{"id":214794,"date":"2025-11-25T09:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-rolling-out-red-carpet-for-cholera\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T09:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:23:16","slug":"zambia-rolling-out-red-carpet-for-cholera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-rolling-out-red-carpet-for-cholera\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Rolling Out Red Carpet for Cholera?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">&#8220;HERE we go again,&#8221; whined Zonda, dusting off the mud from his shoes as he walked towards the seat. &#8220;The rains have arrived and guess what, bosses &#8212;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">people have already rolled out the red carpet to welcome our annual festival of<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\">dirt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\">&#8220;Wait, wait, buddy!&#8221; I crackled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">&#8220;Who has arrived, and what do you mean &#8216;festival of dirt&#8217;? Since when did you start speaking in parables, man?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">He crossed his legs and leaned forward, smiling&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511250010.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>&#8220;HERE we go again,&#8221; whined Zonda, dusting off the mud from his shoes as he walked towards the seat. &#8220;The rains have arrived and guess what, bosses &#8212; people have already rolled out the red carpet to welcome our annual festival of dirt.&#8221; &#8220;Wait, wait, buddy!&#8221; I crackled. Follow us on WhatsApp | LinkedIn for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":214795,"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":[258,256,16466,879,257,10722,34084,254,4709,881],"class_list":["post-214794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-carpet","tag-cholera","tag-news","tag-red","tag-rolling","tag-south-africa-today","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\/214794","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=214794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}