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Unrest in Angola this week over a sharp fuel price hike has left 22 people dead and more than 1,200 arrested, the government said on Thursday. <\/em><\/p>\n Violence erupted on Monday when drivers of candongueiros<\/em> – blue and white minibus taxis that carry nearly 90 percent of Luanda’s commuters – launched a three-day strike.<\/p>\n Sporadic gunfire was heard across the capital Luanda and several other cities on Monday and Tuesday as people looted shops and clashed with police.<\/p>\n “We regret 22 deaths, including one…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Unrest in Angola this week over a sharp fuel price hike has left 22 people dead and more than 1,200 arrested, the government said on Thursday. Violence erupted on Monday when drivers of candongueiros – blue and white minibus taxis that carry nearly 90 percent of Luanda’s commuters – launched a three-day strike. Sporadic gunfire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":203658,"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":[258,256,3941,4263,6974,7570,10730,11764,257,5253,8688,254,11260],"class_list":["post-203657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-death","tag-fuel","tag-hike","tag-looting","tag-news","tag-protests","tag-rises","tag-south-africa-today","tag-toll"],"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\/203657","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=203657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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