{"id":192197,"date":"2025-02-25T06:19:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T04:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/african-air-force-chiefs-symposium-focuses-on-humanitarian-crises-not-conflict\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T06:19:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T04:19:39","slug":"african-air-force-chiefs-symposium-focuses-on-humanitarian-crises-not-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/african-air-force-chiefs-symposium-focuses-on-humanitarian-crises-not-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"African Air Force Chiefs&#8217; Symposium Focuses on Humanitarian Crises, Not Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">Monrovia \u2014 The heads of African air forces have called for the &#8220;strengthening military aviation across borders&#8221; during their annual symposium which is being in the Zambian capital of Lusaka. This year&#8217;s gathering takes place against the backdrop of escalating <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/armsandarmies\/\" rel=\"noopener\">conflicts <\/a>in the region, including <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/congo_kinshasa\/\" rel=\"noopener\">DR Congo<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/sudan\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Sudan<\/a>, which killed thousands of people and displaced millions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">However, U.S. General James Hecker, commander of U.S. Air Forces Europe &#8211; U.S Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA), said during an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502240606.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>Monrovia \u2014 The heads of African air forces have called for the &#8220;strengthening military aviation across borders&#8221; during their annual symposium which is being in the Zambian capital of Lusaka. This year&#8217;s gathering takes place against the backdrop of escalating conflicts in the region, including DR Congo and Sudan, which killed thousands of people and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":192198,"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\/00010400:0ce4e09e5f1ef5a10a586599673992f8:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,4380,7832,7493,2444,14650,7132,4383,6068,257,254,5689,881],"class_list":["post-192197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-air","tag-chiefs","tag-conflict","tag-crises","tag-focuses","tag-force","tag-humanitarian","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-symposium","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00010400:0ce4e09e5f1ef5a10a586599673992f8:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192197","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=192197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}