by attacks from Islamist militants and reprisals by Mozambique&#8217;s armed forces. This seventh instalment of Mozambique Exposed &#8211; an investigation coordinated by Forbidden Stories to which RFI contributed &#8211; examines how women have paid the price. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606220077.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>Sexual violence is surging in Mozambique&#8217;s Cabo Delgado province, where women and girls are trapped between insurgents and soldiers after nearly a decade of conflict. Rich in natural gas, precious stones and lithium, the northern province has been scarred by attacks from Islamist militants and reprisals by Mozambique&#8217;s armed forces. This seventh instalment of Mozambique [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237176,"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\/00610220:679a6d44b14268537aaf7f7ced676c6c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,13157,14859,34994,4704,682,10439,257,9796,254,12546,2148,6618],"class_list":["post-237175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cabo","tag-delgado","tag-grinds","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-mozambiques","tag-news","tag-sexual","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surges","tag-violence","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00610220:679a6d44b14268537aaf7f7ced676c6c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237175","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=237175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}