{"id":209697,"date":"2025-10-13T07:34:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-president-joao-lourenco-promotes-and-appoints-officers-in-the-faa-and-police\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T07:34:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:34:53","slug":"angola-president-joao-lourenco-promotes-and-appoints-officers-in-the-faa-and-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-president-joao-lourenco-promotes-and-appoints-officers-in-the-faa-and-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o Promotes and Appoints Officers in the FAA and Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Luanda \u2014 Angolan President and Commander-in-Chief of the Angolan Armed Forces, Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o, made some reshuffle in the FAA and the National Police on Tuesday, including promotions, appointments, and dismissals of general officers and commissioners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">According to publicly released presidential decrees, Brigadier Jos\u00e9 Maria was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General, while Colonels Ant\u00f3nio Edilson Wanandumbo and Jo\u00e3o da Cruz Matias were promoted to the rank of Brigadier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"83\">In the same&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510090567.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 and Commander-in-Chief of the Angolan Armed Forces, Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o, made some reshuffle in the FAA and the National Police on Tuesday, including promotions, appointments, and dismissals of general officers and commissioners. According to publicly released presidential decrees, Brigadier Jos\u00e9 Maria was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General, while Colonels Ant\u00f3nio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":209698,"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":[258,256,3941,4263,8752,17380,14019,14020,257,6749,662,2450,7186,254],"class_list":["post-209697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-appoints","tag-faa","tag-joao","tag-lourenco","tag-news","tag-officers","tag-police","tag-president","tag-promotes","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\/209697","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=209697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}