{"id":215667,"date":"2025-12-04T09:44:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-leicester-city-striker-patson-daka-named-wfp-goodwill-ambassador\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T09:44:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:44:34","slug":"zambia-leicester-city-striker-patson-daka-named-wfp-goodwill-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-leicester-city-striker-patson-daka-named-wfp-goodwill-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Leicester City Striker Patson Daka Named WFP Goodwill Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"111\">Lusaka \u2014 The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced the appointment of Zambian international soccer player Patson Daka as a WFP Goodwill Ambassador. Daka will use his platform on and off the pitch to raise awareness and advocate for WFP&#8217;s work towards ending hunger, with a focus on youth, nutrition, resilience building and community development. Daka&#8217;s soccer career rose from Zambia&#8217;s ranks to international success, earning accolades across Europe and now playing as a striker&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512040081.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) today announced the appointment of Zambian international soccer player Patson Daka as a WFP Goodwill Ambassador. Daka will use his platform on and off the pitch to raise awareness and advocate for WFP&#8217;s work towards ending hunger, with a focus on youth, nutrition, resilience building and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":215668,"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":[258,256,6269,6603,15019,15564,53032,11325,257,17398,254,23357,1639,4709,881],"class_list":["post-215667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ambassador","tag-city","tag-daka","tag-goodwill","tag-leicester","tag-named","tag-news","tag-patson","tag-south-africa-today","tag-striker","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\/215667","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=215667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}