{"id":175685,"date":"2024-07-02T01:43:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T23:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-are-angolas-democractic-values-under-threat\/"},"modified":"2024-07-02T01:43:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T23:43:14","slug":"angola-are-angolas-democractic-values-under-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-are-angolas-democractic-values-under-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Are Angola&#8217;s Democractic Values Under Threat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><em><em>Angolan NGOs have raised concerns about what they say are attempts by President Joao Lourenco&#8217;s government to restrict democratic rights, suppress the opposition and reshape the nation in its favor. DW delves deeper.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Florindo Chivucute, chairman of the NGO Friends of Angola, which aims to raise global awareness about the challenges facing the country, directed a public appeal to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/angola-incumbent-president-joao-lourenco-wins-reelection\/a-62963836\" rel=\"noopener\">President Joao Lourenco<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">&#8220;Mr. President, if you really want a democratic and livable country for all Angolans, you&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407010667.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angolan NGOs have raised concerns about what they say are attempts by President Joao Lourenco&#8217;s government to restrict democratic rights, suppress the opposition and reshape the nation in its favor. DW delves deeper. Florindo Chivucute, chairman of the NGO Friends of Angola, which aims to raise global awareness about the challenges facing the country, directed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":175686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn07.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00541734:4c363567a59707c23e33f6e95606e481:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,13368,48928,257,254,6791,10027],"class_list":["post-175685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-angolas","tag-democractic","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threat","tag-values"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn07.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00541734:4c363567a59707c23e33f6e95606e481:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}