{"id":239386,"date":"2026-07-24T07:11:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-at-least-two-citizens-arrested-with-35-diamonds-in-bie\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T07:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:11:26","slug":"angola-at-least-two-citizens-arrested-with-35-diamonds-in-bie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-at-least-two-citizens-arrested-with-35-diamonds-in-bie\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: At Least Two Citizens Arrested With 35 Diamonds in Bie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Cuito \u2014 The Criminal Investigation Service (SIC) detained two Angolan citizens, aged 49 and 51, in the municipality of Lubia, Bie province, in possession of 35 diamond stones aimed for sale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">This is the second time this month that the SIC has detained Angolan citizens in possession of diamonds in the municipality of Lubia, the first one in possession of 80 stones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">According to the SIC spokesperson, Carlos Oliveira, the traffickers were caught on Monday, as a result of a micro-operation aimed at&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607240045.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>Cuito \u2014 The Criminal Investigation Service (SIC) detained two Angolan citizens, aged 49 and 51, in the municipality of Lubia, Bie province, in possession of 35 diamond stones aimed for sale. This is the second time this month that the SIC has detained Angolan citizens in possession of diamonds in the municipality of Lubia, the [&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":[258,256,3941,4263,4304,8587,7604,1167,257,254],"class_list":["post-239386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-arrested","tag-bie","tag-citizens","tag-diamonds","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239386","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=239386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239386\/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=239386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}