{"id":229840,"date":"2026-04-08T14:22:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-road-traffic-between-benguela-and-huambo-disrupted-by-heavy-rains\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:22:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:22:50","slug":"angola-road-traffic-between-benguela-and-huambo-disrupted-by-heavy-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-road-traffic-between-benguela-and-huambo-disrupted-by-heavy-rains\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Road Traffic Between Benguela and Huambo Disrupted By Heavy Rains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Benguela \u2014 Road traffic between the provinces of Benguela and Huambo, via the National Road (EN) 260, has been interrupted since Sunday, ANGOP learnt on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The disruption follows the collapse of the bridge pillars over the H\u00e2lo River, in the municipality of Caimbambo (Benguela province), caused by the heavy rains that have been battering the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">The structure of the bridge crossing the H\u00e2lo River has been seriously compromised, with a risk of collapse if the intensity of the rainfall&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604070093.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>Benguela \u2014 Road traffic between the provinces of Benguela and Huambo, via the National Road (EN) 260, has been interrupted since Sunday, ANGOP learnt on Monday. The disruption follows the collapse of the bridge pillars over the H\u00e2lo River, in the municipality of Caimbambo (Benguela province), caused by the heavy rains that have been battering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":229841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681123:5e789fb51532f9b24622ef765f76225a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,9623,28682,8130,9779,257,15767,7414,254,9527],"class_list":["post-229840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-benguela","tag-disrupted","tag-heavy","tag-huambo","tag-news","tag-rains","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today","tag-traffic"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681123:5e789fb51532f9b24622ef765f76225a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229840","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=229840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}