{"id":180889,"date":"2024-09-19T17:04:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T15:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-washington-woos-angola-allafrica-com\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T17:04:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T15:04:07","slug":"angola-washington-woos-angola-allafrica-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-washington-woos-angola-allafrica-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Washington Woos Angola &#8211; allAfrica.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Reports of an upcoming presidential visit to Angola raise thorny policy questions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"129\">Recent reports that President Biden plans to travel to Angola in the months ahead <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/biden-make-first-africa-visit-with-angola-trip-coming-weeks-sources-say-2024-09-13\/\" rel=\"noopener\">suggest<\/a> that the White House is sensitive to the perception that it has been insufficiently engaged on Africa policy matters. If true, presumably, the trip is intended as a signal of U.S. commitment, and an opportunity to highlight Washington&#8217;s investment in the Lobito corridor, a transnational infrastructure project intended to link&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409190010.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>Reports of an upcoming presidential visit to Angola raise thorny policy questions. Recent reports that President Biden plans to travel to Angola in the months ahead suggest that the White House is sensitive to the perception that it has been insufficiently engaged on Africa policy matters. If true, presumably, the trip is intended as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":180890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00640995:c4f1c08b26ae96387ce0658b70df9964:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,42655,3941,4263,257,254,4565,19248],"class_list":["post-180889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrica-com","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-washington","tag-woos"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00640995:c4f1c08b26ae96387ce0658b70df9964:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180889","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=180889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}