{"id":207712,"date":"2025-09-20T18:55:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-regional-election-observers-urge-malawi-to-consider-diaspora-voting\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T18:55:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:55:01","slug":"namibia-regional-election-observers-urge-malawi-to-consider-diaspora-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-regional-election-observers-urge-malawi-to-consider-diaspora-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Regional Election Observers Urge Malawi to Consider Diaspora Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><em>The Southern African Development Community Electoral Observation Mission (Seom) has called on the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to consider allowing Malawians in the diaspora to participate in the country&#8217;s general elections.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Missiin head Themba Masuku made the call in the Malawian capital of Lilongwe on Thursday when the Seom presented its preliminary report on the elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Masuku, who is the former deputy prime minister of the Kingdom of Eswatini, said allowing Malawians living outside the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509190613.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern African Development Community Electoral Observation Mission (Seom) has called on the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to consider allowing Malawians in the diaspora to participate in the country&#8217;s general elections. Missiin head Themba Masuku made the call in the Malawian capital of Lilongwe on Thursday when the Seom presented its preliminary report on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":207713,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,3506,3119,5028,4706,724,257,12927,4268,254,10525,7755],"class_list":["post-207712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-diaspora","tag-election","tag-malawi","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-observers","tag-regional","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urge","tag-voting"],"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\/207712","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=207712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}