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Zambia’s former president Edgar Chagwa Lungu has died at the age of 68 while receiving medical treatment in South Africa, his family and the Patriotic Front party have confirmed.<\/p>\n
Lungu passed away on Thursday morning, June 5, at Mediclinic Medforum Hospital in Pretoria, where he had been undergoing treatment reportedly related to cancer.<\/p>\n
His daughter, Tasila Lungu-Mwansa, announced the death in a sombre video message shared on the Patriotic Front’s official Facebook page.<\/p>\n
“I wish to inform the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Zambia’s former president Edgar Chagwa Lungu has died at the age of 68 while receiving medical treatment in South Africa, his family and the Patriotic Front party have confirmed. Lungu passed away on Thursday morning, June 5, at Mediclinic Medforum Hospital in Pretoria, where he had been undergoing treatment reportedly related to cancer. His daughter, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660842:7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,6868,11307,7280,257,2450,5069,254,4709,881,8982],"class_list":["post-199732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dies","tag-edgar","tag-lungu","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambias"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660842:7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199732","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=199732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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