{"id":210518,"date":"2025-10-20T07:56:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T05:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-guns-gangs-and-gold-the-battle-for-zambias-riches\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T07:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T05:56:22","slug":"zambia-guns-gangs-and-gold-the-battle-for-zambias-riches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-guns-gangs-and-gold-the-battle-for-zambias-riches\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Guns, Gangs and Gold &#8211; the Battle for Zambia&#8217;s Riches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\"><em> Social media posts have triggered a rush of gold diggers <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thousands of people have flooded into northwestern Zambia seeking gold said to be buried just under the surface.<\/li>\n<li>The gold rush in Kikonge has attracted gangs from the Copperbelt and Lusaka.<\/li>\n<li>Violent clashes have broken out with police.<\/li>\n<li>The site is on traditional land and traditional leaders have called for the army to be deployed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Social media posts about gold buried just beneath the surface have triggered a rush of fortune-seekers into&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510200014.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>Social media posts have triggered a rush of gold diggers Thousands of people have flooded into northwestern Zambia seeking gold said to be buried just under the surface. The gold rush in Kikonge has attracted gangs from the Copperbelt and Lusaka. Violent clashes have broken out with police. The site is on traditional land and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":210519,"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":[258,256,7887,20815,4644,2235,257,52623,254,4709,881,8982],"class_list":["post-210518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-battle","tag-gangs","tag-gold","tag-guns","tag-news","tag-riches","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambias"],"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\/210518","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=210518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}