{"id":4241,"date":"2015-09-08T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2015\/09\/08\/swaziland-to-build-port-in-mozambique\/"},"modified":"2015-09-08T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T08:42:00","slug":"swaziland-to-build-port-in-mozambique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2015\/09\/08\/swaziland-to-build-port-in-mozambique\/","title":{"rendered":"Swaziland to build port in Mozambique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being entirely land-locked, King Mswati III, who rules as an absolute monarch, has announced a plan to build a $3bn sea port. This will be achieved through the construction of a 26km canal across Mozambique to the Indian Ocean town of Mlawula. There, the port, which will be equipped with four berths, will be built on a proposed 20ha site.<\/p>\n<p>The project appears to have a financial backer: Moses Motsa, a highly influential, but controversial millionaire from Swaziland.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the controversial nature of the sea port is also mirrored by a second project, which will see the construction of a $250m international airport; the existing airport generates traffic of just 150 daily passengers.<\/p>\n<p>It is hoped that by implementing both projects Swaziland can become a \u2018first world\u2019 country by 2022. Currently, 70% of its 1.3m habitants live on less than $2 a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tiny African state of Swaziland, which is wedged between South Africa and Mozambique, has recently announced its intention to progress two mega-projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4241"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}