{"id":211370,"date":"2025-10-26T20:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T18:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-vandalism-causes-losses-of-over-50-million-dollars-to-energy-and-water-sectors\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T20:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T18:04:07","slug":"angola-vandalism-causes-losses-of-over-50-million-dollars-to-energy-and-water-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-vandalism-causes-losses-of-over-50-million-dollars-to-energy-and-water-sectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Vandalism Causes Losses of Over 50 Million Dollars to Energy and Water Sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Luanda \u2014 Acts of vandalism and theft of equipment and components of the electrical and water system in Angola have caused, annually, losses valued at more than 50 million US dollars, a fact that makes the implementation of new projects to expand the electrical network in the country unfeasible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The fact was revealed Thursday, in Luanda, by the Minister of Energy and Water, Jo\u00e3o Baptista Borges, who said that this amount would be used to build other electricity and water distribution networks&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510240056.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 Acts of vandalism and theft of equipment and components of the electrical and water system in Angola have caused, annually, losses valued at more than 50 million US dollars, a fact that makes the implementation of new projects to expand the electrical network in the country unfeasible. The fact was revealed Thursday, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":211371,"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":[258,256,3941,4263,13172,7424,9741,5118,257,16278,254,14183,6722],"class_list":["post-211370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-dollars","tag-energy","tag-losses","tag-million","tag-news","tag-sectors","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vandalism","tag-water"],"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\/211370","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=211370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}