{"id":242762,"date":"2026-08-31T20:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/congo-kinshasa-dr-congo-sees-lobito-corridor-as-tool-for-economic-sovereignty\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T20:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:37:12","slug":"congo-kinshasa-dr-congo-sees-lobito-corridor-as-tool-for-economic-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/congo-kinshasa-dr-congo-sees-lobito-corridor-as-tool-for-economic-sovereignty\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo-Kinshasa: DR Congo Sees Lobito Corridor As Tool for Economic Sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Kinshasa \u2014 President F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Wednesday in Kinshasa called for the Lobito Corridor to be transformed into a tool for economic sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Tshisekedi was speaking at a joint press conference with his Angolan counterpart, Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o, after they witnessed the signing of the railway concession agreement for the development of the Lobito Corridor in the DRC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">&#8220;Together, let us make the Lobito Corridor a concrete instrument of African&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608270040.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 President F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Wednesday in Kinshasa called for the Lobito Corridor to be transformed into a tool for economic sovereignty. Tshisekedi was speaking at a joint press conference with his Angolan counterpart, Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o, after they witnessed the signing of the railway concession agreement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":242763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680106:4bf2e742e06087a9f0b0a758102148ef:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,4263,4554,8386,12298,3576,12373,257,10159,254,864,6611],"class_list":["post-242762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola-news","tag-congo","tag-congokinshasa","tag-corridor","tag-economic","tag-lobito","tag-news","tag-sees","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sovereignty","tag-tool"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680106:4bf2e742e06087a9f0b0a758102148ef:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242762","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=242762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}