{"id":185977,"date":"2024-12-06T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T23:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-dfc-announces-investments-supporting-development-along-lobito-corridor\/"},"modified":"2024-12-06T01:00:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T23:00:39","slug":"angola-dfc-announces-investments-supporting-development-along-lobito-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-dfc-announces-investments-supporting-development-along-lobito-corridor\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: DFC Announces Investments Supporting Development Along Lobito Corridor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"152\">WASHINGTON, D.C \u2014 U.S. International Development Finance Corporation CEO Scott Nathan accompanied U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on a visit to Angola. The U.S. Government announced the commitment of a loan of up to $553 million to upgrade the Lobito Atlantic Railway. The loan will support the rehabilitation and operation of the brownfield mineral port in Lobito and an approximately 1,300-kilometer brownfield rail line in Angola running between the Lobito port to Luau on the Angolan border&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412050491.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>WASHINGTON, D.C \u2014 U.S. International Development Finance Corporation CEO Scott Nathan accompanied U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on a visit to Angola. The U.S. Government announced the commitment of a loan of up to $553 million to upgrade the Lobito Atlantic Railway. The loan will support the rehabilitation and operation of the brownfield mineral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":185978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660777:b46acca57b6e24ad2d728b1423ad6a90:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,4334,12298,5989,41638,5801,12373,257,254,8748],"class_list":["post-185977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-announces","tag-corridor","tag-development","tag-dfc","tag-investments","tag-lobito","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supporting"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660777:b46acca57b6e24ad2d728b1423ad6a90:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185977","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=185977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}