{"id":207226,"date":"2025-09-15T18:34:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-president-joao-lourenco-witnesses-carnival-angola-50-years-parade\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T18:34:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:34:58","slug":"angola-president-joao-lourenco-witnesses-carnival-angola-50-years-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-president-joao-lourenco-witnesses-carnival-angola-50-years-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o Witnesses &#8216;Carnival Angola 50 Years&#8217; Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Luanda \u2014 The Head of State, Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o, on Saturday at the Luanda boulevard attended the special edition of Carnival &#8220;Angola 50 Years&#8221; parade, which brings together carnival groups from the country&#8217;s 21 provinces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Upon arriving at the parade site, he greeted representatives of the 21 carnival groups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The non-competitive parade features over three thousand dancers and includes, in addition to traditional dances, cultural manifestations and rituals characteristic of the country&#8217;s different&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509150414.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 The Head of State, Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o, on Saturday at the Luanda boulevard attended the special edition of Carnival &#8220;Angola 50 Years&#8221; parade, which brings together carnival groups from the country&#8217;s 21 provinces. Upon arriving at the parade site, he greeted representatives of the 21 carnival groups. The non-competitive parade features over three thousand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":207227,"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":[258,256,3941,4263,17851,14019,14020,257,6750,2450,254,12677,5114],"class_list":["post-207226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-carnival","tag-joao","tag-lourenco","tag-news","tag-parade","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-witnesses","tag-years"],"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\/207226","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=207226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}