{"id":240945,"date":"2026-08-12T19:55:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-uige-the-violence-of-the-angolan-political-police\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T19:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:55:27","slug":"angola-uige-the-violence-of-the-angolan-political-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-uige-the-violence-of-the-angolan-political-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: U\u00edge &#8211; the Violence of the Angolan Political Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Neide dos Santos, 24, was sitting in a bus parked near UNITA&#8217;s provincial headquarters in U\u00edge at about 2pm when stones began striking the vehicle. Another activist and the driver were with her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">&#8220;The driver ran to close the windows,&#8221; she recalls. As the attack intensified, he escaped. Neide remained behind. &#8220;The police threw tear-gas grenades inside the bus and I passed out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">An ambulance took her to the local hospital, where, she says, a doctor described her condition as &#8220;critical&#8221;. Officers&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608120050.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>Neide dos Santos, 24, was sitting in a bus parked near UNITA&#8217;s provincial headquarters in U\u00edge at about 2pm when stones began striking the vehicle. Another activist and the driver were with her. &#8220;The driver ran to close the windows,&#8221; she recalls. As the attack intensified, he escaped. Neide remained behind. &#8220;The police threw tear-gas [&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":[258,256,3941,4263,6556,257,662,6378,254,11339,2148],"class_list":["post-240945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-angolan","tag-news","tag-police","tag-political","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uige","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240945","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=240945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240945\/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=240945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}