{"id":192021,"date":"2025-02-22T06:08:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T04:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-over-80-diamond-stones-seized-in-lunda-norte\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T06:08:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T04:08:47","slug":"angola-over-80-diamond-stones-seized-in-lunda-norte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-over-80-diamond-stones-seized-in-lunda-norte\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Over 80 Diamond Stones Seized in Lunda-Norte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Dundo \u2014 At least 83 diamond stones of different carats were seized by the Criminal Investigation Service (SIC) for illegal possession and trafficking in the municipality of Lucapa, Lunda-Norte province, local SIC spokesman Graciano Lumanhi said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">According to the SIC spokesman, the incident took place in the town of Mwatxondo (Calonda) and the gems were in the possession of a foreign citizen, whose identity has not been revealed, who fled after being questioned on the street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Graciano&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502210047.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Dundo \u2014 At least 83 diamond stones of different carats were seized by the Criminal Investigation Service (SIC) for illegal possession and trafficking in the municipality of Lucapa, Lunda-Norte province, local SIC spokesman Graciano Lumanhi said Thursday. According to the SIC spokesman, the incident took place in the town of Mwatxondo (Calonda) and the gems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":192022,"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":[258,256,3941,4263,7465,48983,257,7936,254,22634],"class_list":["post-192021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-diamond","tag-lundanorte","tag-news","tag-seized","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stones"],"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\/192021","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=192021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}