{"id":32598,"date":"2025-02-06T10:20:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T10:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/a-bloody-youthquake-in-mozambique-is-another-sign-of-the-crumbling-of-the-old-order-in-africa-estevao-chavisso\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T10:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T10:20:38","slug":"a-bloody-youthquake-in-mozambique-is-another-sign-of-the-crumbling-of-the-old-order-in-africa-estevao-chavisso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/a-bloody-youthquake-in-mozambique-is-another-sign-of-the-crumbling-of-the-old-order-in-africa-estevao-chavisso\/","title":{"rendered":"A bloody youthquake in Mozambique is another sign of the crumbling of the old order in Africa | Est\u00eav\u00e3o Chavisso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The violent repression of protests reflects a wider trend as Africa\u2019s younger voters lose faith in independence-era parties<\/p>\n<p>The bullet ripped through the young man\u2019s face, scattering his teeth in a pool of blood on the concrete floor. As more gunshots rang through the air, the joyous sounds of thousands of people who had gathered in central Maputo on 9 January turned to screaming. On my video camera, I continued filming, even as I too started running.<\/p>\n<p>We had known this might happen. Three months earlier, Mozambicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/19\/mozambique-opposition-figures-killed-protest-disputed-election-podemos\">went to the polls in elections<\/a> that have already changed the course of my country\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Est\u00eav\u00e3o Chavisso is a journalist based in Mozambique, where he is the coordinator of Lusa, Portugal\u2019s national news agency<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/feb\/06\/mozambique-africa-protests-violence-young-voters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The violent repression of protests reflects a wider trend as Africa\u2019s younger voters lose faith in independence-era parties The bullet ripped through the young man\u2019s face, scattering his teeth in a pool of blood on the concrete floor. As more gunshots rang through the air, the joyous sounds of thousands of people who had gathered &#8230; <a title=\"A bloody youthquake in Mozambique is another sign of the crumbling of the old order in Africa | Est\u00eav\u00e3o Chavisso\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/a-bloody-youthquake-in-mozambique-is-another-sign-of-the-crumbling-of-the-old-order-in-africa-estevao-chavisso\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about A bloody youthquake in Mozambique is another sign of the crumbling of the old order in Africa | Est\u00eav\u00e3o Chavisso\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}