{"id":240949,"date":"2026-08-12T20:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-over-400-minors-kidnapped-by-armed-groups-in-2024\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T20:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:04:14","slug":"mozambique-over-400-minors-kidnapped-by-armed-groups-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-over-400-minors-kidnapped-by-armed-groups-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Over 400 Minors Kidnapped By Armed Groups in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Maputo \u2014 Over 400 minors were recruited by armed groups in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado in 2024, according to a report carried out by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Health Cluster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">According to a Public Health Situation Analysis (PHSA), which aggregates data from official sources, 71 girls were recruited, while others were abducted. By the end of 2025, 30 of the Cabo Delgado&#8217;s 150 health facilities had been completely destroyed, while several humanitarian&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608120419.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 Over 400 minors were recruited by armed groups in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado in 2024, according to a report carried out by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Health Cluster. According to a Public Health Situation Analysis (PHSA), which aggregates data from official sources, 71 girls were recruited, while [&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":[258,256,9663,9835,476,15516,4704,682,257,254],"class_list":["post-240949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-armed","tag-groups","tag-kidnapped","tag-minors","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240949","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=240949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240949\/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=240949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}