{"id":179487,"date":"2024-08-29T10:21:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T08:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/southern-africa-we-are-not-at-the-sadc-summit-to-call-each-other-names-says-malawian-president-as-bloc-is-accused-of-ignoring-zimbabwes-human-rights-situation\/"},"modified":"2024-08-29T10:21:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T08:21:30","slug":"southern-africa-we-are-not-at-the-sadc-summit-to-call-each-other-names-says-malawian-president-as-bloc-is-accused-of-ignoring-zimbabwes-human-rights-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/southern-africa-we-are-not-at-the-sadc-summit-to-call-each-other-names-says-malawian-president-as-bloc-is-accused-of-ignoring-zimbabwes-human-rights-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: We Are Not At the SADC Summit to Call Each Other Names &#8211; Says Malawian President As Bloc Is Accused of Ignoring Zimbabwe&#8217;s Human Rights Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">MALAWI President Lazarus Chakwera has said the recently concluded Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit was not a platform to rein in President Emmerson Mnangagwa over human rights abuse, but rather address issues of governance and democracy in a broader manner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">In the lead-up to the summit, Mnangagwa&#8217;s government faced international scrutiny for its crackdown on pro-democracy activists and opposition supporters over suspicions of planning demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Over 100 activists remain&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408290074.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MALAWI President Lazarus Chakwera has said the recently concluded Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit was not a platform to rein in President Emmerson Mnangagwa over human rights abuse, but rather address issues of governance and democracy in a broader manner. In the lead-up to the summit, Mnangagwa&#8217;s government faced international scrutiny for its crackdown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[7083,258,256,15414,6880,3575,12503,10173,8650,257,2450,5100,1412,6325,254,7153,5757,421,7726],"class_list":["post-179487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bloc","tag-call","tag-human","tag-ignoring","tag-malawian","tag-names","tag-news","tag-president","tag-rights","tag-sadc","tag-situation","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-summit","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179487","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=179487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}