{"id":2628,"date":"2012-07-01T04:10:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T04:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/new-article-2628\/"},"modified":"2012-07-01T04:11:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T04:11:13","slug":"new-article-2628","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/new-article-2628\/","title":{"rendered":"George Bush in Zambia for Community Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-1526 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gw.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{George walker Bush, Former US president is in Zambia to check on the Bush Institute projects of breast and cancer diseases launched in Lusaka last year.<\/p>\n<p>Bush, his wife Laura and Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon executive director Doyin Oluwole arrived Saturday morning and was welcomed by that country\u2019s Vice-President Guy Scott.}}<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important to recognise that this [visit] is part of the Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon alliance which includes the United States government, the Bush Institute, Unaids as well as several different private organisations including different pharmaceuticals,\u201d United States diplomat to Zambia Mark Storella told journalists at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe total money that is being put in is certainly in millions of dollars and on this particular visit president Bush and Bush are providing $50,000 themselves to upgrade a specific facility technologically at the University Teaching Hospital,\u201d Ambassador Storella told journalists yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Storella said Bush, who did not speak to reporters, was expected to do some voluntary work in the outskirts of the capital Lusaka. The voluntary work by the Americans is at a \u201cvery personal level\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Storella said Bush was expected to be in Zambia \u201cfor just about less than a week\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On his previous visit to Africa, Bush toured Tanzania, Ethiopia and Zambia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{George walker Bush, Former US president is in Zambia to check on the Bush Institute projects of breast and cancer diseases launched in Lusaka last year. Bush, his wife Laura and Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon executive director Doyin Oluwole arrived Saturday morning and was welcomed by that country\u2019s Vice-President Guy Scott.}} \u201cIt is important to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}