{"id":233936,"date":"2026-05-21T16:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-head-of-state-calls-for-forgiveness-among-angolans\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T16:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:38:26","slug":"angola-head-of-state-calls-for-forgiveness-among-angolans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-head-of-state-calls-for-forgiveness-among-angolans\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Head of State Calls for Forgiveness Among Angolans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Luanda \u2014 President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o appealed to Angolans on Wednesday to cultivate forgiveness, reconciliation and the preservation of peace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">In a communication addressed to the nation, the Head of State acknowledged that Angola &#8220;has lived through dramatic moments in its history, which have left deep wounds&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">However, he stressed that the country has been able to address these scars within the framework of peace and national reconciliation, which has been consolidated over the last 24 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605210033.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 President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o appealed to Angolans on Wednesday to cultivate forgiveness, reconciliation and the preservation of peace. In a communication addressed to the nation, the Head of State acknowledged that Angola &#8220;has lived through dramatic moments in its history, which have left deep wounds&#8221;. However, he stressed that the country has been able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":233937,"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":[258,256,8700,3941,4263,8058,6137,15222,257,254,6017],"class_list":["post-233936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-among","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-angolans","tag-calls","tag-forgiveness","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state"],"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\/233936","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=233936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}