{"id":242340,"date":"2026-08-27T08:33:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-inss-strengthens-staff-technical-skills-following-corruption-scandals\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T08:33:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:33:46","slug":"mozambique-inss-strengthens-staff-technical-skills-following-corruption-scandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-inss-strengthens-staff-technical-skills-following-corruption-scandals\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: INSS Strengthens Staff Technical Skills Following Corruption Scandals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Maputo \u2014 Mozambique&#8217;s National Social Security Institute (INSS) has decided to strengthen technical skills of employees involved in public procurement processes, at a time when the sector is facing new legal challenges following corruption scandals involving the institute&#8217;s high-ranking officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Last April, the country&#8217;s Criminal Investigation Service (Sernic), in coordination with the Central Office for the Fight Against Corruption (GCCC), detained the INSS Director-General, Joaquim Si\u00fata;&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608260442.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 Mozambique&#8217;s National Social Security Institute (INSS) has decided to strengthen technical skills of employees involved in public procurement processes, at a time when the sector is facing new legal challenges following corruption scandals involving the institute&#8217;s high-ranking officials. Last April, the country&#8217;s Criminal Investigation Service (Sernic), in coordination with the Central Office for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":242341,"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":[258,256,4723,17261,4704,682,257,6862,6781,254,6221,11921,7233],"class_list":["post-242340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-corruption","tag-inss","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-scandals","tag-skills","tag-south-africa-today","tag-staff","tag-strengthens","tag-technical"],"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\/242340","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=242340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}