{"id":232298,"date":"2026-05-04T15:56:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-and-zambia-strengthen-cooperation-in-defence-and-security\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:56:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:56:51","slug":"angola-and-zambia-strengthen-cooperation-in-defence-and-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-and-zambia-strengthen-cooperation-in-defence-and-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola and Zambia Strengthen Cooperation in Defence and Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Luanda \u2014 The holding of the 34th Meeting of the Permanent Joint Commission on Defence and Security between Angola and Zambia will strengthen bilateral cooperation and allow for a coordinated response to common challenges in the field of security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">According to the Secretary of State for National Defence, Jos\u00e9 Maria de Lima, who was speaking this Saturday at the opening of the session of the meeting of senior officials, which is taking place in the country&#8217;s capital until next week, the mechanism&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605040290.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 holding of the 34th Meeting of the Permanent Joint Commission on Defence and Security between Angola and Zambia will strengthen bilateral cooperation and allow for a coordinated response to common challenges in the field of security. According to the Secretary of State for National Defence, Jos\u00e9 Maria de Lima, who was speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":232299,"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":[258,256,3941,4263,6454,6874,257,4586,254,6433,4709],"class_list":["post-232298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-cooperation","tag-defence","tag-news","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strengthen","tag-zambia"],"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\/232298","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=232298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}