{"id":204245,"date":"2025-08-08T15:12:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-all-of-africa-today-august-8-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T15:12:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:12:54","slug":"africa-all-of-africa-today-august-8-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-all-of-africa-today-august-8-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: All of Africa Today &#8211; August 8, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\"><strong>Medical Charity Plane Crashes in Nairobi, Kenya<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"167\">Six people were\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c4gm7m7zlxpo\" rel=\"noopener\">killed\u00a0<\/a>after a light aircraft belonging to a medical charity crashed in Kenya&#8217;s capital, Nairobi. Charity Amref Flying Doctors said the \u00a0Cessna plane took off from Wilson airport and was en route to Hargeisa in Somalia when it crashed and burst into flames at a residential building in Nairobi&#8217;s Githurai area. Four people on the plane were killed, including doctors, nurses, and the pilot, as well as two on the ground, while two&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508080082.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>\u00a0 Medical Charity Plane Crashes in Nairobi, Kenya Six people were\u00a0killed\u00a0after a light aircraft belonging to a medical charity crashed in Kenya&#8217;s capital, Nairobi. Charity Amref Flying Doctors said the \u00a0Cessna plane took off from Wilson airport and was en route to Hargeisa in Somalia when it crashed and burst into flames at a residential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":204246,"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\/00660790:31c3b799d93fc32e89804bf0300237d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,8060,257,254,6637,881],"class_list":["post-204245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-august","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-today","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660790:31c3b799d93fc32e89804bf0300237d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204245","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=204245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}