{"id":247613,"date":"2026-10-20T05:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-malawi-flames-left-stranded-at-luanda-airport-for-nearly-two-hours-as-angolan-officials-fail-to-show\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T05:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:30:07","slug":"angola-malawi-flames-left-stranded-at-luanda-airport-for-nearly-two-hours-as-angolan-officials-fail-to-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-malawi-flames-left-stranded-at-luanda-airport-for-nearly-two-hours-as-angolan-officials-fail-to-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola\/Malawi: Flames Left Stranded At Luanda Airport for Nearly Two Hours As Angolan Officials Fail to Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Malawi&#8217;s national football team were left waiting at Luanda airport for almost two hours after landing in Angola, with no one from the host federation there to meet them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Flames touched down at 4 de Fevereiro International Airport at exactly 16:30, only to find nobody from the Angolan Football Federation waiting. After an hour, two officials finally turned up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">They told the Malawi delegation they had believed the plane would land at Luanda&#8217;s newly opened airport. After apologising, they&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610050186.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>Malawi&#8217;s national football team were left waiting at Luanda airport for almost two hours after landing in Angola, with no one from the host federation there to meet them. The Flames touched down at 4 de Fevereiro International Airport at exactly 16:30, only to find nobody from the Angolan Football Federation waiting. After an hour, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":247614,"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":[258,256,2819,4263,19086,6556,6900,16114,9088,7781,3938,257,6651,11004,254,7248],"class_list":["post-247613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-airport","tag-angola-news","tag-angolamalawi","tag-angolan","tag-fail","tag-flames","tag-hours","tag-left","tag-luanda","tag-news","tag-officials","tag-show","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stranded"],"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\/247613","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=247613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}