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Hakainde Hichilema won over 60% of the vote in the first round of Zambia’s presidential election, which also saw authorities launch raids against leading opposition figures on election night.<\/em><\/p>\n Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema<\/a>\u00a0has secured another 5-year term, the country’s election commission announced early on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Hichilema \u2014\u00a0 who was widely expected to win \u2014\u00a0 secured 61.4% of the 5 million votes cast in the presidential race held last Thursday<\/a>, while his main election rival Brian…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Hakainde Hichilema won over 60% of the vote in the first round of Zambia’s presidential election, which also saw authorities launch raids against leading opposition figures on election night. Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema\u00a0has secured another 5-year term, the country’s election commission announced early on Tuesday. Hichilema \u2014\u00a0 who was widely expected to win \u2014\u00a0 secured […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":242024,"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\/00671421:c73f630e6e564be669cd6a070bba1d5d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,6976,257,6438,254,7557,6552,881,8982],"class_list":["post-242023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-hichilema","tag-news","tag-presidential","tag-south-africa-today","tag-term","tag-wins","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambias"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671421:c73f630e6e564be669cd6a070bba1d5d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242023","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=242023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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