{"id":2313,"date":"2013-07-05T17:39:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T15:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2013-07-05T17:39:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T15:39:07","slug":"timber-rackets-gas-booms-in-mozambique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/05\/timber-rackets-gas-booms-in-mozambique\/","title":{"rendered":"Timber rackets, gas booms in Mozambique"},"content":{"rendered":"<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><b><i><a title=\"Africa Confidential\" href=\"http:\/\/www.africa-confidential.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2320\" alt=\"Africa Confidential 02\" src=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/africa-confidential-02.jpg?resize=629%2C99\" width=\"629\" height=\"99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/africa-confidential-02.jpg?w=635&amp;ssl=1 635w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/africa-confidential-02.jpg?resize=300%2C47&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a><\/i><\/b><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><b><i><span style=\"color:#993300;\">As the gas industry opens up the north, generals and politicians are smuggling hundreds of tonnes of timber and ivory to China<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><i>A<\/i><i>s the booming trade in smuggled ivory and timber devastates northern Mozambique\u2019s environment, Attorney General <\/i><i>Augusto Paulino <\/i><i>has launched an investigation into the claimed involvement of Agriculture Minister <\/i><i>Jos\u00e9 Pacheco <\/i><i>and his predecessor <\/i><i>Tom\u00e1s Mandlate<\/i><i>. Both face accusations of involvement in timber smuggling in cahoots with <\/i><i>Chinese <\/i><i>companies. Both Pacheco and Mandlate deny all wrong doing.<\/i> <a title=\"Africa Confidential\" href=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/timber-and-gas.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>READ MORE<\/i><\/a><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\">7 June 2013 \u2022 Vol 54 &#8211; N\u00b0 12 \u2022 <a title=\"Africa Confidential\" href=\"http:\/\/www.africa-confidential.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Africa Confidential<\/b><\/a><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the gas industry opens up the north, generals and politicians are smuggling hundreds of tonnes of timber and ivory to China As the booming trade in smuggled ivory and timber devastates northern Mozambique\u2019s environment, Attorney General Augusto Paulino has launched an investigation into the claimed involvement of Agriculture Minister Jos\u00e9 Pacheco and his predecessor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,28],"tags":[64,707,793,1008,1395],"class_list":["post-2313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-publications","tag-africa-confidential","tag-ivory","tag-justice-and-peace","tag-mozambique","tag-timber"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}