{"id":178496,"date":"2024-08-14T03:33:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T01:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-to-reopen-border-with-drc-after-trade-dispute\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T03:33:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T01:33:10","slug":"zambia-to-reopen-border-with-drc-after-trade-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-to-reopen-border-with-drc-after-trade-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia to Reopen Border With DRC After Trade Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\"><em><em>Zambia briefly closed its border to the Democratic Republic of the Congo over a trade dispute. The decision to shut its border threatened Congo&#8217;s ability to export its minerals.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Zambia agreed to reopen its border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Monday night after briefly closing it over the weekend due to a trade dispute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">&#8220;The Zambian party informed the Congolese party that the border will be reopened, in order to allow the free movement of people and goods between the Democratic&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408130015.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>Zambia briefly closed its border to the Democratic Republic of the Congo over a trade dispute. The decision to shut its border threatened Congo&#8217;s ability to export its minerals. Zambia agreed to reopen its border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Monday night after briefly closing it over the weekend due to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":178497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00621537:83391f01c4cca40b9f1f8ac8f9700e55:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,1900,9424,279,257,14726,254,5979,4709,881],"class_list":["post-178496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-border","tag-dispute","tag-drc","tag-news","tag-reopen","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trade","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00621537:83391f01c4cca40b9f1f8ac8f9700e55:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178496","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=178496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}