{"id":178388,"date":"2024-08-12T15:30:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T13:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zimbabwe-immigration-authorities-decry-spike-in-zimbabwe-zambia-border-jumping-due-to-receding-water-levels-on-zambezi-river\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T15:30:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T13:30:55","slug":"zimbabwe-immigration-authorities-decry-spike-in-zimbabwe-zambia-border-jumping-due-to-receding-water-levels-on-zambezi-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zimbabwe-immigration-authorities-decry-spike-in-zimbabwe-zambia-border-jumping-due-to-receding-water-levels-on-zambezi-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Immigration Authorities Decry Spike in Zimbabwe-Zambia Border Jumping Due to Receding Water Levels On Zambezi River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The illegal movement of immigrants from Zambia into Zimbabwe, and vice versa, is now rampant due to receding water levels in the Zambezi River that separates the two neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The reduced water volume is as a result of the current drought wrought by the El Nino-induced weather pattern characterised by low rainfall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Border authorities say the crocodile-infested river, when in flood, is a deterrent on its own, and helps in reducing cases of illegal movement of human traffic as well as&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408120338.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The illegal movement of immigrants from Zambia into Zimbabwe, and vice versa, is now rampant due to receding water levels in the Zambezi River that separates the two neighbouring countries. The reduced water volume is as a result of the current drought wrought by the El Nino-induced weather pattern characterised by low rainfall. Border authorities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":178389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,7215,1900,8543,6605,9333,16990,8029,257,49268,7263,254,10860,6722,7392,881,4686,11856],"class_list":["post-178388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-authorities","tag-border","tag-decry","tag-due","tag-immigration","tag-jumping","tag-levels","tag-news","tag-receding","tag-river","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spike","tag-water","tag-zambezi","tag-zambia-news","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwezambia"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}