{"id":238653,"date":"2026-07-13T18:58:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-afdb-calls-for-creation-of-drone-center\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T18:58:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:58:48","slug":"mozambique-afdb-calls-for-creation-of-drone-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-afdb-calls-for-creation-of-drone-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: AfDB Calls for Creation of Drone Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Maputo \u2014 The African Development Bank (AfDB) has proposed the creation of a Drone Center in Mozambique, which will be aimed at consolidating national capacity in the use of this technology for disaster risk management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">According to AfDB&#8217;s representative in Mozambique, R\u00f4mulo Correa, speaking during a ceremony marking the graduation of drone pilots and the conclusion of the first disaster management project utilizing this technology, a drone center would also foster innovation across various&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607130430.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 The African Development Bank (AfDB) has proposed the creation of a Drone Center in Mozambique, which will be aimed at consolidating national capacity in the use of this technology for disaster risk management. According to AfDB&#8217;s representative in Mozambique, R\u00f4mulo Correa, speaking during a ceremony marking the graduation of drone pilots and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[9155,258,256,6137,7621,11743,23813,4704,682,257,254],"class_list":["post-238653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-afdb","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-center","tag-creation","tag-drone","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238653","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=238653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}