{"id":206615,"date":"2025-09-09T18:07:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-angola-produces-large-quantities-of-oil-and-diamonds-yet-most-people-dont-see-the-benefits\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T18:07:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:07:39","slug":"angola-angola-produces-large-quantities-of-oil-and-diamonds-yet-most-people-dont-see-the-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-angola-produces-large-quantities-of-oil-and-diamonds-yet-most-people-dont-see-the-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: &#8216;Angola Produces Large Quantities of Oil and Diamonds, Yet Most People Don&#8217;t See the Benefits&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">CIVICUS discusses recent protests in Angola with Florindo Chivucute, founder and executive director of Friends of Angola, a US-based civil society organisation established in 2014 that works to promote democracy, human rights and good governance in Angola.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"101\">The Angolan government&#8217;s 1 July decision to remove diesel subsidies, sharply pushing up public transport costs, triggered a series of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/8\/5\/in-oil-rich-angola-poverty-hunger-and-deadly-unrest-over-fuel-price-hikes\" rel=\"noopener\">protests<\/a>. Angola is one of Africa&#8217;s biggest oil producers, but many have seen little benefit from its oil&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509090003.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>CIVICUS discusses recent protests in Angola with Florindo Chivucute, founder and executive director of Friends of Angola, a US-based civil society organisation established in 2014 that works to promote democracy, human rights and good governance in Angola. The Angolan government&#8217;s 1 July decision to remove diesel subsidies, sharply pushing up public transport costs, triggered a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":206616,"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":[258,256,3941,4263,6481,1167,7207,10942,257,4221,6321,11446,30096,254],"class_list":["post-206615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-benefits","tag-diamonds","tag-dont","tag-large","tag-news","tag-oil","tag-people","tag-produces","tag-quantities","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\/206615","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=206615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}