{"id":67353,"date":"2020-03-27T11:57:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T03:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=67353"},"modified":"2020-03-27T11:58:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T03:58:43","slug":"mozambique-militants-attack-second-town-in-gas-rich-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=67353","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Militants attack second town in gas-rich region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Militants-attack-second-town-in-gas-rich-region-904897?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/429\/42995362.295.jpg\" alt=\"The militants attacked the town of Quissanga at dawn on Wednesday\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>The militants attacked the town of Quissanga at dawn on Wednesday<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MAPUTO, March 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Insurgents have attacked a second town in the gas-rich northern province in Mozambique where foreign companies are working on a $60bn natural gas project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The militants attacked the town of Quissanga at dawn on Wednesday, two days after they attacked Mocimboa de Praia town in the province of Cabo Delgado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The district police headquarters was raided and destroyed during the attack, a police officer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photographs of the attack are circulating on WhatsApp with one showing a group of eight masked men posing triumphantly in front of the Quissanga district police headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest attack occurred despite the presence of the ministers of defence and the interior in the area. They were dispatched to the province following Monday\u2019s attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authorities are yet to comment on the latest attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hundreds have been killed and thousands displaced during the three-year insurgency in Cabo Delgado. The government has battled to curb the insurgency, despite support from a Russian military company. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The militants attacked the town of Quissanga at dawn on Wednesday MAPUTO, March 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Insurgents have attacked a second town in the gas-rich northern province in Mozambique where foreign companies are working on a $60bn natural gas project. The militants attacked the town of Quissanga at dawn on Wednesday, two days after they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":67356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67353"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}