{"id":194596,"date":"2025-03-26T22:06:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-ends-diesel-subsidies-to-free-3b-for-social-spending\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T22:06:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:06:44","slug":"angola-ends-diesel-subsidies-to-free-3b-for-social-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-ends-diesel-subsidies-to-free-3b-for-social-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola Ends Diesel Subsidies to Free $3b for Social Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Angola has removed diesel subsidies, raising pump prices by 50% as part of an International Monetary Fund-backed plan to redirect public funds<\/li>\n<li>As of Monday, diesel cost 300 kwanzas ($0.33) per liter, up from 200 kwanzas marking second increase in a year<\/li>\n<li>The IMF estimates the move could free up $3 billion&#8211;equivalent to Angola&#8217;s current combined health and education budget<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"61\">Angola has removed diesel subsidies, raising pump prices by 50% as part of an International Monetary Fund-backed plan to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503260038.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>Angola has removed diesel subsidies, raising pump prices by 50% as part of an International Monetary Fund-backed plan to redirect public funds As of Monday, diesel cost 300 kwanzas ($0.33) per liter, up from 200 kwanzas marking second increase in a year The IMF estimates the move could free up $3 billion&#8211;equivalent to Angola&#8217;s current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":194597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,8443,7933,6544,257,3577,254,9063,17819],"class_list":["post-194596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-diesel","tag-ends","tag-free","tag-news","tag-social","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spending","tag-subsidies"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/194596","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=194596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}