{"id":31036,"date":"2026-04-07T17:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31036"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:49:20","slug":"floods-claim-dozens-of-lives-in-angola","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/floods-claim-dozens-of-lives-in-angola\/","title":{"rendered":"Floods claim dozens of lives in Angola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of people have died following severe floods caused by heavy rains in Angola, affecting the capital, Luanda, and other parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services have reported at least 29 deaths in Luanda and the central city of Benguela, with more than 34 000 people impacted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o expressed his sorrow over the loss of life, saying the nation is in a \u201crace against the clock\u201d to rescue those affected and provide urgent medical care.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31037,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-31036","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Dozens of people have died following severe floods caused by heavy rains in Angola","published_date":"2026-04-07 17:47:19","news_description":"Dozens of people have died following severe floods caused by heavy rains in Angola","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31038,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31036\/revisions\/31038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=31036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}