{"id":242948,"date":"2026-09-02T08:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-president-joao-lourenco-to-witness-signing-of-lobito-corridor-contract-in-the-dr-congo\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T08:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:40:19","slug":"angola-president-joao-lourenco-to-witness-signing-of-lobito-corridor-contract-in-the-dr-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-president-joao-lourenco-to-witness-signing-of-lobito-corridor-contract-in-the-dr-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o to Witness Signing of Lobito Corridor Contract in the DR Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Luanda \u2014 Angolan President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o will witness, on Wednesday in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the signing of a contract linked to the development of the Lobito Corridor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">According to the President&#8217;s Information Services, the several-hour visit will also include a bilateral meeting between Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o and his DRC counterpart, F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi, to discuss matters of common interest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The Angolan Head of State&#8217;s trip forms part of efforts to strengthen regional&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608260096.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 Angolan President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o will witness, on Wednesday in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the signing of a contract linked to the development of the Lobito Corridor. According to the President&#8217;s Information Services, the several-hour visit will also include a bilateral meeting between Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o and his DRC counterpart, F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":242949,"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":[258,256,3941,4263,4554,7062,12298,14019,12373,14020,257,2450,4379,254,7896],"class_list":["post-242948","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-contract","tag-corridor","tag-joao","tag-lobito","tag-lourenco","tag-news","tag-president","tag-signing","tag-south-africa-today","tag-witness"],"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\/242948","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=242948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}