{"id":7389,"date":"2020-01-10T08:51:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T05:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7389"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:47","slug":"dozens-killed-by-heavy-rain-in-angola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/10\/dozens-killed-by-heavy-rain-in-angola\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens Killed By Heavy Rain In Angola"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Daily\nNation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Torrential\nrain in Angola has killed 41 people and caused widespread destruction, the\ngovernment said on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twelve out\nof 18 provinces were hit by a violent downpour which began in the early hours\nof Monday and lasted late into the afternoon, Interior Minister Eugenio\nLaborinho said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forty-one\npeople died and more than 300 homes were destroyed by flooding, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;In\nrecent days we have been witnessing heavy rainfall, causing flooding,\ndestruction of infrastructure and plantations,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than\n2,000 families had been affected, said Laborinho, warning that drinking water\nand electricity supplies had been cut off in some areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rain\ncomes on the heels of a severe regional drought caused by years of erratic\nrainfall and record-high temperatures. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/africa\/Dozens-killed-by-heavy-rain-in-Angola\/1066-5412932-117tt5az\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation Torrential rain in Angola has killed 41 people and caused widespread destruction, the government said on Thursday. Twelve out of 18 provinces were hit by a violent&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}