{"id":182039,"date":"2024-10-07T12:02:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T10:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-calls-for-un-security-council-permanent-seat-grow-louder\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T12:02:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T10:02:18","slug":"zimbabwe-calls-for-un-security-council-permanent-seat-grow-louder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-calls-for-un-security-council-permanent-seat-grow-louder\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Calls for UN Security Council Permanent Seat Grow Louder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister, Ambassador Frederick Shava has commended the growing calls for Africa to have a permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council in line with demands from the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">He said this at the inaugural Thabo Mbeki Foundation Africa Peace and Security Dialogue in South Africa last week where he was standing in for President Mnangagwa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The event was held under the theme: &#8220;Towards a peaceful and Secure Africa: Challenges and Opportunities,&#8221; and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410070062.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>Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister, Ambassador Frederick Shava has commended the growing calls for Africa to have a permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council in line with demands from the continent. He said this at the inaugural Thabo Mbeki Foundation Africa Peace and Security Dialogue in South Africa last week where he [&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":[258,256,6137,6158,11916,21230,257,15799,8545,4586,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-182039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-grow","tag-louder","tag-news","tag-permanent","tag-seat","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182039","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=182039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182039\/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=182039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}