{"id":224511,"date":"2026-02-20T12:43:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/africa-deserves-un-security-council-representation-improved-access-to-financing-angolas-un-envoy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:43:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:43:38","slug":"africa-deserves-un-security-council-representation-improved-access-to-financing-angolas-un-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/africa-deserves-un-security-council-representation-improved-access-to-financing-angolas-un-envoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Deserves UN Security Council Representation, Improved Access to Financing &#8211; Angola&#8217;s UN Envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Addis Ababa \u2014 Urgent reform of the United Nations system and comprehensive debt relief for African countries are essential to the continent&#8217;s development and global fairness, Angola&#8217;s Permanent Representative to the UN, Francisco Jos\u00e9 da Cruz, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The Permanent Representative stressed that reform of the UN, particularly the Security Council, is long overdue. While Africa now represents 54 member states at the UN, it remains without permanent representation in the Security Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">&#8220;Africa is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602200063.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>Addis Ababa \u2014 Urgent reform of the United Nations system and comprehensive debt relief for African countries are essential to the continent&#8217;s development and global fairness, Angola&#8217;s Permanent Representative to the UN, Francisco Jos\u00e9 da Cruz, said. The Permanent Representative stressed that reform of the UN, particularly the Security Council, is long overdue. While Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":224512,"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":[6450,258,256,4263,13368,6158,24356,5882,12412,9463,257,10447,4586,254],"class_list":["post-224511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola-news","tag-angolas","tag-council","tag-deserves","tag-envoy","tag-financing","tag-improved","tag-news","tag-representation","tag-security","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\/224511","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=224511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}