{"id":367455,"date":"2020-08-13T10:17:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T04:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=367455"},"modified":"2020-08-13T10:17:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T04:47:13","slug":"islamic-state-militants-seize-key-port-in-gas-rich-northern-mozambique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/islamic-state-militants-seize-key-port-in-gas-rich-northern-mozambique\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic State militants seize key port in gas-rich northern Mozambique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MAPUTO : Islamist militants occupied a key port in gas-rich northern Mozambique on Wednesday following days of attacks claimed by an Islamic State-affiliated group, a military source and local media said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The port of Mocimboa da Praia was captured by the terrorists at dawn,&#8221; the Moz24Horas website reported, while a military source told AFP that the small town and its port had &#8220;fallen&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The assault is the latest in an intensifying insurgency in the country&#8217;s north since 2017 which has killed more than 1,000 people and complicated plans to develop its offshore gas reserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAPUTO : Islamist militants occupied a key port in gas-rich northern Mozambique on Wednesday following days of attacks claimed by an Islamic State-affiliated group, a military source and local media said. &#8220;The port of Mocimboa da Praia was captured by the terrorists at dawn,&#8221; the Moz24Horas website reported, while a military source told AFP that the small town and its port had &#8220;fallen&#8221;. The assault is the latest in an intensifying insurgency in the country&#8217;s north since 2017 which has killed more than 1,000 people and complicated plans to develop its offshore gas reserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}