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Cape Town \u2014 The death of Zambia’s former president Edgar Lungu at 68\u00a0sparked confusion\u00a0about funeral arrangements due to\u00a0disagreements\u00a0between his family, his party Patriotic Front (PF), and the government.<\/p>\n
The government planned a state funeral at an official lodge in Lusaka, but the PF insists on holding it at their headquarters. The family wanted a say in who would lead the service. There was also confusion regarding the official mourning period and the location for signing condolence…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Cape Town \u2014 The death of Zambia’s former president Edgar Lungu at 68\u00a0sparked confusion\u00a0about funeral arrangements due to\u00a0disagreements\u00a0between his family, his party Patriotic Front (PF), and the government. The government planned a state funeral at an official lodge in Lusaka, but the PF insists on holding it at their headquarters. The family wanted a say […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200025,"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\/00670543:ab81a62ef5acea45744233fe368d7aa3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,29678,45771,8633,6038,7280,257,2450,254,4709,881],"class_list":["post-200024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cloud","tag-disagreements","tag-farewell","tag-final","tag-lungu","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670543:ab81a62ef5acea45744233fe368d7aa3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200024","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=200024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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