{"id":182386,"date":"2024-10-12T05:55:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T03:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/africa-cementing-us-angola-ties-the-significance-of-bidens-visit\/"},"modified":"2024-10-12T05:55:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T03:55:24","slug":"africa-cementing-us-angola-ties-the-significance-of-bidens-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/africa-cementing-us-angola-ties-the-significance-of-bidens-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Cementing US-Angola Ties &#8211; the Significance of Biden&#8217;s Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Although there are benefits for both countries, the US is clearly challenging the dominance of China and Russia in Southern Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">With just a few months left in his presidency, United States (US) President Joe Biden chose to visit Angola from 13-15 October. The trip was postponed after Hurricane Milton struck Florida&#8217;s west coast this week, and a new date hasn&#8217;t been set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">This would have been Biden&#8217;s only visit to Africa during his presidency, the first by a United States (US) president to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410110219.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>Although there are benefits for both countries, the US is clearly challenging the dominance of China and Russia in Southern Africa. With just a few months left in his presidency, United States (US) President Joe Biden chose to visit Angola from 13-15 October. The trip was postponed after Hurricane Milton struck Florida&#8217;s west coast this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":182387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660171:3bd35c3f62cf9d9803edebd05c0531d9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,4263,36246,49722,257,22824,254,7051,49723,6250],"class_list":["post-182386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola-news","tag-bidens","tag-cementing","tag-news","tag-significance","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ties","tag-usangola","tag-visit"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660171:3bd35c3f62cf9d9803edebd05c0531d9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182386","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=182386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}