{"id":239977,"date":"2026-07-31T07:27:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-embassy-staff-pay-tribute-to-former-ambassador-to-cuba\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T07:27:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:27:58","slug":"angola-embassy-staff-pay-tribute-to-former-ambassador-to-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-embassy-staff-pay-tribute-to-former-ambassador-to-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Embassy Staff Pay Tribute to Former Ambassador to Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Luanda \u2014 Staff from the Angolan Embassy in Cuba and members of the Angolan community residing in that central American country on Tuesday (21) paid tribute to former ambassador Carlos Cruz de Lemos Sardinha Dias, during a ceremony held at the Angolan House of Culture in the city of Havana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The event marked the conclusion of the posthumous tributes to the diplomat, who passed away on June 21 of the current year in Panama City due to an illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">According to a press release from the Angolan&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607230362.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 Staff from the Angolan Embassy in Cuba and members of the Angolan community residing in that central American country on Tuesday (21) paid tribute to former ambassador Carlos Cruz de Lemos Sardinha Dias, during a ceremony held at the Angolan House of Culture in the city of Havana. The event marked the conclusion [&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":[258,256,6269,3941,4263,6432,1946,257,9105,254,6221,10225],"class_list":["post-239977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ambassador","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-cuba","tag-embassy","tag-news","tag-pay","tag-south-africa-today","tag-staff","tag-tribute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239977","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=239977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239977\/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=239977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}