{"id":202611,"date":"2025-07-17T02:14:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T00:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-mass-protests-over-rising-prices\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T02:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T00:14:58","slug":"angola-mass-protests-over-rising-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-mass-protests-over-rising-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Mass Protests Over Rising Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\"><em>Activists are calling for a stay-at-home strike as they prepare for the next protest over rising fuel and transport prices. Police used rubber bullets and tear gas when protesters gathered in Luanda on July 12.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/angola-critics-slam-new-law-to-ban-demonstrations\/a-70175967\" rel=\"noopener\">Anti-government protests in the Angolan capital Luanda on July 12 were met with a harsh crackdown<\/a>, resulting in injuries and arrests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">&#8220;We recorded several injuries, some serious and requiring medical attention,&#8221;\u00a0Adilson Manuel, an activist and one of the organizers, told\u00a0DW.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">&#8220;In addition&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507160066.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>Activists are calling for a stay-at-home strike as they prepare for the next protest over rising fuel and transport prices. Police used rubber bullets and tear gas when protesters gathered in Luanda on July 12. Anti-government protests in the Angolan capital Luanda on July 12 were met with a harsh crackdown, resulting in injuries and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":202612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670894:ea85ce8599c98890248e5eb090e77535:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,7883,257,10246,5253,6678,254],"class_list":["post-202611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-mass","tag-news","tag-prices","tag-protests","tag-rising","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670894:ea85ce8599c98890248e5eb090e77535:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202611","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=202611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}