{"id":3874,"date":"2014-07-10T12:54:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T05:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3874"},"modified":"2014-07-10T12:54:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T05:54:35","slug":"mozambique-presidential-candidate-made-a-plea-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-presidential-candidate-made-a-plea-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique presidential candidate made a plea for peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maputo – Mozambique’s ruling party presidential candidate Felipe Nyusi on Wednesday made a plea for peace with the opposition Renamo party, which has launched a new insurgency in the southern African nation.<\/p>\n

Nyusi, 55, appearing alongside President Armando Guebuza at a rally in the village of Buzi in the conflict-hit central Sofala province, pledged “continuity” with the policies of the outgoing president.<\/p>\n

“Peace is me. Peace is… not waiting in the bush for people to pass in order to kill them so that I can be president,” Nyusi said.”Peace is not using weapons to resolve the differences between people.”<\/p>\n

Guebuza, 75, who is set to step down in October after serving the two terms allowed by the constitution, has introduced the previously little-known Nyusi at public rallies as part of a country-wide farewell tour…<\/p>\n

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Maputo – Mozambique’s ruling party presidential candidate Felipe Nyusi on Wednesday made a plea for peace with the opposition Renamo party, which has launched a new insurgency in the southern African nation. Nyusi, 55, appearing alongside President Armando Guebuza at a rally in the village of Buzi in the conflict-hit central Sofala province, pledged “continuity” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,969,2451,2448,683,4704,682,257,2450,2449,2447,2446,1374,2452,254,4693],"class_list":["post-3874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-armando-guebuza","tag-buzi","tag-felipe-nyusi","tag-maputo","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-president","tag-president-armando-guebuza","tag-presidential-candidate","tag-presidential-candidate-felipe-nyusi","tag-renamo","tag-sofala-province","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/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=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}