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The Zambian government has said that it has\u00a0 taken possession<\/a> \u00a0of the body of former president Edgar Lungu, who died in South Africa 10 months ago, against the wishes of the family.<\/p>\n The dispute stems from a long-running feud between Lungu and his successor, Hakainde Hichilema.<\/p>\n The government has maintained that as a former head of state, he should be honoured in the country and buried alongside his predecessors in the special presidential burial ground in the capital, Lusaka. However, the family…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The Zambian government has said that it has\u00a0 taken possession \u00a0of the body of former president Edgar Lungu, who died in South Africa 10 months ago, against the wishes of the family. The dispute stems from a long-running feud between Lungu and his successor, Hakainde Hichilema. The government has maintained that as a former head […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":231223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660842:7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,7978,5203,4357,8524,257,2450,19067,254,13352,881,4396],"class_list":["post-231222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-body","tag-family","tag-govt","tag-lungus","tag-news","tag-president","tag-repatriate","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wishes","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambian"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660842:7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231222","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=231222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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