{"id":210693,"date":"2025-10-21T19:53:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-president-joao-lourenco-addresses-the-nation-wednesday\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T19:53:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:53:41","slug":"angola-president-joao-lourenco-addresses-the-nation-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-president-joao-lourenco-addresses-the-nation-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o Addresses the Nation Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Luanda \u2014 The Angolan Head of State, Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o, is to open the 2025-2026 Parliamentary Year on Wednesday (15) in Luanda, through the traditional State of the Nation Address during a solemn session of the National Assembly (parliament).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The ceremony, which symbolizes the official start of the legislative year, is a mandatory act as outlined in Article 118 of the Constitution of the Republic of Angola (CRA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The session is to be attended by heads of sovereign bodies, members of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510150354.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 Angolan Head of State, Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o, is to open the 2025-2026 Parliamentary Year on Wednesday (15) in Luanda, through the traditional State of the Nation Address during a solemn session of the National Assembly (parliament). The ceremony, which symbolizes the official start of the legislative year, is a mandatory act as outlined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":210694,"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":[6983,258,256,3941,4263,14019,14020,10970,257,2450,254,12446],"class_list":["post-210693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-addresses","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-joao","tag-lourenco","tag-nation","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wednesday"],"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\/210693","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=210693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}