{"id":210386,"date":"2025-10-19T07:48:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T05:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-end-of-war-allowed-construction-of-major-sports-infrastructure-president\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T07:48:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T05:48:50","slug":"angola-end-of-war-allowed-construction-of-major-sports-infrastructure-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-end-of-war-allowed-construction-of-major-sports-infrastructure-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: End of War Allowed Construction of Major Sports Infrastructure &#8211; President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Luanda \u2014 President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o stated on Wednesday in Luanda that the end of the war allowed the construction of major sports infrastructure in several provinces of the country, such as football stadiums and multipurpose pavilions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">During his State of the Nation Address at the opening of the 2025-2026 Parliamentary Year, the Angolan Head of State said that this has put Angola on the path to hosting major events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">He cited, as examples, the African Championships in handball, basketball,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510160029.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 President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o stated on Wednesday in Luanda that the end of the war allowed the construction of major sports infrastructure in several provinces of the country, such as football stadiums and multipurpose pavilions. During his State of the Nation Address at the opening of the 2025-2026 Parliamentary Year, the Angolan Head of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":210387,"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":[258,256,13663,3941,4263,7601,9864,7373,257,2450,254,8045,6618],"class_list":["post-210386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allowed","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-construction","tag-infrastructure","tag-major","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sports","tag-war"],"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\/210386","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=210386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}