{"id":212741,"date":"2025-11-06T20:32:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-china-contributes-to-wfp-to-deliver-emergency-food-assistance-for-communities-struck-by-drought-in-zambia\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T20:32:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:32:39","slug":"zambia-china-contributes-to-wfp-to-deliver-emergency-food-assistance-for-communities-struck-by-drought-in-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-china-contributes-to-wfp-to-deliver-emergency-food-assistance-for-communities-struck-by-drought-in-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: China Contributes to WFP to Deliver Emergency Food Assistance for Communities Struck By Drought in Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"80\">Lusaka \u2014 The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution from the Government of the People&#8217;s Republic of China to locally procure over 5,600 metric tonnes of maize to deliver food assistance for drought-affected communities in Zambia. Channelled through China&#8217;s Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund, the funding will allow WFP to procure maize from local markets to support nearly 190,000 vulnerable people (over 37,000 families) in six districts across Southern&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511060086.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>Lusaka \u2014 The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution from the Government of the People&#8217;s Republic of China to locally procure over 5,600 metric tonnes of maize to deliver food assistance for drought-affected communities in Zambia. Channelled through China&#8217;s Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund, the funding will allow WFP to procure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":212742,"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":[258,256,9651,434,7103,9847,6126,4787,6990,5074,257,254,17993,1639,4709,881],"class_list":["post-212741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assistance","tag-china","tag-communities","tag-contributes","tag-deliver","tag-drought","tag-emergency","tag-food","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-struck","tag-wfp","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"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\/212741","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=212741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}