{"id":240885,"date":"2026-08-11T19:58:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-all-of-africa-today-august-11-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T19:58:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:58:04","slug":"africa-all-of-africa-today-august-11-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-all-of-africa-today-august-11-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: All of Africa Today &#8211; August 11, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><strong>Zambia Election Set for Closely Fought Opposition Battle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"106\">Zambia&#8217;s 13 August<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608110055.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> election<\/a> has become a closely contested battle between the ruling United Party for National Development and the Tonse-Pamodzi opposition alliance, led by newcomer Brian Mundubile and backed by former Patriotic Front structures. The election is expected to test the opposition&#8217;s strength and serve as a referendum on President Hakainde Hichilema&#8217;s record. The government has made progress on debt restructuring, economic growth&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608110119.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Zambia Election Set for Closely Fought Opposition Battle Zambia&#8217;s 13 August election has become a closely contested battle between the ruling United Party for National Development and the Tonse-Pamodzi opposition alliance, led by newcomer Brian Mundubile and backed by former Patriotic Front structures. The election is expected to test the opposition&#8217;s strength and serve as [&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":[825],"tags":[258,256,8060,257,254,6637,881],"class_list":["post-240885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-august","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-today","tag-zambia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240885","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=240885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240885\/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=240885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}