{"id":185873,"date":"2024-12-04T12:57:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T10:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-biden-proud-to-be-in-angola-for-unprecedented-visit\/"},"modified":"2024-12-04T12:57:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T10:57:38","slug":"angola-biden-proud-to-be-in-angola-for-unprecedented-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-biden-proud-to-be-in-angola-for-unprecedented-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Biden &#8216;Proud&#8217; to Be in Angola for Unprecedented Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>US President Joe Biden has said he is &#8220;very proud to be the first American president visiting Angola&#8221; at the start of talks with his counterpart Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Discussions at the presidential palace in the capital, Luanda, were on security and trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The US government is backing a new 1,300km (810-mile) railway project linking an Angolan port with mining areas in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The visit to oil-rich Angola is part of a US effort to focus more on trade and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412040274.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>US President Joe Biden has said he is &#8220;very proud to be the first American president visiting Angola&#8221; at the start of talks with his counterpart Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o. Discussions at the presidential palace in the capital, Luanda, were on security and trade. The US government is backing a new 1,300km (810-mile) railway project linking an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":185874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,36243,257,10806,254,14978,6250],"class_list":["post-185873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-biden","tag-news","tag-proud","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unprecedented","tag-visit"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185873","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=185873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}