{"id":232150,"date":"2026-05-02T15:58:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-press-statement-by-mr-thabo-kawana-permanent-secretary-ministry-of-information-and-media-on-the-postponement-of-the-rightscon-2026-summit\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T15:58:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:58:55","slug":"zambia-press-statement-by-mr-thabo-kawana-permanent-secretary-ministry-of-information-and-media-on-the-postponement-of-the-rightscon-2026-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-press-statement-by-mr-thabo-kawana-permanent-secretary-ministry-of-information-and-media-on-the-postponement-of-the-rightscon-2026-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Press Statement by Mr Thabo Kawana, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and Media on the Postponement of the RightsCon 2026 Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">Lusaka \u2014 Following the announcement by Honourable Felix Mutati, Minister of Technology and Science on 28th April 2026, regarding the postponement of the RightsCon Summit 2026, which was scheduled to take place in Lusaka from 5th to 8th May 2026, the Government of the Republic of Zambia wishes to provide further clarification on this decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">The postponement was necessitated by the need for comprehensive disclosure of critical information relating to key thematic issues proposed for discussion&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605010085.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>Lusaka \u2014 Following the announcement by Honourable Felix Mutati, Minister of Technology and Science on 28th April 2026, regarding the postponement of the RightsCon Summit 2026, which was scheduled to take place in Lusaka from 5th to 8th May 2026, the Government of the Republic of Zambia wishes to provide further clarification on this decision. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":232151,"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\/00580888:21b0620c5289dc30f025b967fa655a13:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,422,31745,4959,6857,257,15799,13763,6010,54306,5932,254,6065,5757,33404,4709,881],"class_list":["post-232150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-information","tag-kawana","tag-media","tag-ministry","tag-news","tag-permanent","tag-postponement","tag-press","tag-rightscon","tag-secretary","tag-south-africa-today","tag-statement","tag-summit","tag-thabo","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00580888:21b0620c5289dc30f025b967fa655a13:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232150","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=232150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}