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Edgar Lungu’s wife, Esther, says in an affidavit that her husband had insisted that Hakainde Hichilema should be ‘nowhere near his funeral or body’. Lungu’s family says he was repeatedly denied permission to travel to South Africa for medical care and argues that his cancer could have been treated if identified sooner. <\/em><\/p>\n The Zambian government accuses his widow of making ‘scandalous and vexatious’ allegations.<\/em><\/p>\n The family of the late former Zambian president Edgar Lungu says plans to repatriate his…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Edgar Lungu’s wife, Esther, says in an affidavit that her husband had insisted that Hakainde Hichilema should be ‘nowhere near his funeral or body’. Lungu’s family says he was repeatedly denied permission to travel to South Africa for medical care and argues that his cancer could have been treated if identified sooner. The Zambian government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":203138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,10033,11307,11331,21332,7280,257,6378,2450,9618,11375,254,4709,881,4396],"class_list":["post-203137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-burial","tag-edgar","tag-grave","tag-incumbent","tag-lungu","tag-news","tag-political","tag-row","tag-snubs","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambian"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203137","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=203137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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