{"id":231681,"date":"2026-04-28T15:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-huila-governor-warns-about-the-impact-of-illegal-mining-in-licensed-areas\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:42:17","slug":"angola-huila-governor-warns-about-the-impact-of-illegal-mining-in-licensed-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-huila-governor-warns-about-the-impact-of-illegal-mining-in-licensed-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Huila Governor Warns About the Impact of Illegal Mining in Licensed Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Lubango \u2014 The governor of Hu\u00edla, Nuno Mahapi, on Monday warned about the negative impact of illegal mining in formally licensed areas that are currently inoperative, and advocated for a coordinated intervention to stop the phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Speaking at the opening of a consultation meeting with ornamental rock operators, the official highlighted that the practice has been recurrent in several locations, particularly in areas of the Jamba Mineira municipality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">For the governor, the absence of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604270072.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>Lubango \u2014 The governor of Hu\u00edla, Nuno Mahapi, on Monday warned about the negative impact of illegal mining in formally licensed areas that are currently inoperative, and advocated for a coordinated intervention to stop the phenomenon. Speaking at the opening of a consultation meeting with ornamental rock operators, the official highlighted that the practice has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":231682,"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":[258,256,3941,4263,7311,4269,13073,6918,5064,22118,6477,257,254,6853],"class_list":["post-231681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-areas","tag-governor","tag-huila","tag-illegal","tag-impact","tag-licensed","tag-mining","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warns"],"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\/231681","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=231681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}