{"id":247295,"date":"2026-10-16T05:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T03:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-chapo-calls-for-strengthened-measures-against-drug-trafficking\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T05:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T03:30:18","slug":"mozambique-chapo-calls-for-strengthened-measures-against-drug-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-chapo-calls-for-strengthened-measures-against-drug-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Chapo Calls for Strengthened Measures Against Drug Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Maputo \u2014 Mozambican President Daniel Chapo has pledged to intensify the fight against drug trafficking and consumption, with particular focus on protecting schools from drug networks targeting children and adolescents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"65\">Speaking on Wednesday in Maputo, at the opening of the National Conference on Drug Prevention and Control, held under the motto &#8220;Drug prevention and control: new trends, challenges and innovative responses&#8221;, Chapo challenged the Attorney General&#8217;s Office (PGR), the courts, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610150363.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 pledged to intensify the fight against drug trafficking and consumption, with particular focus on protecting schools from drug networks targeting children and adolescents. Speaking on Wednesday in Maputo, at the opening of the National Conference on Drug Prevention and Control, held under the motto &#8220;Drug prevention and control: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":247296,"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":[258,256,6137,48476,6949,7305,4704,682,257,254,9838,6615],"class_list":["post-247295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-chapo","tag-drug","tag-measures","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strengthened","tag-trafficking"],"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\/247295","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=247295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}