{"id":218426,"date":"2025-12-29T10:46:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-malawians-angry-about-vice-presidents-planned-uk-trip\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T10:46:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:46:51","slug":"namibia-malawians-angry-about-vice-presidents-planned-uk-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-malawians-angry-about-vice-presidents-planned-uk-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Malawians Angry About Vice President&#8217;s Planned UK Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>There is growing anger in Malawi over a post-Christmas fortnight trip to the United Kingdom that one of the country&#8217;s vice presidents is due to take.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Jane Ansah&#8217;s visit will be in a private capacity but the reported size of both her entourage and overall cost of the trip has ignited fierce criticism. The details have been disputed by her office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The row began after the circulation of an alleged leaked letter to the Malawi high commission in London, signed by secretary for foreign affairs Chauncy&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512260394.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is growing anger in Malawi over a post-Christmas fortnight trip to the United Kingdom that one of the country&#8217;s vice presidents is due to take. Jane Ansah&#8217;s visit will be in a private capacity but the reported size of both her entourage and overall cost of the trip has ignited fierce criticism. The details [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":218427,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,9676,15066,4706,724,257,7665,7527,254,7199,8505],"class_list":["post-218426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angry","tag-malawians","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-planned","tag-presidents","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trip","tag-vice"],"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\/218426","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=218426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}