{"id":497807,"date":"2026-01-16T07:13:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/at-least-103-dead-and-231000-affected-by-heavy-rains-since-october-in-mozambique\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T07:13:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:13:05","slug":"at-least-103-dead-and-231000-affected-by-heavy-rains-since-october-in-mozambique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/at-least-103-dead-and-231000-affected-by-heavy-rains-since-october-in-mozambique\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 103 dead and 231,000 affected by heavy rains since October in Mozambique"},"content":{"rendered":"At least 103 people have died and 231,000 have been affected by floods caused by heavy rains in <a href=\"https:\/\/afrinz.ru\/es\/2026\/01\/en-mozambique-se-reportan-85-muertos-durante-la-temporada-de-lluvias\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mozambique<\/a> since last October, the National Disaster Management Institute (INGD) reported this Friday.\n\nThis southeastern African country is at the peak of the rainy season, which began in October 2025 and is expected to end in March 2026.\n\nIn statements to journalists in the capital, Maputo, the president of INGD, Lu\u00edsa Meque, revealed that \"there are 103 people who have died since the beginning of the rainy season\" and \"231,000 people in a state of emergency in the south and center of Mozambique.\"\n\n\n<p><strong>You can also read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/avanza-florida-ley-bajar-edad\/\">Florida bill advances to lower the minimum age to 18 to buy rifles and shotguns<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nMeque also provided a balance of \"at least 51,000 affected homes, 15 flooded health centers, seven damaged bridges and 152 kilometers of destroyed roads\".\n\nThe Minister of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources, Fernando Rafael, indicated that large-scale floods are affecting human settlements, infrastructure, some access roads and agricultural areas in several districts in the southern province of Gaza.\n\nThese floods add to those recorded since the beginning of the week in the district of B\u00fazi, in the central province of Sofala.\n\nThe increase in rainfall during the last week has caused the Limpopo River to overflow in the south and the Buzi River in the center.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 103 people have died and 231,000 have been affected by floods caused by heavy rains in Mozambique since last October, the National Disaster Management Institute (INGD) reported this Friday. This southeastern African country is at the peak of the rainy season, which began in October 2025 and is expected to end in March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-497807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Paola Castillo","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-paola-castillo-f-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}