{"id":223304,"date":"2026-02-09T12:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/africa-all-of-africa-today-february-9-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T12:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:22:15","slug":"africa-all-of-africa-today-february-9-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/africa-all-of-africa-today-february-9-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: All of Africa Today &#8211; February 9, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\"><strong>Tinubu to Make First Nigerian State Visit to UK in 37 Years<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"131\">King Charles III and Queen Camilla <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602090059.html\" rel=\"noopener\">invited<\/a> Nigerian President Bola Tinubu to a state visit.\u00a0The visit, which the Nigerian leader has accepted, will be the first state visit by a Nigerian leader to the UK in 37 years. The last state visit occurred in 1989 when Gen Ibrahim Babangida met Queen Elizabeth II. Unlike regular official trips, state visits involve full royal protocol and are used to strengthen diplomatic ties. Tinubu, who took&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602090101.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>\u00a0 Tinubu to Make First Nigerian State Visit to UK in 37 Years King Charles III and Queen Camilla invited Nigerian President Bola Tinubu to a state visit.\u00a0The visit, which the Nigerian leader has accepted, will be the first state visit by a Nigerian leader to the UK in 37 years. The last state visit [&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":[258,256,5742,257,254,6637,421],"class_list":["post-223304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-february","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-today","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223304","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=223304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223304\/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=223304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}