{"id":203580,"date":"2025-07-30T14:42:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-4-killed-in-angolan-fuel-hike-protests\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:42:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:42:59","slug":"angola-4-killed-in-angolan-fuel-hike-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-4-killed-in-angolan-fuel-hike-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: 4 Killed in Angolan Fuel Hike Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Shots rang out as Angola&#8217;s capital was gripped by a second day of looting on Tuesday, after at least four people were killed and scores arrested when violence erupted during a strike against a fuel price hike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Transport in Luanda remained suspended and shops closed after massive looting on Monday, the first day of the taxi drivers&#8217; strike to condemn the July 1 price rise, which had already led to several protests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Gunfire could be heard in central Luanda&#8217;s Cazenga area, where people were seen&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507300263.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>Shots rang out as Angola&#8217;s capital was gripped by a second day of looting on Tuesday, after at least four people were killed and scores arrested when violence erupted during a strike against a fuel price hike. Transport in Luanda remained suspended and shops closed after massive looting on Monday, the first day of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":203581,"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":[258,256,3941,4263,6556,7570,10730,4327,257,5253,254],"class_list":["post-203580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-angolan","tag-fuel","tag-hike","tag-killed","tag-news","tag-protests","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/203580","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=203580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}