{"id":240665,"date":"2026-08-08T19:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-alfeu-cuna-appointed-new-governor-of-gaza\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:56:09","slug":"mozambique-alfeu-cuna-appointed-new-governor-of-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-alfeu-cuna-appointed-new-governor-of-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Alfeu Cuna Appointed New Governor of Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Maputo \u2014 Alfeu Constantino Cuna has been appointed the new governor of the southern Mozambican province of Gaza in substitution of Margarida Mapandzene, who decided to resign from the position last July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The Gaza Provincial Assembly on Thursday confirmed the nomination of Cuna, who was indicated by members of Frelimo parliamentary group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Mapandzene ran for the office of Governor of Gaza in the general and provincial assembly elections held on October 9, 2024, as the lead candidate for the ruling&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608070269.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 Alfeu Constantino Cuna has been appointed the new governor of the southern Mozambican province of Gaza in substitution of Margarida Mapandzene, who decided to resign from the position last July. The Gaza Provincial Assembly on Thursday confirmed the nomination of Cuna, who was indicated by members of Frelimo parliamentary group. Mapandzene ran for [&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":[258,256,55095,10924,55096,2671,4269,4704,682,257,254],"class_list":["post-240665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alfeu","tag-appointed","tag-cuna","tag-gaza","tag-governor","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240665","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=240665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240665\/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=240665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}