{"id":194668,"date":"2025-03-27T10:29:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T08:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-charles-prince-airport-upgrade-at-advanced-stage\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T10:29:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T08:29:40","slug":"zimbabwe-charles-prince-airport-upgrade-at-advanced-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-charles-prince-airport-upgrade-at-advanced-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Charles Prince Airport Upgrade At Advanced Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Charles Prince Airport in Mount Hampden is being upgraded to similar standards as the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">At present, the airport is being used as a dedicated hub for light aircraft and flying academies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona said in an interview that negotiations had already started with Chinese partners over how Charles Prince Airport could be expanded and upgraded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Agreements were forged between Zimbabwe and China during&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503270071.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>Charles Prince Airport in Mount Hampden is being upgraded to similar standards as the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport. At present, the airport is being used as a dedicated hub for light aircraft and flying academies. Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona said in an interview that negotiations had already started with Chinese partners [&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":[9089,258,256,2819,10286,257,16844,254,4281,12981,4686,421],"class_list":["post-194668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-advanced","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-airport","tag-charles","tag-news","tag-prince","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stage","tag-upgrade","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194668","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=194668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194668\/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=194668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}