{"id":235049,"date":"2026-06-01T17:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-president-joao-lourenco-returns-to-luanda\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T17:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:02:21","slug":"angola-president-joao-lourenco-returns-to-luanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-president-joao-lourenco-returns-to-luanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o Returns to Luanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Luanda \u2014 President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o landed in Luanda on Thursday afternoon, following a 48-hour working visit to Zaire province, during which he chaired the 1st Ordinary Meeting of the Local Governance Council of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Upon arrival, the Head of State was received by the Vice-President of the Republic, Esperan\u00e7a da Costa, and other high-ranking Angolan state officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">During the visit, on Wednesday, the Head of State observed the progress of the works on the future Mbanza Kongo General Hospital&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605290065.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 landed in Luanda on Thursday afternoon, following a 48-hour working visit to Zaire province, during which he chaired the 1st Ordinary Meeting of the Local Governance Council of 2026. Upon arrival, the Head of State was received by the Vice-President of the Republic, Esperan\u00e7a da Costa, and other high-ranking Angolan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":235050,"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":[258,256,3941,4263,14019,14020,3938,257,2450,5068,254],"class_list":["post-235049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-joao","tag-lourenco","tag-luanda","tag-news","tag-president","tag-returns","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/235049","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=235049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}