{"id":216838,"date":"2025-12-16T10:13:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T08:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-lawyers-4ed-goes-continental-with-new-africa-wide-development-body\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T10:13:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T08:13:49","slug":"zimbabwe-lawyers-4ed-goes-continental-with-new-africa-wide-development-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-lawyers-4ed-goes-continental-with-new-africa-wide-development-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Lawyers 4ED Goes Continental With New Africa-Wide Development Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Lawyers for Economic Development has announced plans to expand its footprint across Africa launching a new continental platform aimed at linking law, investment and economic development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Lawyers for 4 ED said the move would see the creation of African Lawyers for Economic Development (ALED) a body designed to replicate Zimbabwe&#8217;s model of legal-economic collaboration across the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">In a statement, the organisation&#8217;s president Advocate Mellisa Dinha said the transition followed two years of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512160072.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers for Economic Development has announced plans to expand its footprint across Africa launching a new continental platform aimed at linking law, investment and economic development. Lawyers for 4 ED said the move would see the creation of African Lawyers for Economic Development (ALED) a body designed to replicate Zimbabwe&#8217;s model of legal-economic collaboration across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[53149,258,256,26521,7978,9133,5989,8569,257,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-216838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-4ed","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africawide","tag-body","tag-continental","tag-development","tag-lawyers","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216838","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=216838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}