{"id":229228,"date":"2026-04-01T14:08:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-authorities-arrest-15-citizens-for-alleged-illegal-gold-mining\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:08:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:08:43","slug":"angola-authorities-arrest-15-citizens-for-alleged-illegal-gold-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-authorities-arrest-15-citizens-for-alleged-illegal-gold-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Authorities Arrest 15 Citizens for Alleged Illegal Gold Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Ndalatando \u2014 A group of 15 Angolan citizens suspected of illegal gold mining are being held in the city of Ndalatando, northern province of Cuanza-Norte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The detention of the individuals, aged between 27 and 70, took place in the early hours of Thursday (19), during a micro-operation in areas suspected of illegal exploitation of strategic minerals, in the municipality of Golungo Alto, by officers of the Angolan National Police (PNA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The information was made official on Friday (20) in Ndalatando&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603300090.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>Ndalatando \u2014 A group of 15 Angolan citizens suspected of illegal gold mining are being held in the city of Ndalatando, northern province of Cuanza-Norte. The detention of the individuals, aged between 27 and 70, took place in the early hours of Thursday (19), during a micro-operation in areas suspected of illegal exploitation of strategic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":229229,"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":[258,256,4305,3941,4263,6414,7215,7604,4644,6918,6477,257,254],"class_list":["post-229228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-arrest","tag-authorities","tag-citizens","tag-gold","tag-illegal","tag-mining","tag-news","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\/229228","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=229228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}