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French President Emmanuel Macron is hosting Angolan President Joao Louren\u00e7o for a two-day state visit starting Thursday to strengthen political, cultural, and economic ties. <\/em><\/p>\n The French presidency said the visit aims to boost cooperation between the two countries while addressing major regional and international issues. President Louren\u00e7o is preparing to take over the presidency of the African Union in February, a key topic for discussions.<\/p>\n One of the key issues on the agenda is the conflict…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> French President Emmanuel Macron is hosting Angolan President Joao Louren\u00e7o for a two-day state visit starting Thursday to strengthen political, cultural, and economic ties. The French presidency said the visit aims to boost cooperation between the two countries while addressing major regional and international issues. President Louren\u00e7o is preparing to take over the presidency of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188824,"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\/00620634:5144d247c87d395285bf8408b84c432e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[50414,258,256,3941,4263,10119,4960,14020,257,4368,254,6017,6250],"class_list":["post-188823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-430m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-contracts","tag-france","tag-lourenco","tag-news","tag-sign","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-visit"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00620634:5144d247c87d395285bf8408b84c432e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188823","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=188823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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