{"id":245014,"date":"2026-09-20T20:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-fight-against-kidnappings-remains-priority-in-national-security-strategy\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T20:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T18:00:31","slug":"mozambique-fight-against-kidnappings-remains-priority-in-national-security-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-fight-against-kidnappings-remains-priority-in-national-security-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Fight Against Kidnappings Remains Priority in National Security Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Maputo \u2014 Mozambican President Daniel Chapo has reaffirmed that the fight against kidnappings, drug trafficking, and corruption remain on top of the country&#8217;s security strategy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">Speaking at a rally during his three-day working visit to Matutu\u00edne district, southern province of Maputo, the government will step up security measures to protect citizens and their livelihoods. However, he explained that while defense and security forces lead the charge against crime, active participation from local&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609180038.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 Mozambican President Daniel Chapo has reaffirmed that the fight against kidnappings, drug trafficking, and corruption remain on top of the country&#8217;s security strategy. Speaking at a rally during his three-day working visit to Matutu\u00edne district, southern province of Maputo, the government will step up security measures to protect citizens and their livelihoods. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":245015,"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":[258,256,4345,21394,4704,682,6687,257,9570,7602,4586,254,6986],"class_list":["post-245014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fight","tag-kidnappings","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-national","tag-news","tag-priority","tag-remains","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategy"],"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\/245014","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=245014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}