{"id":238757,"date":"2026-07-15T18:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-disagreements-prompt-postponement-of-cybersecurity-bill-discussion\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T18:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:54:21","slug":"angola-disagreements-prompt-postponement-of-cybersecurity-bill-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-disagreements-prompt-postponement-of-cybersecurity-bill-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Disagreements Prompt Postponement of Cybersecurity Bill Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Luanda \u2014 The National Assembly suspended the discussion of the Cybersecurity Bill within the specialized committees on Tuesday due to a lack of consensus between the Executive and the lawmakers regarding the preamble and the first two chapters of the proposed legislation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Lawmakers are calling for the revision of several points, arguing that they do not clearly reflect the intended purpose of the law. UNITA agreed with the postponement but warned of the risk that a new bill might be required,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607080702.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 National Assembly suspended the discussion of the Cybersecurity Bill within the specialized committees on Tuesday due to a lack of consensus between the Executive and the lawmakers regarding the preamble and the first two chapters of the proposed legislation. Lawmakers are calling for the revision of several points, arguing that they do [&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":[258,256,3941,4263,7292,9562,45771,6459,257,13763,10121,254],"class_list":["post-238757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-bill","tag-cybersecurity","tag-disagreements","tag-discussion","tag-news","tag-postponement","tag-prompt","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238757","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=238757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238757\/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=238757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}