{"id":230473,"date":"2026-04-16T02:53:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T00:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-govt-strengthens-measures-to-combat-vandalism-and-illegal-mining\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T02:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T00:53:20","slug":"angola-govt-strengthens-measures-to-combat-vandalism-and-illegal-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-govt-strengthens-measures-to-combat-vandalism-and-illegal-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Govt Strengthens Measures to Combat Vandalism and Illegal Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Luanda \u2014 The Angolan Executive is reinforcing measures to combat vandalism of public property and illegal mining of minerals, the Minister of State and head of the Military Office of the President of the Republic, Francisco Furtado, announced on Thursday in Luanda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The government official was speaking to the press at the end of a meeting led by the President of the Republic, Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o, with the governors of the country&#8217;s 21 provinces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">According to Francisco Furtado, the Executive requested&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604070041.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 The Angolan Executive is reinforcing measures to combat vandalism of public property and illegal mining of minerals, the Minister of State and head of the Military Office of the President of the Republic, Francisco Furtado, announced on Thursday in Luanda. The government official was speaking to the press at the end of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230474,"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":[258,256,3941,4263,12857,4357,6918,7305,6477,257,254,11921,14183],"class_list":["post-230473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-combat","tag-govt","tag-illegal","tag-measures","tag-mining","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strengthens","tag-vandalism"],"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\/230473","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=230473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}