{"id":245533,"date":"2026-09-25T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-ombudsman-identifies-citizens-primary-complaints\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T09:00:24","slug":"angola-ombudsman-identifies-citizens-primary-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-ombudsman-identifies-citizens-primary-complaints\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Ombudsman Identifies Citizens&#8217; Primary Complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Mbanza Kongo \u2014 Ombudsman Jo\u00e3o Manuel Francisco on Wednesday (23) in Mbanza Kongo City, northern Zaire Province, identified excessive pre-trial detention (remand) as the main complaint citizens present to the institution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">Speaking to the press after a lecture he delivered on the &#8220;Mandate and role of the Ombudsperson in defending citizens&#8217; rights, freedoms and guarantees&#8221;, the official also mentioned wrongful dismissals, land disputes, as well as lack of notification regarding already served&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609240466.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>Mbanza Kongo \u2014 Ombudsman Jo\u00e3o Manuel Francisco on Wednesday (23) in Mbanza Kongo City, northern Zaire Province, identified excessive pre-trial detention (remand) as the main complaint citizens present to the institution. Speaking to the press after a lecture he delivered on the &#8220;Mandate and role of the Ombudsperson in defending citizens&#8217; rights, freedoms and guarantees&#8221;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":245534,"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":[258,256,3941,4263,7604,9728,10872,257,8087,7518,254],"class_list":["post-245533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-citizens","tag-complaints","tag-identifies","tag-news","tag-ombudsman","tag-primary","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\/245533","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=245533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}