{"id":85589,"date":"2017-08-23T05:18:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T05:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/angolans-choosing-president-after-40-years\/"},"modified":"2017-08-23T05:18:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T05:18:47","slug":"angolans-choosing-president-after-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/angolans-choosing-president-after-40-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Angolans choosing president after 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"385\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2017\/August\/23\/After-Almost-38-Years-In-Office-Angolan-President-Won\u2019t-Seek-Re-Election.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LUANDA-KABUL (SW): The people of Angola are voting to choose their president on Wednesday, ending President Jose Eduardo dos Santos&rsquo;s 38-year reign.<\/p>\n<p>Joao Lourencou, a candidate for the People&#39;s Movement for the Liberation of Angola, who promised to fight corruption and economic growth, has the greatest chance of winning the election.<\/p>\n<p>Angola is the second largest oil producer in the African continent.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Eduardo dos Santos has been the president of Angola in the past 38 years, but now he has decided to give power to someone else due health reasons; he has introduced a successor to the people to elect him in this election. That&#39;s why the likelihood of Joao Lourencou&rsquo;s win is more than any other competitor.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUANDA-KABUL (SW): The people of Angola are voting to choose their president on Wednesday, ending President Jose Eduardo dos Santos\u2019s 38-year reign. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-85589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}