{"id":238550,"date":"2026-07-12T06:44:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T04:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-institute-denounces-devastation-of-flora-in-areas-bordering-drc\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T06:44:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T04:44:42","slug":"angola-institute-denounces-devastation-of-flora-in-areas-bordering-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-institute-denounces-devastation-of-flora-in-areas-bordering-drc\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Institute Denounces Devastation of Flora in Areas Bordering DRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Mbanza-Kongo \u2014 The head of department of the Forest Development Institute (IDF) in the province of Zaire, Ov\u00eddio Dala, denounced on Tuesday (07) in the municipality of Mbanza-Kongo the large-scale devastation of flora in the municipalities that share a border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Speaking to ANGOP, the official said that the situation occurs mostly in the municipalities of Soyo, Luvo, Cuimba, and N\u00f3qui, where citizens from this neighbouring country illegally enter national&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607090422.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>Mbanza-Kongo \u2014 The head of department of the Forest Development Institute (IDF) in the province of Zaire, Ov\u00eddio Dala, denounced on Tuesday (07) in the municipality of Mbanza-Kongo the large-scale devastation of flora in the municipalities that share a border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. Speaking to ANGOP, the official said that the situation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,7311,45949,8435,27360,279,43716,13642,257,254],"class_list":["post-238550","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-bordering","tag-denounces","tag-devastation","tag-drc","tag-flora","tag-institute","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238550","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=238550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}