{"id":223008,"date":"2026-02-06T12:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-president-mahama-arrives-in-zambia-for-3-day-state-visit\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T12:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:14:25","slug":"zambia-president-mahama-arrives-in-zambia-for-3-day-state-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-president-mahama-arrives-in-zambia-for-3-day-state-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: President Mahama Arrives in Zambia for 3-Day State Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">PRESIDENT John Dramani Mahama yesterday arrived in Lusaka, Zambia, for a three-day State Visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The President, who is accompanied by his wife, Mrs Lordina Mahama, arrived from Dubai after participating in the World Governments Summit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">He was warmly received at the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport by the President of Zambia, Mr Hakainde Hichilema, and his wife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines 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><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The visit underscores President Mahama&#8217;s commitment to advancing his&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602050253.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>PRESIDENT John Dramani Mahama yesterday arrived in Lusaka, Zambia, for a three-day State Visit. The President, who is accompanied by his wife, Mrs Lordina Mahama, arrived from Dubai after participating in the World Governments Summit. He was warmly received at the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport by the President of Zambia, Mr Hakainde Hichilema, and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":223009,"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":[19616,258,256,8692,7780,257,2450,254,6017,6250,4709,881],"class_list":["post-223008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-3day","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrives","tag-mahama","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-visit","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\/223008","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=223008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}