{"id":205704,"date":"2025-08-28T17:39:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-head-of-state-congratulates-national-team-on-winning-12th-afrobasket-trophy\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T17:39:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:39:53","slug":"angola-head-of-state-congratulates-national-team-on-winning-12th-afrobasket-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-head-of-state-congratulates-national-team-on-winning-12th-afrobasket-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Head of State Congratulates National Team On Winning 12th Afrobasket Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Luanda \u2014 Angolan President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o congratulated the senior men&#8217;s national basketball team on winning Afrobasket2025 Sunday, in Luanda, after a 70-43 victory over Mali.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">In his message, Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o congratulated the athletes, coaching staff, and everyone who contributed to making this victory possible, emphasizing that the achievement brought &#8220;a wave of joy that spread throughout the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">&#8220;Angolan basketball proved, at the largest African sporting festival, its capacity and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508260634.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>Luanda \u2014 Angolan President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o congratulated the senior men&#8217;s national basketball team on winning Afrobasket2025 Sunday, in Luanda, after a 70-43 victory over Mali. In his message, Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o congratulated the athletes, coaching staff, and everyone who contributed to making this victory possible, emphasizing that the achievement brought &#8220;a wave of joy that spread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":205705,"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":[23323,258,256,11621,3941,4263,6439,6687,257,254,6017,7142,13507,15104],"class_list":["post-205704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-12th","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-afrobasket","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-congratulates","tag-national","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-team","tag-trophy","tag-winning"],"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\/205704","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=205704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}