{"id":44239,"date":"2021-08-26T07:28:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T07:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/minister-biruta-attends-inauguration-of-new-president-of-zambia\/"},"modified":"2021-08-26T07:37:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T07:37:01","slug":"minister-biruta-attends-inauguration-of-new-president-of-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/minister-biruta-attends-inauguration-of-new-president-of-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Biruta attends inauguration of Zambia&#8217;s President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the ceremony, Hakainde held private talks with several visiting Heads of State and foreign dignitaries including Dr. Biruta at Taj Pamodzi Hotel in Lusaka, Zambia. <\/p>\n<p>Zambia\u2019s President has revealed that discussions revolved around different topics to foster foreign relations.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe shared our development agenda with them which we called &#8220;Development for Zambia and Zambians first. We are working on ensuring that Zambia benefits from its geographical position which will foster regional cooperation and integration,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe assured the visiting dignitaries of our commitment to ensuring that Zambia\u2019s economy is restored for the sake of the nation and the region at large,\u201d added Hakainde.  <\/p>\n<p>Apart from Minister Biruta, other dignitaries who witnessed the nauguration ceremony include Felix Tshisekedi Tshilombo, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Chairperson of the African Union; Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera of Malawi and Chairperson of SADC, Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya; Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique, Hage Gottfried Geingob of Namibia, Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe and Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa among others.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39305 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/zambia_congs_feli.jpg\" alt=\"Felix Tshisekedi Tshilombo, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo congratulating the new President of Zambia.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Vincent Biruta on Tuesday 24th August 2021 attended the swearing-in ceremony of newly elected President of Zambia, Hakainde Hichilema.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-44239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44239","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44239"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44239"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}