{"id":225494,"date":"2026-02-27T12:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angolas-u61-5-billion-contracts-by-presidential-decree-no-public-tender\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T12:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:57:13","slug":"angolas-u61-5-billion-contracts-by-presidential-decree-no-public-tender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angolas-u61-5-billion-contracts-by-presidential-decree-no-public-tender\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola&#8217;s U$61.5 Billion Contracts By Presidential Decree. No Public Tender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">In Angola, major public spending decisions are often not announced in televised addresses or debated on the floor of Parliament. They appear instead in the Di\u00e1rio da Rep\u00fablica &#8212; formal presidential decrees, written in technical language, authorizing contracts that can reshape entire sectors of the economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Between 2017 and today, at least US$61.5 billion has been approved through one such mechanism: simplified procurement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">That figure emerges from a review of 476 presidential decrees, drawn&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602270010.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>In Angola, major public spending decisions are often not announced in televised addresses or debated on the floor of Parliament. They appear instead in the Di\u00e1rio da Rep\u00fablica &#8212; formal presidential decrees, written in technical language, authorizing contracts that can reshape entire sectors of the economy. Between 2017 and today, at least US$61.5 billion has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":225495,"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":[258,256,4263,13368,6495,10119,8680,257,6438,5751,254,8121,53772],"class_list":["post-225494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola-news","tag-angolas","tag-billion","tag-contracts","tag-decree","tag-news","tag-presidential","tag-public","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tender","tag-u61-5"],"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\/225494","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=225494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}