{"id":242652,"date":"2026-08-30T08:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T06:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/congo-kinshasa-angola-and-dr-congo-review-impact-of-railway-contract\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T08:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T06:33:19","slug":"congo-kinshasa-angola-and-dr-congo-review-impact-of-railway-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/congo-kinshasa-angola-and-dr-congo-review-impact-of-railway-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo-Kinshasa: Angola and DR Congo Review Impact of Railway Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Kinshasa \u2014 Angolan President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o held a private meeting on Wednesday in Kinshasa with his counterpart from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi, to examine the implications of a new railway concession agreement for the development of the Lobito Corridor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The meeting between the two leaders preceded a sectoral session involving the delegations of both countries, bringing together ministerial departments and experts linked to the concession agreement due to be&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608270041.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>Kinshasa \u2014 Angolan President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o held a private meeting on Wednesday in Kinshasa with his counterpart from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi, to examine the implications of a new railway concession agreement for the development of the Lobito Corridor. The meeting between the two leaders preceded a sectoral session involving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":242653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,4554,8386,7062,5064,257,2918,6399,254],"class_list":["post-242652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-congo","tag-congokinshasa","tag-contract","tag-impact","tag-news","tag-railway","tag-review","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242652","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=242652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}