{"id":132,"date":"2008-08-19T22:05:52","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T22:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2008\/president-of-zambia-dies\/"},"modified":"2009-04-06T07:07:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T07:07:53","slug":"president-of-zambia-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2008\/president-of-zambia-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia president dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Mwanawasa passed away today in a Paris hospital, aged 59. Vice-President Rupiah Banda, who I personally met in February, is expected to be announced as the acting leader. He is a close friend of Chief Mukuni and I was invited to meet him during his visit to <a title=\"Mukuni Village\" href=\"\/pages\/mukuni-village\/\" target=\"_self\">Mukuni Village<\/a>. President Mwanawasa was renowned for his integrity and his fight against corruption and most recently for strongly criticizing Zimbabwe&#8217;s violent election campaign.\u00a0This is\u00a0a great loss to the people of Zambia.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"imageframe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-content\/images\/340x.jpg\" alt=\"President of Zambia\" width=\"340\" height=\"441\" \/><br \/>\n<em>President Mwanawasa (photo courtesy of Daylife)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Mwanawasa passed away today in a Paris hospital, aged 59. Vice-President Rupiah Banda, who I personally met in February, is expected to be announced as the acting leader. He is a close friend of Chief Mukuni and I was<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2008\/president-of-zambia-dies\/\"> More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}