{"id":213386,"date":"2025-11-12T20:49:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/malawi-muluzi-the-peace-maker-now-walks-away-zambia-must-now-handle-its-own-mess\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T20:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:49:30","slug":"malawi-muluzi-the-peace-maker-now-walks-away-zambia-must-now-handle-its-own-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/malawi-muluzi-the-peace-maker-now-walks-away-zambia-must-now-handle-its-own-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi: Muluzi &#8216;The Peace Maker&#8217; Now Walks Away &#8211; &#8216;Zambia Must Now Handle Its Own Mess&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">In a rare public show of frustration and diplomatic exhaustion, Malawi&#8217;s former President Dr. Bakili Muluzi has officially withdrawn from the high-profile mediation process surrounding the late Zambian leader Edgar Chagwa Lungu&#8217;s protracted burial impasse &#8212; effectively signaling the end of his patience and faith in Zambia&#8217;s ability to resolve the matter amicably.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">In a three-page statement dated 11th November 2025, Muluzi &#8212; who had been quietly leading behind-the-scenes mediation efforts between&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511120269.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>In a rare public show of frustration and diplomatic exhaustion, Malawi&#8217;s former President Dr. Bakili Muluzi has officially withdrawn from the high-profile mediation process surrounding the late Zambian leader Edgar Chagwa Lungu&#8217;s protracted burial impasse &#8212; effectively signaling the end of his patience and faith in Zambia&#8217;s ability to resolve the matter amicably. In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":213387,"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":[258,256,8678,5055,5028,10100,51645,257,6157,254,15792,4709,881],"class_list":["post-213386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-handle","tag-maker","tag-malawi","tag-mess","tag-muluzi","tag-news","tag-peace","tag-south-africa-today","tag-walks","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\/213386","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=213386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}