{"id":242609,"date":"2026-08-29T20:37:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-edm-to-make-at-least-420000-new-connections-by-the-end-of-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T20:37:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:37:51","slug":"mozambique-edm-to-make-at-least-420000-new-connections-by-the-end-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-edm-to-make-at-least-420000-new-connections-by-the-end-of-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: EDM to Make At Least 420,000 New Connections By the End of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Maputo \u2014 Mozambique&#8217;s publicly-owned electricity company, EDM, plans to make at least 420,000 new connections by the end of 2026, covering about two million people across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">According to data presented by Ant\u00f3nio Manda, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy (MIREME), speaking to reporters on Thursday, in Maputo, at the ceremony marking the 49th anniversary of the company, 22.7 million people, which corresponds to 66.9 percent of the country&#8217;s population,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608280251.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 publicly-owned electricity company, EDM, plans to make at least 420,000 new connections by the end of 2026, covering about two million people across the country. According to data presented by Ant\u00f3nio Manda, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy (MIREME), speaking to reporters on Thursday, in Maputo, at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":242610,"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":[258,256,17559,9023,4704,682,257,254],"class_list":["post-242609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-connections","tag-edm","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/242609","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=242609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}